IPOPHL Director General Ricardo R. Blancaflor poses with the winners of the Essay-Writing and the Audio Visual Presentation Contests. With him from left to right are: Korea Copyright Commission Director Kim Yoonsik, Korea Cultural Center Director Seong-Un Hwang, U.S. Embassy Economic Counsellor Joel Ehrendreich, and Mr. Teddy Co, member of the panel of Judges.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) celebrated the World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, 2013. For this year’s celebration, the IPOPHL highlighted the importance of copyright. Thus, it organized an essay-writing and audio-visual presentation contests with the theme: “Respect Copyright”. Both contests were open to   students aged 15 and above. The Awarding, dubbed as Copyright Awards Night”,  was co-organized by the Korean Copyright Commission and the U.S. Embassy and was held during the World Intellectual Property Day at the IPOPHL in McKinley Hill. The winners are as follows:

Essay Writing Contest Winners
1st Prize   Mark Anthony N. Manuel      
                Arellano University School of Law
                Title: Only Respect

2nd Prize  Catherine D. Tan                       
                UP Manila
                Title:  That Watchdog, or Guiding Falcon

3rd Prize   Jul Yan Marie L. Espeleta         
                UP Manila
                Title:  Romancing the Law: The [Love] Affair of Copyright and
                Generation Ctrl + C in the Philippines     

AVP Contest Winners
1st Prize   Marie Alexis Suller Miravite      
                University of the Philippines  OPEN UNIVERSITY
   
2nd Prize  Julius Bisnar Cea                           
                Technological Institute of the Phils., Q.C.

3rd Prize   Mark Johnson P.  Sangalang       
                Lyceum Manila