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PROGRAM PERFORMANCE PROFILE

(Topographies) of Integrated Circuits; and g) Protection of Undisclosed
Information. IPR shall likewise include plant varieties and animal breeds.
1
“Patent’ is a grant issued by the Philippine government giving an
inventor the right to exclude others from making, using, setting, or importing
the product of his invention within the Philippines in exchange of his
patentable information or disclosure.

“Patentable inventions” means any technical solution of a problem in
any field of human activity which is new, involves an inventive step and is
industrially applicable, which may be, or may related to a product, or process,
or an improvement of any of the foregoing.
2

“Plant variety” means a plant grouping within a single botanical taxon
of the lowest known rank which can be defined by the expression of the
characteristics resulting from a given genotype, or combination of genotypes,
distinguished from any other plant groupings by the expression of at least one
characteristic and considered as a unit with regard to the suitability for being
propagated unchanged. A variety may be represented by seed, transplants,
plants, tubers, and tissue culture plantlets.

“Prior art” Everything made available to the public by means of a
written or oral disclosure, by use, or in any other way, before the filing date or
the priority date of the application claiming the invention. Prior use which is
not present in the Philippines, even if widespread in a foreign country, cannot
form part of the prior art if such prior use is not disclosed in printed
documents or in any tangible form.

III. Objective

To establish a system protecting the intellectual properties (IP’s) or
results/products generated through researches conducted in the university.

IV. Strategy

The University shall establish an IPR Office that covers all intellectual
property protection activities and provide trainings/seminars to researchers to
increase awareness on IPR. The IPR Office will be divided in to two sections,
each having IPR Assistants, one for patentable IP’s and the other for
publishable IP’s.

The IPR Officer will work under the Office of the Vice-President for
Research, Extension, Continuing Education and Training Services (RECETS),

1 Section 4, R.A. 8293 (1998); TRIPS.
2 Section 21, R.A. 8293 (1998).

Area V: Research