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IPOPHL Philippines (PH) — national
Layer national
Jurisdiction PH (WIPO ST.3: PH)
Issuing body Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL), attached agency of the Department of Trade and Industry; created under Republic Act 8293 (Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines)
Rights administered patent, utility_model, industrial_design, trademark, geographical_indication, copyright (voluntary register); plant_variety is administered by the Bureau of Plant Industry under DA-NSIC, not IPOPHL
Working languages English (primary, authoritative for all examination, decisions, and the WIPO Publish UI); Filipino is co-official under the 1987 Constitution
Connector status register-side: skipped (no API + PH register is materially covered by upstream tools we already ship); statutes-side: planned (small ph_statutes static corpus for RA 8293 + IRRs + IPOPHL Memorandum Circulars)
Last verified 2026-05-18
Manifest entry not yet listed in coverage/sources.yaml

Detail surveys:

Higher layers covering this office transitively (the unusual part of the PH story):

  • WIPO PATENTSCOPE — full PH national patent collection (incl. published utility models); per the data-coverage table row 60: coverage 30.12.1899 → 17.11.2025, twice-monthly refresh, last loaded 22.01.2026. Materially current — ~3-month lag.
  • EPO INPADOC (via regional/epo.md) — PH patents biblio + family + legal events through the standard EPO OPS country path; same patent_client_agents.epo_ops we ship today.
  • EUIPO TMview (tmdn.org/tmview) — PH joined 2013 contributing ~325k TMs at launch; currently the canonical regional aggregator. IPOPHL itself is the Country Lead operating ASEAN TMview / ASEAN DesignView / ASEAN TMclass on EUIPO's TMDN infrastructure per the IPOPHL handover announcement.
  • ASEAN TMview / ASEAN DesignView — regional consolidated, operated by IPOPHL on behalf of ASEAN. Discoverable via aseanip.org and the ASEAN IP Register at ip-register.aseanip.org.
  • WIPO Global Brand Database (branddb.wipo.int/branddb/ph/en/) — mirrored since 2013 per the coverage page.
  • WIPO Madrid Monitor — international TMs designating PH (PH joined Madrid Protocol 25 Jul 2012).
  • WIPO Hague — does NOT designate PH (PH is not a Hague contracting state).

Rating: 🔴 Red — No API

WIPO Publish at wipopublish.ipophil.gov.ph is Apache Wicket SSR HTML over internal Solr core (Solr ?query=OFCO:PH works but pagination is Wicket-coordinate, no JSON envelope). onlineservices.ipophil.gov.ph is Incapsula-WAF-walled. Zero IPOPHL entries in WIPO IP API Catalog. No IPOPHL datasets on data.gov.ph. Jump to access details → View on the atlas →

§1 Mission

IPOPHL is the Philippines' single national IP authority — patents, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, geographical indications, and the voluntary copyright register — established under Republic Act 8293 (IP Code of the Philippines, 1997). For agents, the operationally interesting fact is that IPOPHL is not just a national office — it is the regional Country Lead for the ASEAN IT tools (ASEAN TMview, ASEAN DesignView, ASEAN TMclass), meaning IPOPHL operates EUIPO-style regional infrastructure for the other ASEAN members. PH's national register is materially visible upstream: PATENTSCOPE refreshes the PH national patent collection twice a month, EUIPO TMDN ingests the PH TM register at the ASEAN TMview cadence, and WIPO Global Brand Database mirrors the same TM stream. The genuine national-only gap is PH copyright voluntary register entries, IPOPHL Bureau of Legal Affairs (BLA) decisions, and pure-PH prosecution file history — all of which sit behind an Incapsula WAF on onlineservices.ipophil.gov.ph and have no programmatic substrate. See §3.

§2 What's unique here

  • PH utility models — separate registration under RA 8293 §§ 108-114 with a 7-year non-renewable term and no substantive novelty examination; per the IPOPHL UM overview. Indexed in IPOPHL WIPO Publish and flowing into PATENTSCOPE's PH national collection via WIPO ST.6 data exchange.
  • PH-national-only trademarks — Madrid IRs designating PH are visible via WIPO Madrid Monitor; pure PH-only TMs flow to TMview and Global Brand Database via the ASEAN TMview pipeline operated by IPOPHL itself.
  • PH-national-only industrial designs — PH is not a Hague contracting state, so there is no higher-layer international- designation feed for PH designs; pure-PH designs live in IPOPHL + ASEAN DesignView (EUIPO-hosted regional view) only.
  • IP Code (Republic Act 8293) and IPOPHL Memorandum Circulars — primary substantive law and the running secondary-rule layer. English-authoritative; freely mirrored on lawphil.net and IPOPHL's own administrative-issuances tree.
  • IPOPHL Bureau of Legal Affairs (BLA) decisions — first-instance administrative IP-dispute body (oppositions, cancellations, inter partes). Notices and publications live at the BLA Publication portal — WAF-walled, not reproduced by any higher layer.
  • Voluntary PH copyright register — PH copyright is automatic under Berne, but IPOPHL operates a voluntary register at Copyright Search; not exposed by any higher layer.
  • ASEAN IT-tools operatorship — IPOPHL operates the ASEAN regional feeds for the other 8 ASEAN states; meaning if we ever wanted ASEAN regional coverage at one stroke, the operational party is IPOPHL.

