Intellectual Property right and Technology Commercialization. Organized by IP Philippines’ training arm, the Intellectual Property Research and Training Institute, the workshop is designed to keep innovation moving forward. It brings together technology creators and those with the means to bring these technologies to the commercial market into one venue where they can interact with each other and discover ways to work together.

Intllectual property right

are legal property rights over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law.^[1] Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; ideas, discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secretThe majority of intellectual property rights provide creators of original works economic incentive to develop and share ideas through a form of temporary monopoly.