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                   Undisclosed  Information.   IPR  shall  likewise  include  plant  varieties  and
                   animal breeds.

                          “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.
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                          “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

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