§3 Programmatic surfaces

WIPO Publish at IPOPHL — patents / utility models / industrial designs / trademarks

Field Value
Endpoint https://wipopublish.ipophil.gov.ph/wopublish-search/public/ (/patents, /trademarks, /designs, /detail/{module}?id=)
Auth None (anonymous public read)
Format HTML (Apache Wicket SSR over internal Solr core; no JSON envelope exposed)
Rate limit Not published (IIS reverse proxy; no Incapsula on this host)
ToS posture WIPO global technical-assistance terms govern the software; IPOPHL has no published reuse-licence statement for the data
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — HTML-only SSR with Wicket pagination; no JSON/XML response; covered transitively by PATENTSCOPE + EUIPO TMview + WIPO Global Brand DB
Primary source WIPO Publish home (IPOPHL) · IPOPHL deployment news (17 Sep 2018)

Solr-style ?query=*:* and ?query=OFCO:PH parameters do resolve through to the underlying Solr — making this technically scrapable — but the response is server-rendered Wicket HTML and pagination uses component-coordinate URLs that re-resolve per session. Buckets per probe 2026-05-18 (US egress): patents 82,327, trademarks 791,043, designs 24,141. Not a viable substrate for a hosted proxy.

Field Value
Endpoint https://onlineservices.ipophil.gov.ph/ → eTMfile, eInventionFile, eUMFile, eIDFile, eCorr 2.0, eDocFile, CopyrightSearch, blapublication, blanotices, copyrightdomain
Auth IPOPHL applicant account (eCorr 2.0, email-bootstrapped); DragonPay for fee payment
Format Classic ASP / WebForms HTML behind Incapsula WAF (returns 403 to non-browser user agents without JS challenge)
Rate limit Not published
ToS posture Designed for filing workflows; no API contract
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — Incapsula WAF on every probed path; filing-side, not search-side
Primary source IPOPHL eServices entry · Online Filing · eTMfile FAQ

Hard skip. Even if the WAF were unblocked, this is the filing layer, not a documented read interface.

WIPO IP API Catalog (confirm-by-absence)

Field Value
Endpoint https://apicatalog.wipo.int/api/apis
Probe GET /api/apis?size=300 2026-05-18 → 179 APIs across 10 unique IPOs (DPMA, EPO, EUIPO, IP Australia, JPO, MOIP KOREA, QAZ, UPRP, USPTO, WIPO); zero entries for IPOPHL / Philippines / PH
Rating informational
Primary source WIPO API Catalog

The canonical inventory of office APIs does not list IPOPHL. This confirms by absence that no WIPO-registered IPOPHL API exists today.

data.gov.ph (Open Data Philippines)

Field Value
Endpoint https://data.gov.ph/
Auth n/a (Angular SPA shell only at probe; no SSR; no IPOPHL datasets discovered)
Format n/a
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — no IPOPHL data on the PH national open-data portal
Primary source Open Data Philippines

Materially different posture from data.gov.sg (which at least publishes lodgement-date-walk JSON for SG TMs/designs). No PH open- data equivalent surfaces IPOPHL register data.

Philippine substantive-law mirror

Field Value
Endpoint https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1997/ra_8293_1997.html (RA 8293 IP Code); https://www.ipophil.gov.ph/administrative-issuances/ (IPOPHL Memorandum Circulars + IRRs)
Auth None
Format HTML / PDF; predictable URLs
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🟢 Green — clean static corpus, same pattern as ipo_in_statutes / dpma_statutes / legifrance_ip / tw_trade_secrets
Primary source LawPhil RA 8293 page · IPOPHL administrative issuances

Canonical, free, English-authoritative. LawPhil (Arellano Law Foundation) is non-government but is the most reliable free statute mirror in PH practice. IPOPHL's own administrative-issuances tree carries the Memorandum Circulars and IRRs. The Official Gazette is the government-authoritative source for Republic Acts but returns 403 to non-browser user agents — corpus build should use LawPhil + IPOPHL.

§4 Fees

IPOPHL charges in Philippine peso (PHP) across patents (filing, search, substantive examination, grant, annuities yrs 5-20), utility models (filing/grant/renewal), industrial designs (filing/renewal), trademarks (filing/registration/renewal per class), geographical indications, and copyright voluntary-register fees — plus IPOPHL Bureau of Legal Affairs filing fees for opposition, cancellation, and inter partes proceedings. Fee schedules are set by IPOPHL Memorandum Circulars under the authority delegated by RA 8293.

