The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has vowed to help clean up four local markets in the country flagged by the European Commission in its latest Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List as hubs of counterfeits and piracy activities. The agency in charge of protecting and...
Manila’s popular sprawling mass markets – Baclaran, Divisoria, Greenhils and Cartimar – have been tagged as hubs of counterfeit goods in the country by the European Commission Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List. In the latest biennial report in December last year, the EU Watch List identified...
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) reported a 40 percent decrease in the number of complaints of counterfeiting and piracy filed with the agency in the January-November period this year versus the same period last year with fake apparel still accounting for the bulk of the...
A citizens’ rights group has called on the 19th Congress to endow the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) with greater police power–specifically site blocking–as a means to protect the creative industry from online pirating. CitizenWatch and the IPOPHL...
Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) have culminated their one-week anti-piracy and anti-terrorism drills in Mindanao on Sunday, June 27. PCG spokesperson Commodore Armand Balilo said the Coast Guard personnel have practiced and applied their anti-terrorism training off Sulu, Tawi-Tawi,...
Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) have started on Monday, June 21, the third phase of their maritime drills, which zero in on anti-piracy and anti-terrorism in Mindanao to strengthen the maritime law enforcement within the region. PCG spokesperson Commodore Armand Balilo said the third...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is set to conduct anti-terrorism and anti-piracy exercises in the Zamboanga Peninsula, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi – Tawi waters to strengthen the country’s maritime law enforcement. In a statement on Sunday, June 20, the PCG said four capital ships will be deployed...
In the absence of a law "with teeth" to combat cyber pirates in the Philippines, Globe Telecom Inc. collaborates with government and content providers to create an "appropriate site-blocking mechanism," Globe Chief Information Security Officer Anton Bonifacio today (June 15) disclosed....
