Patent request forms for applicant/agents now downloadable at IPOPHL website

October 19, 2021

The Bureau of Patents (BOP) has uploaded the most commonly used forms by applicants

and agents to assist them in filing their requests and responses to BOP services and office actions.

“Guided by Director General Rowel S. Barba’s BRIGHT 2020-2025 agenda, particularly raising

the ante for customer service and going back to basics, this is among BOP’s initiative to provide applicant-friendly services by uploading the template forms downloadable from the website which will make it easier to accomplish and submit,” BOP Director Lolibeth R. Medrano explained.

Now downloadable on the IPOPHL website, the fillable PDF request forms allow easy encoding of data and require applicants or agents to provide essential information to clearly communicate to the BOP their requests and responses. 

The filled out forms are then uploaded to the eDocFile for Patents together with other relevant attachments. This ensures that only the necessary data is supplied to and received by IPOPHL and that no information is unclear or misrepresented. 

The forms are also designed as checklists to guide applicants on what documents to attach to their request or responses. The forms aim to minimize rejections based on lack of requisite submissions and ease client submissions.

Such initiative is an effort to continuously streamline the filing of requests or responses and improve IPOPHL’s services to stakeholders.

The next batch of downloadable forms is being drafted and will be uploaded within the 1st half of 2022.