Philippines Trademark Registration Process

Philippines Profile

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is a sovereign island nation located in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia. The capital of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City. The Philippines is bordered by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, the Celebes Sea to the southwest, Palau to the east, Vietnam to the west, Malaysia and Indonesia to the south, and China to the north.

Philippine Intellectual Property Legal System

• The Philippine Intellectual Property Code
• Rules and Regulations for Trade Marks, Service Marks, Trade Names and Marks or Seal Containers
• Amendments to the Implementing Rules and Regulations for Patents, Utility Models and Industrial Designs
• "Vegetation Diversity Protection Law"

International Organization/Agreement

• "Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization"
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Patent Cooperation Treaty
• Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
• WIPO Copyright Treaty
• WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
• Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure