WIPO director-general Francis Gurry celebrated World Intellectual Property Day in the Philippines -- a first in the 38 years of relations of the Philippines and WIPO.
Buhay party-list rep. Lito Atienza called ?counterproductive? the provision restricting Philippine telecommunications to entities at least 60 percent held by Filipinos.
Two years after the country?s biggest government data breach hit global headlines, non-government organization Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) has released a briefing paper that proposes some major takeaways and action points -- both on the part of government and the private sector.
IPOPHL director-general Josephine R. Santiago said that it is important for lawyers to be updated in dynamic and continuously changing fields such as IP law.
The rehabilitation of Marawi City and Boracay can be the two pilot areas of a new government project that will use drones, satellite imaging, and other cutting-edge technology that will monitor the progress of big-ticket infrastructure projects, Senator Ralph Recto said.
Beleaguered social media giant Facebook has tapped Rappler and Vera Files as local partners for its third-party fact-checking program in the Philippines.
DOST secretary Fortunato Dela Pena wants to increase the number of intellectual property (IP) registration in the country, saying there is "low IP registration" in the field of research and development (R&D).
President Rodrigo R. Duterte has ordered the creation of an oversight committee that would assist the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) for the entry of the third major telecommunications player in the country.