The Quezon City University (QCU) and the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) signed on Tuesday, April 25, a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the construction of a patent library in the school. The Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO) is a patent library that aims to protect the research projects, inventions, and products of students. The local government held a signing ceremony at the Executive Lounge, Quezon City Hall to formalize the partnership that seeks to bring intellectual property (IP) to the university, promote the national innovative output, and expose local inventions of QCU students to the international patent system. The local government said QCU is its first university that will partner with IPOPHL. It added that another goal of the partnership is to make QCU the number one local university to produce employable graduates. QCU is a recognized institution under the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) that offers 10,000 students accountancy, entrepreneurship, information technology, and engineering programs. IPOPHL is the government agency mandated to administer and implement state policies intended to strengthen the protection of IP rights in the country. "Ayon kay QC Mayor Joy Belmonte, ang pagtutulungan ng QC at IPOPHL ay simbolo ng pagsuporta at pagpapahalaga ng lungsod sa galing at kakayahan ng mga mamamayan, at pagkundena sa mga likhang kinopya o ginaya mula sa iba (According to QC Mayor Joy Belmonte, the collaboration between QC and IPOPHL is a symbol of the city's support and appreciation for the talents and abilities of the citizens, and condemnation of works copied or imitated from others)," said the QC government. Belmonte together with  Atty. Rowel Barba of IPOPHL, QCU president Dr. Theresita Atienza, and Documentation, Information, and Technology Transfer Bureau Director Ralph Jarvis Alindogan attended the ceremony.