UM Bags 2023 Platinum Award from the Intellectual Property Office

The University of Mindanao bags 2023 Platinum Award from the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL). The Platinum Award is the Highest Category Award given to an Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO). The ITSO program seeks to foster creation of intellectual property (IP) in the academe and research sectors, particularly in invention and utility models, to increase the national innovative output and to push the presence of Filipino inventions in the international patent system.

The University of Mindanao is represented by its ITSO Manager Engr. Francis Louise Yap attended this year’s ITSO President’s Summit, on 18 March 2024, at Dusit Hotel, Makati with the theme, “𝘐𝘛𝘚𝘖: 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.”

A keynote message was given by Atty. Rowel S. Barba, Director General of IPOPHL and Dr. Napoleon K. Juanillo, Assistant Secretary for Technology Transfer, Communication and Commercialization of the Department of Science and Technology. The event also featured ITSO updates on new incentives and revised clustering, including a talk on ITSO best practices.

The Presidents’ Summit also celebrated and recognized achievements by member ITSOs fulfilling the 2023 ITSO 2.0 Clustering deliverables, wherein the University of Mindanao Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO) was given a distinction—the Platinum Award—for its exemplary implementation of:

• 𝟮𝟰 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵

• 𝟭𝟮 𝗜𝗣 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘀

• 𝟳 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

• 𝟮 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘀

• 𝟭 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿;

• and 𝟭 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱

This award is a testament to the University’s dedication to upholding the importance of intellectual property protection and technology transfer for the benefit of the inventor. Further, the outputs in the ITSO are geared toward responding to the UN-SDG Nos. 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).