As part of its continuing efforts to improve the services it makes accessible to its clients, the Intellectual Property Office the Philippines (IPOPHL) will launch the Trademark Electronic Filing System (TM e-filing) in time for the celebration of the World IP Day on April 25, 2016 Monday at 9:00 o’clock in the morning at IPOPHL…
Intellectual Property Foundation (IPF) included to the list of Intellectual Property Office (IPPHL) database of venture capitalist from both government and private institutions that are willing to finance IP assets. Particularly those technologies that are generated by Universities. The database will be disseminated to IPPHL ITSO members and other relevant stakeholders. Atty. Ignacio S. Sapalo,…
IPOPHL Valued Partner in Grateful Appreciation for Sapalo Velez Bundang & Bulilan Law Offices (SVBB) Contribution as a TOP PATENT FILER for the Period of 2010-2014. Award given December 15, 2014 by Ricardo R. Blancaflor, Director General of Intellectual Property Office. Contact Us: Tel.: (632) 8911316-19; Fax: (632) 8911198; Email: info@sapalovelez.com
September 30, 2015 The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) now allows the submission of sequence listings in electronic format. In Memorandum Circular No. 15-003 (Circular) dated September 8, 2015, the IPOPHL issued guidelines for the submission of the sequence listing in electronic format through CD/DVD storage media for Inventions/utility model applications. The Circular…
The Romans introduced the concept of ownership of movable or immovable property but rarely recognized the exclusive rights of authors or inventors with respect to their creations or inventions. It took the Venetians to enact in 1474 the first statute providing for patents for inventions. England enacted the landmark Statute of Monopolies in 1624 which…
Ignacio S. Sapalo and Anne Mariae Celeste V. Jumadla of Sapalo Velez Bundang and Bulilan explain the misconceptions that drug companies have fostered as a result of the Cheaper Medicines Act. Six years have passed since the enactment of the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008 (Cheaper Medicines Act), or Republic Act…
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Anne Mariae Celeste V. Jumadla Sapalo Velez Bundang & Bulilan Trademark registration is based on ownership, and only the owner of the mark is entitled to register it. This has been the view of the Philippine Supreme Court in numerous cases. In its most recent decision, the Supreme Court upheld the registration of Harvard University…