THE CENTRAL Mindanao University bagged a platinum award from the  Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines for drafting and filing 14 invention patents.

The copyright of these invention patents was successfully commercialized through direct sale in 2020.

Intellectual Property and Technology Business Management project leader and Innovation and Technology Support Office manager Dr. Vellorimo J. Suminguit said the university exceeded the required number of invention patents.

“The platinum award requires seven invention patents only, but last year, we exceeded that. The university was able to file 14 invention patents. In fact, only a fraction of what we have so far was recognized and awarded,” he said.

He said that invention patents require novelty, inventiveness, and industrial usage.

“It should be something that is not obvious to the person skilled to the art, and it has to have industrial use, meaning something that can be sold,” he added.

Over 200 faculty members were trained by IPTBM from 2016 to 2020.

The university had so far filed 136 IPs, and 58% of these were already granted with Certificates of Registration.