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APPENDIX 14

PROTECTING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES OF
CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY

I. Rationale

Republic Act No. 8293, otherwise known as the Intellectual Property
Code of the Philippines, states that:

“The State recognizes that an effective intellectual and industrial
property system is vital to the development of domestic and creative activity,
facilitates transfers of technology, attracts foreign investments, and ensures
market access for our products. It shall protect and secure the exclusive
rights of scientist, inventors, artists and other gifted citizens to their
intellectual property and creations, particularly when beneficial to the
people.”

With the various intellectual properties (IP’s) developed in the
university such as the Aguinaldo Blend Coffee, processed products, design
for biogas digester and innumerable research outputs being presented for
public consumption, a few of them were able to acquire protection. The
biogas digester was just recently granted a patent, while research
outputs/publications have been presented without copyright protection,
except for some that were able to acquire ISBN registration from the
National Library. Therefore, the University must develop a system for
protecting economically viable intellectual properties to maximize gains that
could finance more researches in the future.

II. Definition of Terms

“Copyright” is the protection extended to expressions and not to
ideas, procedures, and methods of operations or mathematical concepts as
such. Such expressions may be in the forms of literary, scholarly, scientific
and artistic works.

“Intellectual Property or IP” is an asset that possesses commercial
value which can be exploited to generate revenue. IP value lies in its
utilization, not existence.

“Intellectual Property Rights” or “IPR” refers to the entitlement and
enjoyment of the attributes of ownership over intellectual properties. IPR
consists of: a) Copyright and related rights; b) Trademarks and Service
Marks; c) Geographic Indications; d) Industrial Designs; e) Patents; f)
Layout-Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits; and g) Protection of

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