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, Inventors and Invention

Incentives Act

….. 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 model registrations

obtained in behalf of 42 women
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. Invention (Tuklas Award)

2. Utility Model
3. Industrial Design
4. Creative Research
5. 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 international

invention contests/ exhibitions

• 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.