The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines ("IPOPHL"), with the support of the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO"), is exploring to move its mission-critical intellectual property ("IP") registration services to the cloud in 2024 with the goal of improving its internal processes and efficiencies in data management.
The current Intellectual Property Administration System ("IPAS") of the IPOPHL, IPAS 3.x, was installed in the early days of 2012 and is now showing its age. The IPAS is a software developed and owned by WIPO. It was offered to IP offices under collaborative arrangements for its provision, hosting, and maintenance.
During WIPO's 64th General Assemblies, IPOPHL Director General Rowel S. Barba shared IPOPHL's experiences in using the current version of the IPAS, its limitations, pain points, as well as his wish list for the new IPAS 4.0 implementation. Barba revealed that WIPO has already committed to exploring how it can best support IPOPHL's new requirements as the latter transitions to the latest IPAS version. WIPO has already given IPOPHL access to navigate the IPAS 4 test version by end of July 2023, allowing IPOPHL more time to prepare for the transition.
