Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO)

Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO)

“We bring ideas to life by being a gateway for research & development collaboration among stakeholders, protecting quality intellectual properties, and catalyzing their utilization for the good of the global community.”

UST-ITSO protecting quality intellectual properties

UST-ITSO protecting quality intellectual properties

“We bring ideas to life by being a gateway for research & development collaboration among stakeholders, protecting quality intellectual properties, and catalyzing their utilization for the good of the global community.”

What constitutes

Intellectual Property?

Executive Assistant for Intellectual property and Research Assoc. Prof. Michael Jorge N. Peralta speaks about intellectual property and its protection.

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We live in a world of Intellectual Property

– Michael Jorge N. Peralta

WHO IS UST - Innovation and
Technology Support Office (ITSO)

The concept of Intellectual Property (IP) has already reached the consciousness of the University. In 2009, the University has promulgated its IP Policy and has established an IP Unit under the Office of the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs & Research (OVRAAR). The task of the unit is to (1) assist faculty members, support staff and students register any IP that they have developed through the course of their employment or study; (2) inform faculty members, support staff, and students about IP through an on-going IP education program; and (3) be the forerunner in identifying possible IPs for possible commercialization and exploitation. With the numerous researches produced by both faculty and students, there is a wealth of technology waiting to be registered and used for public consumption. IP ensures that as the technologies are being used, the inventors and owners of it are given due recognition by the law.

On November 25, 2010, the University signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with IPOPhl to host a patent library called an Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO). The IP Unit also functions as the ITSO. Last March 22, 2012, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), headed by Director-General Dr. Francis Gurry, and Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPhil), headed by Director General Atty. Ricardo Blancaflor awarded the University the Official ITSO Glass Emblem, which signifies that the University is now an ITSO.

Services

Offers IP advises on how to protect their intellectual property.

Assist clients in filing the different kinds of IPs at the IPOPhl.

Perform searches for a specific technology to establish its novelty and patentability.

Assist in drafting the patent specifications.

ITSO can conduct seminar-workshops on the basic intellectual property rights and hands-on training on patent searching.

IP Consultation

Offers IP advises to the faculty, students, support staff, or any client, who have developed an innovation, formulated a product, or written a creative work on how to protect their intellectual property.

  1. Download & accomplish the IP Research & Registry Form
  2. Attach the Document and Send an email to UST- ITSO

Assistance in IP Filing

Assist clients in filing the different kinds of IPs at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines.

  1. Download & accomplish the IP Research & Registry Form
  2. Attach the Document and Send an email to UST- ITSO

Patent Search

Perform searches for a specific technology to establish its novelty and patentability. It can likewise perform a state-of-art-search which looks into what patents already exist in a particular field of technology. This prevents ‘re-inventing the wheel’ thus saves the time, effort and resources of a researcher.

  1. Download & accomplish the following:
    a. IP Research & Registry Form         
    b. Search Application (for UST cliets)
    c. Invention Disclosure
  2. Attach the Document and Send an email to UST- ITSO

Patent Drafting

Once novelty has been established by the patent search, the ITSO can assist in drafting the patent specifications of a given technology.

  1. Create a  letter of intent addressed to Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation
  2. Attach the following:
    a.
    Patent Search Report
    b.
    Invention Disclosure 
  3. Send an email to UST-ITSO

Schedule an IP Workshop

The ITSO can conduct seminar-workshops on the basic intellectual property rights and hands-on training on patent searching.

  • Basic IP: This module discusses the different Intellectual Property Rights, their characteristics, and descriptions. This enhances the capacity of researchers to identify potential IPs that can be generated, protected and registered.
  • Patent Searching: This module teaches how to use different search engines to look for prior arts in order to establish the novelty and patentability of an invention. It also educates on how to use patent information in relation to research development as well as identifies potential companies who are active in a particular technology.
  1. Create a  letter of intent addressed to Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation
  2. Send an email to UST- ITSO

Administration & Staff

Mrs. Eugenia R. Zhuo, MSc

Patent Searcher for Information Technology

 
ITSO Entrepreneur

Mr. Romano S.L. Macaisa, MFA

ITSO Patent Drafter

RESOURCES

For UST-ITSO to be able to assist you in providing the best strategies in your invention or technology for intellectual property protection, kindly download and fill up needed forms.

CONTACT US

1/F Thomas Aquinas Research Complex
University of Santo Tomas
España Boulevard, Sampaloc,
Manila 1015, Philippines

We are here to address any questions you may have. Please contact us and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

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TELEPHONE NUMBERS:

  • +63-2-3406-1611 local 4039
  • +63-2-8740-9731