IPOPHL

With the expected pick-up in recording sales, the musician must surely be having a windfall in royalties this time of the year.

The amount of goods seized over the nine-month period already represents an 840-percent increase over the seizures of the National Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR) during the same period in 2017.

What basically is the difference between a patent and a trademark?

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) held a dialogue with local start-ups to encourage them to prioritize intellectual property protection.

The IPOPHL has launched the new IPOPHL Patent Search using the WIPO Publish platform, making available for public search all granted invention, as well as published and registered utility models, and industrial design applications.

An increase in trademark filings has notably driven up applications for intellectual property protection in the first quarter of 2018.

In Luzon, total IP filings -- copyright deposits, patent filings, and trademark filings -- have amounted to 430 filings, taking up 38 % of all IP filings in the 11 operational IPSOs for the first quarter 2018.

Not a lot of Filipinos are aware that a few slang words in our local language have been registered as trademarks at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL).

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) will inaugurate its satellite office in Zamboanga on August 4 -- its fourth office in Mindanao.

Through the program, MSMEs can save up to P3,000 from waived basic filing, color claims, and first publication fees.