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Magandang umaga po kabayan Oyil!
I agree with you, the design concept is excusively for PhUV prototype, otherwise, highly appreciated if you can find a way to copyrights the designs. I have a lot of auto body design (ie. family car, pick-up truck, mini-buses and military utility truck). I also conceived a new modern design for jeepneys and tricycles which utilizes fiber glass materials. On the other hand, I wish to express my support to the development of the PhUV prototype.

Salamat po!
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source:http://www.gov.ph/faqs/copyright.asp


11. What woks maybe copyrighted?
Answer:
The following are the copyrightable works:

CLASS

A - Books, Pamphlets and other writings;

B - Periodicals and newspapers;

C - Lectures, sermons, addresses, dissertations prepared for oral delivery. Whether or not reduced in writing or other material form;

D - Letters;

E - Dramatic or dramatico-musical composition (T.V. or movie scripts), Choreographic works or

entertainment in dumb shows;

F - Musical compositions, with or without works;

G - Works of drawing , painting, architecture, sculpture, Engraving, lithography or other works of art, models or designs of work of art;

H - Original ornamental designs or models for articles of manufacture; whether or not registrable as an industrial design, and other works of applied art;

I - Illustrations, maps, plans, sketches, charts and three-dimensional relative to geography, topography, architecture or science;

J - Drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical racter;

K - Photographic works and cinematographic works and works produced By a process analogous to photography; lantern slides;

L - Audiovisual works and cinematographic works works produced by a Process analogous to cinematography or any process for making audio-Visual recordings;

M - Pictorial illustrations and advertisement

N - Computer programs; and

O - Other literary, scholarly, scientific and artistic works.


12. Does a company apply for a copyright all product designs in a design collection?
Answer: For the purpose of protecting your work. Yes.


13. Can a company apply for a copyright for a single design? Can a company register a single design with the IPO and TNL?
Answer: The company can apply their work as a single design in the copyright office as long as they want to avail for the protection of their design.


14. What protection can and company have when its designs are copyrighted?
Answer: The protection for the design is twenty (25) years from the date of making of the work.


15. What are the options available to a victim of copyrighted infringement?
Answer: Remedies for infringement are administer before the IPO, particularly Bureau of Legal Affairs; Judicial (civil and criminal) before the IP courts or RTC.


16. Can a design of regular items (ex. Basket or food cover) be protected by a slight variation or design?
Answer: Yes.


17. Is it possible to secure a copyright for a design that has already been patented by another company?
Answer: Yes, because unlike the patent office, the copyright office performs ministerial functions. The copyright office only relies on the back of the application form/affidavit that the applicant is submitting his/her original work to the copyright office.


18. How would a manufacturing company know that a product design offered by a designer is copyrighted by another manufacturing company?
Answer: Ask for the certificate of copyright registration or do a research with the copyright office.


19. How does one stop a shipment of a copyrighted item when one has to go through Legal procedures first( by w/c twice the shipment has been shipped out)?
Answer: To make the shipment stop ask the assistance from the Presidential Inter-Agency Committee on Intellectual Property Rights( IAC-IPR) with tel. no. 890-3864 or 896-4694 or any DTI office nearest to you or to the Bureau of Customs; or to the court for injunction.


20. Is it possible to collect damages and opportunity losses from copyright infringement?
Answer: Yes. As long as you are the original creator of your work and registered at the copyright office.