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Undisclosed Information. 1 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. 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, Education and Training
Continuing Services

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