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APPENDIX 14

PROTECTING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES
OF CAVITESTATEUNIVERSITY

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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