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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.
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Section 21, R.A. 8293 (1998).
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