The Youth Intellectual Property Incentive (YIPI) Program is an incentive program that will support and encourage young creators to build a more progressive and inclusive future in the Philippines’ innovation landscape.
Through the YIPI Program, youth inventors, designers and entrepreneurs can enjoy the waiving of certain fees, technical consultations and capacity buildings when they file their applications.
This Program is part of the innovation strategy of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) to tap the talent and ingenuity of the youth to provide relevant and practical solutions to address the challenges faced by Filipino society today.
Project Duration
The Protection Incentive may be availed of by qualified applicants and institutions until 500 Trademark, 200 Invention, 200 Utility Model, and 200 Industrial Design applications have been certified under the Program, subject to the conditions stated.
The program shall be subject to renewal or extension after assessment.
BENEFITS
- Waiver of Fees
To be eligible for the waiver of fees, the youth filer should be the applicant in the application. If the applicant is an Institution, it shall not
benefit from waiver of fees, even if it has a youth filer as a co-applicant.
The following fees shall be waived only for eligible sole Youth Filers.
i.Prevailing Filing Fee for the following:
• Invention – not exceeding five (5) claims
• Utility Model – not exceeding five (5) claims
• Industrial Design – not exceeding ten (10) embodiments
• Trademark – for one (1) class including color claim fee, as may be applicable;
ii. Prevailing First (1st) Publication Fee;
iii. Prevailing Substantive Examination Fee for Invention; and
iv. Prevailing Annuity Fee for invention for the first and second
anniversaries (5th and 6th year annuities).
Applications initially filed under the YIPI Program but later on found to be not eligible after further assessment by the Bureau of Patents (BOP) shall be required to settle the required fees immediately or within the required timeline.
- Technical Assistance and Capacity Building
- Youth and Institutional applicants may request IPOPHL, through the Documentation, Information and Technology Bureau, technical consultations and capacity building on IP commercialization and management.
- The technical consultations to be provided by the DITTB may be as follows:
- Assistance through preliminary assessment of formality requirements of draft application prior to actual filing of the application; and
- Assistance in filing of international application under the PCT Filing Assistance Program.
Institutional filers that have a Youth Filer as a co-applicant may avail of technical consultations and capacity building.
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants
• Youth Filer
Prior to the filing of the online application, the applicant shall request for a certification from the Documentation, Information and Technology Transfer Bureau (DITTB) of status as youth filer to avail of the benefits.
The request form is hereby attached as Annex “A” and must be submitted with the following:
a. Any government-issued identification (ID) card such as driver’s license, passport, voter’s ID, postal ID, etc.; or
b. Any school or company ID bearing a picture and a copy of NSO/PSA issued birth certificate.
• Institutional filers with youth inventors, designers and entrepreneurs
For institutional filers with co-applicant youth inventors, designers and entrepreneurs, the request form must be signed by the authorized official to be accompanied by any of the foregoing document for the concerned youth inventors, designers and entrepreneurs.
The Certification from DITTB shall be submitted as an attachment to the
online application.