The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines has secured support from Philippine Rice Research Center for its strategic ‘end-to-end’ support program for IP creators—the ‘Mind2Market’ program.
The two agencies signed a memorandum of understanding on April 26 during the IP Convergence forum before 200 attendees from the intellectual property community.
Philrice is the first government agency to join the Mind2Market Program, essentially agreeing to be part of the official network of agencies to support IP owners through IP creation, IP protection, and IP utilization.
“The Mind2Market program spans support throughout the full intellectual property cycle, from creation to utilization [commercialization]. We made a pledge to hand-hold the IP creators from assisting them at that crucial cross-over through what the IP community calls ‘the valley of death’ between creation, protection and utilization,” said IPOPhl documentation, information and technology transfer bureau director Mary Grace Cruz-Yap.
“But no one agency can tackle all the needs of an intellectual property owner, and that’s why we’re building a network of government agencies to shepherd IP owners through the IP life cycle,” said Yap.
The flagship program operates on inter-agency cooperation, allowing government agencies to come in and lend their agency-specific support in any of the three stages.
