September 2021 | International Law Alerts | Intellectual Property

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) named last Tuesday seven local intellectual property technologies as winning innovations at its Socially Relevant Technology (SRT) Contest 2021, which aims to promote sustainable packaging solutions and other clean technologies.

Nearly 160 participants from the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines’ Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO) network took advantage of the Online Paper B Training conducted by a team from the IP Management and Technology Transfer Division of the Documentation, Information, and Technology Transfer Bureau (DITTB) last month.

In celebration of the Philippines’ 20th year of accession to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) last August 17, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) reiterated its push to help local innovators explore foreign markets, touting the ease of filing through its PCT and related international services.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines, in partnership with the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD), recently held an online training workshop on intellectual property (IP) policy development, which benefitted about 106 participants from higher education institutions (HEIs).

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) and the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) are calling for innovators to join this year’s Alfredo M. Yao (AMY) Intellectual Property (IP) Awards, an annual joint event of IPOPHL and PCCI to recognize patented and patentable technologies that can contribute to economic development.

In line with its thrust of building partnerships with stakeholders, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Association of PAQE (Patent Agents Qualifying Examinations) Professionals, Inc. (APPI) to undertake cooperation activities on intellectual property (IP) awareness and education, capacity building and development of programs for the professionalization of patent agents.

Following the Philippines’ one-notch slide in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2021, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has called for stronger collaboration among government, industry and the academe, and urged for the formation of multi-sectoral task forces to address the country’s weak spots in the GII.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) is one of the leading government agencies taking the Philippines into the realm of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The agency proves this once again with its recent launch of the Business Intelligence (BI) v2.0 Online platform.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has committed to intensify work in deepening the country’s use of intellectual property (IP), emphasizing that this can hike creative outputs and industry-academe collaborations that lead to science and technology development.

As part of supporting the celebration of the Philippine Cinema Month, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) to intensify the protection of the intellectual property (IP) rights of the local film industry.

With the aim of further achieving efficiency in the mediation of cases, The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) issued Memorandum Circular No. 2021-023 promulgating supplemental guidelines to the Revised Rules on Mediation.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) and the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) are calling for innovators to join this year’s Alfredo M. Yao (AMY) Intellectual Property (IP) Awards, an annual joint event of IPOPHL and PCCI to recognize patented and patentable technologies that can contribute to economic development.

Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Monday said the proposed Philippine Creative Industries Development Act would help the country bounce back from the economic woes brought about by the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic.

The Bureau of Customs-Port of Manila (BOC-POM) has destroyed over PHP7.4 billion worth of seized counterfeit goods in Valenzuela City.

Criminal complaints were filed against two importers for supposedly smuggling PHP200 million worth of cigarettes into the country, the Bureau or Customs (BOC) said on Tuesday

The Bureau of Customs has filed criminal complaints against two importers for their failed attempt to smuggle fake cigarettes and other goods worth P115 million.