Notable discount programs (named only — specific amounts and dates live on the official schedule):

  • Small Entity discount — RA 8293 § 7.3 authorises IPOPHL to set reduced fees for small entities (typically MSMEs); operationalised through the fee schedule.
  • ASPEC (ASEAN Patent Examination Co-operation) — accelerated examination programme operated by IPOPHL as Country Lead; fee posture per ASPEC programme overview.
  • PPH (Patent Prosecution Highway) — fee posture varies per bilateral partner.

§5 Access via patent-client-agents

What we cover today

PH register-side coverage today is entirely transitive via existing connectors:

  • patent_client_agents.epo_ops — PH patents biblio + family + legal events through INPADOC.
  • (transitively, via tools that ship today) WIPO PATENTSCOPE search — but we do not currently ship a wipo_patentscope connector; this is queued in BACKLOG.md.
  • (transitively, via tools that ship today) EUIPO TMview / Global Brand Database — also not directly wired into our connector set; the EUIPO surface is wired through regional/euipo.md for EUTM specifically and would need a TMview-direct wrapper for ASEAN/PH TMs.

What we should add

Revival recommendation: ship ph_statutes as a static-law corpus.

  • Module name candidate: ph_statutes (mirroring ipo_in_statutes, dpma_statutes, legifrance_ip, tw_trade_secrets).
  • Scope: Republic Act 8293 (Intellectual Property Code, 1997) and amendments (RA 9150 Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits, RA 9502 Cheaper Medicines Act amendments, RA 10372 copyright amendments), plus the running stream of IPOPHL Memorandum Circulars carried at /administrative-issuances/. Each fetched once from its LawPhil or IPOPHL URL.
  • Why ship rather than skip: the substantive-law layer is the only green PH surface, the primary sources are stable (RA 8293 has been the IP Code since 1997-06-06), and the static-corpus pattern is well-trodden (five sibling corpora already shipped or proposed). Closing it means we lose PH agent capability for filings, prosecution arguments, BLA disputes, and SG SICC + PH RTC cross- border work for no engineering saving.
  • Cross-reference: queue in BACKLOG.md as PH/IPOPHL/Statutes; coverage/sources.yaml entry per the manifest naming convention used by FR/Legifrance/IP.

Next steps

  1. Cut a ph_statutes static-corpus PR using tw_trade_secrets as the smallest sibling exemplar, then walk dpma_statutes for the multi-act case. Primary URLs: LawPhil for RA 8293, IPOPHL's administrative-issuances tree for Memorandum Circulars.
  2. Defer PATENTSCOPE connector decision to the PATENTSCOPE research thread — this is where PH patents and UMs become queryable in our stack.
  3. Defer EUIPO TMview / ASEAN TMview wrapper to the TMview research thread; PH TMs become queryable via that wrapper.
  4. Monitor IPOPHL news for a developer programme. None has been announced; PH is not on the WIPO API Catalog trajectory; watch www.ipophil.gov.ph/news/.

§6 Known unknowns

  • PH plant-variety register at DA-NSIC — administered by Bureau of Plant Industry, not IPOPHL. Out of IPOPHL scope, but a PVP agent might want it. Action: defer to a separate PH-PVP wave.
  • ASEAN TMview / EUIPO TMDN coverage freshness for PH — primary- source-confirmed cadence beyond the qualitative "PH is up-to-date" claim from EU IP cooperation pages. Action: probe TMDN coverage metadata directly.
  • PATENTSCOPE PH backfile completeness — coverage table says 30.12.1899 → 17.11.2025; spot-check whether early-20th-century PH patents are actually present or whether the date range is a metadata default. Action: sample query against PATENTSCOPE.
  • WIPO Publish JSON export at IPOPHL — some WIPO Publish deployments expose ?download=CSV or similar; not observed on IPOPHL's instance. Action: full request-path enumeration with a cookied browser session before any future scrape decision.
  • PH Hague accession trajectory — IPOPHL has stated interest in joining Hague (per news statements); accession would activate the WIPO Hague substitution layer for PH designs. Action: monitor IPOPHL news.
  • IPOPHL administrative-issuances feed freshness — is there an RSS/Atom feed on the /administrative-issuances/ tree, or only the WordPress page list? Action: probe ?feed=rss2 and /wp-json/wp/v2/ per WordPress conventions before corpus build.

§7 References

Primary sources only — IPOPHL, WIPO, EUIPO/TMDN, LawPhil, Official Gazette.

IPOPHL portals + service docs:

WIPO Publish (IPOPHL national):

ASEAN regional surfaces (IPOPHL is Country Lead):

WIPO transitive coverage:

EUIPO transitive coverage:

Substantive law:

Wave file:

Last updated 2026-05-18.