/PRNewswire/ The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in an effort to provide assistance to under-resourced inventors and small businesses will.
Ecuadorian law firm Spingarn has announced the incorporation of Byron Robayo as a partner, and who will lead the firm’s intellectual property (IP) practice.
TAGUIG CITY, May 9 A total of 480 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have gained expert insights on global intellectual property (IP) protection from the IP Office of the Philippines’ (IPOPHL) recent webinars on the Madrid System and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), enabling them to develop strategies that will ensure their competitiveness when expanding globally.
The Madrid System and the PCT are international application systems, respectively for trademarks and patents, that allow for a single filing for registration and grant in multiple countries that are contracting parties to the systems.
The webinars, jointly organized with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), have reached a combined viewing of 2,500 on Facebook as of writing.
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The government has revised the rules of procedures for intellectual property rights (IPR) cases to further speed up resolution of disputes and sustain the country’s robust innovative economy.
The adoption of the 2020 Revised Rules of IPR Cases was a collaborative effort among private sector stakeholders and various government agencies led by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL), the Supreme Court, and the Department of Trade and Industry, among others.
IPOPHL Director-General Rowel Barba cited the importance of the 2020 Revised IPR Rules in ensuring an effective and speedy adjudication of IP rights cases stressing the IPR is an essential pillar in creating an environment that fosters innovation, promotes investments and entrepreneurship.