The National Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR) is an interagency body that formulates and implements plans and policies, as well as strengthen the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in the country.
The NCIPR is composed of 15 members with the Department of Trade and Industry as chairman and the IPOPHL as vice chairman and secretariat
MEMBER AGENCIES
FUNCTIONS, DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES
ACCOMPLISHMENT REPORTS
MEMBER AGENCIES
Chaired by the Department of Trade and Industry with IPOPHL as its vice chair, NCIPR is also composed of the following:
- Department of Justice
- Bureau of Customs
- Food and Drug Authority
- National Bureau of Investigation
- Philippine National Police
- Optical Media Board
- National Book Development Board
- Office of the Special Envoy on Transnational Crime
- Department of the Interior and Local Government
- National Telecommunications Commission
- Department of Information and Communications Technology
- Bureau of Internal Revenue
- Bureau of Immigration
FUNCTIONS, DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES
National Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR):
- Intensify public information and education campaign on the importance of IPR to national development and global competitiveness.
- Intensify regular and effective enforcement against IPR violations, and to allocate sufficient resources to ensure effective prosecution of pirates and counterfeiters.
- Maintain appropriate coordination with the Judiciary to ensure that courts are adequately skilled in intellectual property cases, and improve the adjudication of IP cases.
- Provide the Executive and the Legislative with policy and legislative proposals on IP laws, ensuring that these are in compliance with the country’s existing international obligations embodied in treaties and other agreements;
- Maintain a database and enforcement monitoring system, consolidate information and reports from other agencies, and submit quarterly reports to the President, and provide copies to the Executive Secretary and the Cabinet Secretary.