GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR
INVENTIONS
- PHILIPPINES-
Republic of the Philippines
TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION AND PROMOTION INSTITUTE
Department of Science and Technology
INTRODUCTION
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
BACKGROUND
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
ASSISTANCE ON INVENTIONS
RA
NO. 7459,
Incentives Act
…..
Inventors
and
Invention
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 Programs
Intellectual Property Rights Assistance
Program
provides assistance in patenting and
utility model registration to encourage
creative and inventive activities and
investments in R&D
•
Around 23 patent and utility
obtained in behalf of 42 women
model
registrations
Assistance Programs
Prototype Development
providing financial support for the
fabrication of models for testing,
demonstration and promotion
Assistance Programs
Testing Assistance
•
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
Assistance Programs
Pilot Plant Assistance
provides financial/technical assistance for
limited production of an invention or a
utility model product for test marketing
purposes
Objective:
• establish economic and technical viability of selected
inventions and utility models, thus, enhancing
invention’s/utility model’s commerciability
Assistance Programs
Promotion and Publication
• 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)
Assistance Programs
National Inventors’ Week Celebration
Features
• exhibition of commercialized inventions
• product demo/ launching
• seminars/ workshops/ fora
• National Invention Contest (focal activity)
Assistance Programs
Invention Contest
Categories:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Invention (Tuklas Award)
Utility Model
Industrial Design
Creative Research
Sibol Award
(Student Creative Research)
Winners in the invention contest are granted cash awards /
medals/ certificates
Assistance Programs
Invention Contest
• 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
Assistance Programs
Exhibit/ Fair
• 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
Assistance Programs
RA 7459, “Inventors and Invention Incentives Act of
the Philippines”
Tax/Duty Exemption Assistance
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.
Assistance Programs
RA No. 7459, “Inventors and Invention Incentives
Act of the Philippines”
Invention Guarantee Fund
•
to guarantee the loan assistance of government
banks for Filipino inventions
•
maximum guarantee coverage of P200,000
Assistance Programs
Travel Assistance
•
support for participation in
invention contests/ exhibitions
international
•
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
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
2008 Women Organizations Projects Supported
by TAPI-DOST
•
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”
• 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”
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.