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IPOPHL launches new electronic filing system

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The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines launched a new electronic filing system known, as the IPOPHL eTMfile, as part of the World IP Day Celebrations that started on April 23 with the Celebration of the World Book and Copyright Day. 

The IPOPHL eTMfile allows the online filing of new trademark applications 24/7 and is linked to three different payment channels. With IPOPHL eTMfile, applicants and IP agents need not go to the IPOPHL to file trademark applications.   

“The IPOPHL began enhancing its IT systems with the deployment of the Industrial Property Automation System as the new back office system for patents and trademarks in 2012. Now, we are focusing on tools that will modernize electronic transactions with the IPOPHL, starting with the new IPOPHL eTMfile,” said IPOPhl director general Josephine Rima-Santiago.

IPOPHL eTMfile is one of the tools of IPOPHL to modernize e-services used by clients.  

The IPOPHL eTMfile is linked to two other tools—Asean TMclass, which makes the classification of goods and services much easier, and National IPOPHL TMview, allowing the generation of preliminary search reports that applicants may use as reference prior to filing.

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IPOPHL eTMfile also has another new feature which makes possible the submission of documents, such as the special power of attorney, request for priority examination and declaration of actual use, along with the online application. 

IPOPHL eTMfile is a system developed in collaboration with EU-Asean Project on IP Rights (ECAP III Phase II), a project being administered by the EU Intellectual Property Office.

“The IPOPHL eTMfile is the first of two eServices tools that we are deploying this semester. Next in the pipeline is the IPOPHL eDOCfile, an advanced electronic filing system for practically all types of trademark documents, including responses, powers of attorney, various types of declarations, assignments, and enables both the IPOPHL and the applicant to digitally sign documents submitted to the Office,” Santiago said. 

IPOPHL is the first Asean Office to deploy eTMfile. Itis also expected to be the first to go on production with the eDOCfile in June.

The IPOPHL eTMfile is accessible to all trademark stakeholders beginning today.served all three branches of the government. Before her election to the Senate, Miriam Santiago was a member of the Cabinet—as President Cory Aquino’s Secretary of Agrarian Reform—and a regional trial court judge. There would definitely be no OJT if Senator Santiago were to emerge as winner of the coming Presidential election. She would hit the ground running.

Likewise, there would be no OJT for Jejomar Binay if he were to win in the May 9 election. The Vice President, who is a lawyer, was a member of President Noy Aquino’s Cabinet—as head of the Cabinet-level agencies overseeing the housing and OFW sectors—and in that capacity was able to observe at first hand, and participate in, the making of national policies. Unfortunately, that advantage may come to nought because of the danger posed to Jejomar Binay’s candidacy by the spate of corruption-related issues raised against him in the Senate hearings on transactions entered into by the City of Makati during his incumbency as mayor. Were he to win the Presidency nonetheless, Jejomar Binay definitely would hit the ground running.

The third of the five Presidential candidates who would not need an OJT and who would be capable of hitting the ground running is Mar Roxas. A man with excellent professional credentials—a stint in a New York investment house after obtaining a degree from one of the best US business schools—the grandson and namesake of this country’s first post-World War II President has headed three major Cabinet departments (Interior and Local Government, Transportation and Communications and Trade and Industry)—is arguably the best prepared of the Presidential candidates for the job of directing this country’s affairs. Among the five, Mar Roxas has the widest exposure to, and the greatest experience with, the business sector. He definitely would hit the ground running if he were to win the election.

This brings me back to the title of this column. The Philippine economy cannot afford a Presidential winner who would have to undergo OJT. At this point the worst thing that could happen to the economy is getting a new Chief Executive who would have to undergo OJT. Like a Marine landing on a beach, he or she must be able to hit the ground running. The economy must not be put on hold while the new occupant of Malacanang struggles to learn the ropes.

E-mail: rudyromero777@yahoo.com

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