DEFINITION OF TERMS

National Treatment

Most-Favored Nation
Treatment

Well-known Mark

DEFINITION
It is an incorporeal right which refers to creations of the mind such as inventions and artistic works, and symbols, names, images,
and designs used in commerce.
Any person who is a national or who is domiciled or has a real and effective industrial establishment in a country which is a party
to any convention, treaty or agreement relating to intellectual property rights or the repression of unfair competition, to which the
Philippines is also a party, or extends reciprocal right to nationals of the Philippines by law, shall be entitled to benefits to the
extent necessary to give effect to any provision of such convention, treaty or reciprocal law, in addition to the rights to which any
owner of an intellectual property right is other entitle by this act.
Any condition, requirement, penalty or any similar burden imposed by the law of a foreign country on a Philippine National
seeking protection of intellectual property rights in that country, shall reciprocally be enforceable upon nationals of said country,
within Philippine jurisdiction.
An application for registration of a mark filed in the Philippines by a person referred in Sec. 3, and who previously duly filed an
application for registration of the same mark in one or those countries, shall be considered as filed as for the day the application
was first filed in the foreign country.
It is the reproduction of the code and translation of the forms of the computer program to achieve the inter-operability of an
independently created computer program with other programs.
Is any composition of lines or colors or any three-dimensional form, whether or not associated with lines or colors.
Technology Transfer Arrangement are contracts or agreements involving the transfer of systematic knowledge for the
manufacture of a product, the application of a process, or the rendering of a service, including the management contracts, and the
transfer, assignment or licensing of all forms of intellectual property rights, including licensing of computer software except
computer software developed for the mass market.
Each WTO member shall accord to the nationals of other members treatment no less favorable than that which it accords its own
nationals with regard to the protection of intellectual property.
With regard to the protection of intellectual property, any advantage, favor, privilege or immunity granted by a member to the
nationals of any other country shall be accorded immediately and unconditionally to the nationals of all other members.
Is one which a competent authority of the Philippines has designated to be well-known internationally and in the Philippines.

Unfair Competition

Is the use by a person of deception or any other means contrary to good faith by which he passes off the goods manufactured by him.

Intellectual Property

Reciprocity

Reverse Reciprocity
Priority Right
Decompilation

Industrial Design

Technology Transfer
Arrangement