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Intellectual property (IP) registration climbed by 3.7 percent to 48,259 submissions in 2022 from 46,558 applications in 2021, according to the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL).

Given that the economy is still recuperating from the epidemic, IPOPHL stated in a statement that the number of IP submissions last year was a record high for the organization.

With 47,328 filings in 2019, IP registration in 2022 is also 2 percent greater than it was in the pre-pandemic period.

For IP protection, utility models, industrial designs, patents, and trademarks can be registered.

According to IPOPHL Director General Rowel Barba, “the substantial uptake in 2022 IP filings illustrates how competitive firms are in grasping chances in the more buoyant economy and the digitalization of business relations as increased by the epidemic.”

41,235 trademark applications were filed in 2022, a 4 percent increase from the prior year, making up the bulk of all filings. The surge in the introduction of new brands is reflected in trademark filings.

Residents submitted 61 percent of the total number of trademark applications, while non-residents submitted 39 percent.

Pharmaceutical, health, and cosmetic products accounted for 18.4 percent of all trademark filings, the bulk of which were related to them.

Agriculture-related goods and services were next, accounting for 16.6% of filings, then scientific research, information, and communication technology, which accounted for 14.9 percent of filings.

Contrarily, the number of patent applications rose by 9.3% to 4,403. Of these applications, 3,918, or 89%, were submitted by non-residents, while 485, or 11%, were submitted by residents.

Pharmaceuticals made up the majority of the patent applications, accounting for 28.9% of the total. 12.1 percent of the applications were for organic fine chemistry, and 8.3 percent were for digital communications.

Industrial design (ID) and utility model (UM) fills, meanwhile, both modestly decreased year over year. UM, filings decreased from 1,615 to 1,386 while ID registration decreased from 1,265 to 1,235.

Moreover, IPOPHL reported a 73 percent increase in copyright registrations from 2,141 in 2021 to 3,706 in 2022.

The majority of copyright registrations come from books, pamphlets, articles, e-books, audiobooks, comics, novels, and other writings (36%) followed by literary, scholarly, scientific, and creative works (19.7%%) and plans for works of art, models for works of art, and architectural works (8.6 percent).

“More Filipinos are starting to recognize the competitive benefit of maintaining some level of control over their most cherished assets: their intellectual property (IP). Not in spite of the pandemic and other economic and environmental issues we face, but because of them, more companies and entrepreneurs are incorporating intellectual property into their success plans, according to Barba.

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