Following World IP Day on 26 April, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has formally released guidance on enforcement for sports event broadcasts and related merchandise. The practical point is clear: illegal live streaming is now being treated as a time-sensitive copyright enforcement problem, with right holders expected to use pre-filed information to seek temporary blocking of specific infringing domains.For sports brands and content distributors, the value lies less in a new slogan and more in timing. A pirated match stream can capture its audience within...

In the Philippines, the latest shift in copyright registration is no longer just a policy update on paper. By the week of 17 June 2026, the market signal had become much clearer in practice: applications now move through IPOPHL’s electronic filing channel, not the old paper-based route, and the registration process is being treated more openly as a substantive screening point rather than a clerical formality.The sharper development is the refusal logic now sitting inside that workflow. Under the revised framework, “lack of human authorship,” originality, and creative expression are squarely...

On June 26, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) publicly warned businesses against a UK-linked outfit calling itself “Crown Mark”. The pitch was familiar in one sense and more sophisticated in another: a third party was supposedly about to file the recipient’s brand, and only urgent paid action could stop the damage. IPOPHL said it has no official relationship with that entity at all.At almost the same moment, a second signal from the Philippines became harder to ignore. IPOPHL has been pressing for updates to the IP Code and related rules as technology changes...

On 30 June 2026, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) used the aftermath of the Philippines’ sixth WTO Trade Policy Review to put two strands in the same frame: its position inside the PCT system and its capability-building work for examining inventions involving artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. That pairing matters. It shows the Philippines is no longer presenting intellectual property as a narrow domestic legal file, but as part of the country’s wider trade, innovation and digital-governance infrastructure.For businesses, the significance...