IPOPHL

January 1st is celebrated in many parts of the world as Public Domain Day, or the day when copyright protection lapses on select works and officially enter the public domain.

The Intellectual Property Office (IPOPHL) should have the power to disable access to websites that are being used to infringe on copyrights or facilitate copyright infringement, according to Kabayan party-list representative Ron P. Salo, who is pushing for the passage of House Bill 8001.

With the accession, the Philippines agrees to provide some exceptions and limitations to rules in its national copyright law to allow converting published works in formats accessible to the blind, visually impaired, and otherwise print disabled persons (VIPs).

Whether you?re gearing up for #OneBigFight or suiting up for #UPFight, remember that university logos or slogans may be trademarks owned by your schools, so make or sell your university-branded merchandise with caution.

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.