SLSU Holds Seminar on Patents, Utility Models and Copyrights

In keeping with the goal of making 2016 a year of innovations, and to equip SLSU’s potential generator of inventions, the office of the VP-RDE held a Seminar-Workshop on Awareness in Copyright/Utility Model/Patent, Patent Search and Patent Drafting which had instructors from all five campuses participating in the training on May 11-12, 2016 at SLSU-Sogod campus.

Speakers for the seminar-workshop were drawn from Samar State University (SSU), a prolific generator of patents and utility models among state universities in the Region. SSU’s Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO) director Vivian Moya, its patent drafters and the SSU Vice President for Academic Affairs Felisa Gomba served as the speakers of the seminar.

While the participants from other campuses came from varied fields such as agriculture, business administration, information technology and education, SLSU-Sogod’s participants were the engineering and computer studies faculty members.

Topics covered included intellectual property, patent search, patent drafting, utility models and industrial design, granting procedure, and a specifications drafting workshop, to guide the innovator in navigating the essentials of patent application. The workshop also covered the basics of patent search and patent drafting. 

Engineers and computer science faculty members from SLSU-Sogod in a specs drafting workshop. 

A lecture on utility models and industrial design on the second day of the seminar-workshop.

In a follow up to the first training, a second seminar-workshop was held on May 26-27, 2016 at SLSU-Sogod, this time with the focus solely on copyrights and processes in copyright application. Speakers for this seminar-workshop were Joey Caraquil from SLSU-Tomas Oppus and Julius Paler from SLSU-Sogod.

SLSU currently has 15 technologies that are ready for patent application, which are the outputs of the trainings.

“The ITSO training is an effort by the SLSU President and VP-RDE and RDE Director to improve research and development in the university” said Rhoderick Malangsa, the new department head of the Computer Studies and Information Technology Department at SLSU-Sogod, who has several pending patent applications after the training, in an interview on SLSU Hour, SLSU’s radio program, on June 1, 2016.