The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) said it has proposed a work plan to tackle long-standing counterfeit activities in the Greenhills Shopping Center -- once again the lone Philippine market cited in the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) 2022 Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy.
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) on Monday, Jan. 16, committed to significantly curb counterfeiting and piracy activities in the local markets...
Bulk of the IP filings for the first nine months of the year were trademarks, with a total of 31,665 applications. Compared to the previous year, trademark filings increased by 5.6 percent.
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) said the top source for intellectual property violations was the online space, particularly on Facebook, other websites, Shopee, Instagram, and Lazada.
Intellectual property filings in the first half of the year reached 23,410, higher by 1.6 percent in the same period last year at 23,048 filings. These include registration of patents, trademarks, utility models and industrial design.
Facebook remained at the center of alleged IP violations, as shown in 87 records focused online. It was followed by Shopee with 27 reports or complaints; Lazada with 10; Instagram with four; and Carousell with two.
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) said IP filings from January to December 2021 grew 11.6 percent year-on-year (YOY) to a total of 46,496, recovering significantly from the 2020 drop, as lighter quarantine restrictions last year reignited business and IP-related activities.
Emphasizing the adoption of the “Dominancy Test” and the abandonment of the “Holistic Test” in evaluating trademark resemblance, the Supreme Court (SC) vote unanimously to reject the “kolin” trademark application filed by Kolin Philippines International, Inc. (KPII) for its television and DVD players.
The Department of Trade and Industry - Bureau of Philippine Standards (DTI-BPS) has called on commercial training centers to “cease reproducing -- digitally or in print -- copies of standards developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), including those adopted as Philippine National Standards (PNS), as such practice constitutes copyright infringement”.
