The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) will inaugurate its satellite office in Zamboanga on August 4 -- its fourth office in Mindanao.
Per type of good, cigarettes and cigarette production paraphernalia took the top spot in value, estimated to be worth P5 billion, followed by handbags and wallets at P137 million, then optical media at P103 million.
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.
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 National Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR) has issued a warning to vendors in Greenhills Shopping Center to stop selling fake and counterfeit goods and comply with intellectual property-related laws.
