BusinessWorld
April 4, 2021 | 8:08 pm
THE PHILIPPINE intellectual property (IP) office has taken on the chairmanship of an ASEAN IP group developing unified regional trademark, patent, and industrial design systems.
Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) Director General Rowel S. Barba officially assumed leadership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation (AWGIPC) on March 25, the agency said in a statement Sunday.
More than 80% of the group’s 2016-2025 action plan is completed, IPOPHL said.
Until his chairmanship ends in 2023, Mr. Barba is in charge of leading the group’s remaining work, including putting up unified regional systems on trademark, patents, and industrial designs.