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THE gradual reopening of the economy has prompted a surge in patent applications filed at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL); the agency noted applications reached an all-time high in 2021. IPOPHL said it processed a total of 45 outbound applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) System…

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) jumped to 9th place in the World Trademark Review’s (WTR) 2021 IP (intellectual property) Office Innovation Ranking from 24th in the previous year, making the Philippines the only developing country to have an IP office in the top 10 out o

TAGUIG CITY, May 9 --  A total of 480 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have gained expert insights on global intellectual property (IP) protection from the IP Office of the Philippines’ (IPOPHL) recent webinars on the Madrid System and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), enabling them to develop strategies that will ensure their competitiveness when expanding globally.  The Madrid System and the PCT are international application systems, respectively for trademarks and patents, that allow for a single filing for registration and grant in multiple countries that are contracting...

TAGUIG CITY, March 11 -- The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has extended until Dec. 31, 2021 its Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Filing Assistance Program to benefit more inventors exploring opportunities in global markets. The PCT is a cost-efficient international filing system which allows single-application for protection of invention patents or utility models (UMs) in some or in all of PCT’s 153 contracting states. “As we encourage our inventors to think global, we must equip them with the necessary tools to make this leap. IPOPHL’s PCT Filing Assistance Pr...