Republic of the Philippines

TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION AND PROMOTION INSTITUTEDepartment of Science and Technology

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR INVENTIONSINVENTIONS

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Building IPR capacity through various

programs of assistance to Filipino inventors

for their inventions.

• eligibility for assistance is based on merits of inventions

• women avail of assistance under same terms as those of their male counterpart

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST)

• provides central direction, leadership and

coordination of all science and technology

activities in the country

• formulates S&T policies and programs in support

of national development priorities

• exercises supervision over the Technology

Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI)

BACKGROUND

Technology Application and Promotion

Institute (TAPI)

• promotes commercialization of technologies

• implements RA No. 7459, Inventors and

Inventions Incentives Act

BACKGROUND

RA NO. 7459, Inventors and Invention

Incentives Act

….. the Government shall provide a program to set

up a climate conducive to invention and innovation,

give encouragement and support to inventors who

are creative and resourceful, as well as imbued with

a deep sense of nationalism, and maximize the

capability and productivity of inventors through

incentives and other forms of assistance and

support.

ASSISTANCE ON INVENTIONS

• Around 23 patent and utility model registrations obtained in behalf of 42 women

provides assistance in patenting and utility model registration to encourage creative and inventive activities and investments in R&D

Intellectual Property Rights Assistance Program

Assistance Programs

providing financial support for the fabrication of models for testing, demonstration and promotion

Prototype Development

Assistance Programs

• provides financial assistance for laboratory testing analyses

• endorses inventors/technologists/researchers request for access to laboratory facilities of RDIs, other government offices, TAPI accredited test laboratories

Testing Assistance

Assistance Programs

Objective:• establish economic and technical viability of selected

inventions and utility models, thus, enhancing invention’s/utility model’s commerciability

provides financial/technical assistance for limited production of an invention or a utility model product for test marketing purposes

Pilot Plant Assistance

Assistance Programs

• Publication of promotional materials for patented and patent-pending inventions covering mainly printing costs of pre-determined number of publication/ promotion materials (brochures, leaflets, flyers, posters and labeled packages)

Promotion and Publication

Assistance Programs

Features

• exhibition of commercialized inventions

• product demo/ launching

• seminars/ workshops/ fora

• National Invention Contest (focal activity)

National Inventors’ Week Celebration

Assistance Programs

Invention Contest

Categories:

1. Invention (Tuklas Award)2. Utility Model3. Industrial Design4. Creative Research5. Sibol Award (Student Creative Research)

Winners in the invention contest are granted cash awards /medals/ certificates

Assistance Programs

• from 2001 to 2006, four (4) winners are women, one of them won several times through these years

• WIPO provides Gold Medals, cash and certificates for first prize winners in Inventions (Tuklas Award) and Student Creative Research (Sibol Award) – high school and college levels

Invention Contest

Assistance Programs

• promotion/ marketing of Filipino invention products in tie-up with other government agencies, private sector and business associations covering mainly basic cost of participation and/or promo collaterals

Exhibit/ Fair

Assistance Programs

TAPI-DOST facilitates evaluation and processing of requests for tax/duty exemption of patented inventions:

• exemption from payment of license fees, permit fees and other business taxes

• exemption from all kinds of taxes during the first ten (10) years from date of first sale

• exemption from custom duties, import charges for raw materials, equipment needed in manufacture of technologies/ inventions.

Tax/Duty Exemption Assistance

RA 7459, “Inventors and Invention Incentives Act of the Philippines”

Assistance Programs

• to guarantee the loan assistance of government banks for Filipino inventions

• maximum guarantee coverage of P200,000

Invention Guarantee Fund

Assistance Programs

RA No. 7459, “Inventors and Invention Incentives

Act of the Philippines”

Travel Assistance

• support for participation in international invention contests/ exhibitions

• limited to winners in the National Invention Contest

Assistance Programs

Training

• provides training to enhance capabilities of inventors in commercializing/ marketing their inventions

• covers enhancement of entrepreneurial and technical skills

Assistance Programs

Inventschool

• Conduct of invent school program (ISP) in private and public schools in cooperation with the inventors’ groups, LGUs and NGOs to stimulate students’ interest for creativity and inventiveness

Assistance Programs

SUPPORT TO INVENTORS ORGANIZATION

• 18 inventors organizations

- of these, 5 are women inventors organizations

- some members of women inventors organizations are also members of other organizations

funding support for organization inventor/invention related activities

2008 Women Organizations Projects Supported by TAPI-DOST

1. Women Inventors Association of the Philippines, Inc. (WIAPI)

• Publication and dissemination of the Directory of the Creative Women Researchers and Patent Holders from 1958-2005

- the database will be updated to include abstracts of inventions and researches

• Enhancing Creative and Innovative Body and Mind Activities for a healthy, Productive and Meaningful Life through Reach Out and Read and Body Wellness Program

- a series of seminars focus on the importance of a “sound mind”

• Invent School Program Activities in Baseco, Tondo and Payatas Areas

- to train selected out-of-school-youths in these depressed areas to become “invent-trepreneurs”

2008 Women Organizations Projects Supported by TAPI-DOST

Women Organization Projects Supported by TAPI-DOST

2. Women in Science and Technology Development Foundation, Inc. (WISTDF)

• Mentoring Youth Through Inventiveness and Entrepreneurship System (MY TIES)

- for public awareness of the contribution and impact of Filipino inventions to health

and wealth of the country and the world

- to encourage the youth to invent and innovate to help ensure their welfare and that of the nation.