GATEWAY Gallery starts this year’s
KulturaSerye
with the webinar “ARTHENTICITY: Copyright and Responsible Art-Making,”
with attorney Exequiel Valerio of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines. The webinar will present the current copyright landscape, define it, its processes and mechanisms. It will also discuss current and pending laws that will cover the issue of copyright. The webinar is ideal for creators, designers, teachers, students, and art enthusiasts to gain a better understanding of copyright laws in the country in order to protect their works. It is co-presented by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines and the J. Amado Araneta Foundation. The webinar will be streamed live free on Feb. 20, 2 to 3:30 p.m., at the Gateway Gallery Facebook Page (GatewayGalleryPH). The webinar is open to the public and does not require pre-registration. Viewers will also get an electronic certificate by filling up an online feedback form at the end of the ta
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PASAY CITY, Feb. 11 In a joint effort to fight off proliferation of counterfeit goods, Bureau of Customs-NAIA, Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines, and various brand owners of luxury goods, discussed during the meeting held on February 10, 2021 in Bureau of Customs NAIA in Pasay City, possible measures to further intensify border protection against rampant intellectual property right violations.
Further, IPOPHIL Director General, Atty. Rowel S. Barba, District Collector Carmelita M. Talusan and the representatives of Christian Dior, Nike, Converse, Hermes, Chanel, Fendi, Maison Goyard, Michael Kors, Alexander Mcqueen, and Swarovski personally inspected the seized and forfeited luxury goods intercepted by BOC-NAIA last 2020 in Paircargo to verify their genuineness and authenticity.
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THE Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) said legislators preparing the Intellectual Property Code must increase protections for IP in order to provide a favorable environment for innovation, including the development of startups.
In a hearing at the House of Representatives Thursday, IPOPHL Director-General Rowel S. Barba asked legislators to “create an enabling environment that will promote and steer creativity, innovation, and development for not only large companies but also for micro, small, medium enterprises, including startups.”
The House Committee on Trade and Industry was evaluating House Bills No. 1597 and 8062 at the hearing.
The bills call for the amendment of intellectual property law, which Mr. Barba said is needed to shorten the Philippine economy’s digitization transition.
TAGUIG CITY, Jaan. 30 For the first time since its establishment in 1998, filings at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) were down across all types of intellectual property (IP) as the COVID-19 pandemic had brought about a wait-and-see situation for many innovators and creators.
From January to December 2020, applications for trademarks contracted by 10% year-on-year to a total of 35,274 and patents, by 9% to 3,648.
Utility model filings took the biggest hit, plunging 45% to 1,235 year-on-year, followed by industrial design (23% to 1,259). Meanwhile, copyright deposits slipped 44% to 940.
2020 also marked as the steepest drop for trademark and utility model applications.
Resident trademark filers, which accounted for the bulk, declined 10% to 21,034. Filings from non-residents edged down 14% to 6,827 while those made under the international Madrid Protocol slid 8% to 7,413.
IP filings at IPOPHL down for first time due to Covid-19
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For the first time since its establishment in 1998, filings at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) were down across all types of intellectual property (IP) as the Covid-19 pandemic had brought about a wait-and-see situation for many innovators and creators.
From January to December 2020, applications for trademarks contracted by 10 percent year-on-year to a total of 35,274, and patents declined by 9 percent to 3,648.
“The sluggish flow of IP applications last year, which signify lower commitments to new intangible assets, was expected given the economic uncertainties subduing investment appetite,” IPOPHL director general Rowel Barba said in a statement Wednesday, January 27.