Patent Office.
SECTION 1. Patent Office. —There is hereby created a "Patent Office" under the executive provision of the Department of Justice, where all records, books, drawings, specifications and other papers and things pertaining to patents shall be safely kept and preserved.
Officers and employees of the Patent Office.
SEC. 2. Officers and employees of the Patent Office.—The Patent Office shall be under the direction of a Director who shall have an Assistant Director shall be appointed by the President with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the Congress of the Philippines, and shall hold office during good behavior. The Director shall receive a salary of seven thousand two hundred pesos a year, and the Assistant Director a salary of six thousand pesos a year. To carry into effect the provisions of this Act, there shall also be in said office such other officers and employees as may be appointed by the Secretary of Justice upon recommendation of the Director. The term "Office" used in this Act means the Patent Office. The term "Director" used in this Act refers to the Director of Patents or the Assistant Director of Patents when acting as or performing the duties of the Director.
Special technical and scientific assistance.
SEC. 3. Special technical and scientific assistance.—The Director is empowered to obtain the assistance of technical, scientific or other qualified officers or employees of other departments, bureaus, offices, agencies and instrumentalities of the Government, including corporations owned, controlled or operated by government, when deemed necessary in the consideration of any matter submitted to the Office relative to the enforcement of the provisions of this Act.
Seal of Office.
SEC. 4. Seal of Office.—The Office shall have a seal with which patents and other papers issued by shall be authenticated. The form and design of the seal shall be approved by the President of the Philippines.
Publications of laws and rules.
SEC. 5. Publications of laws and rules.—The Director shall print, or cause to be printed, and make available for the distribution, pamphlet copies of the laws and of the rules and regulations of the Office, and may print circulars of information relating to matters within the jurisdiction of the Office.
Publication of certain matters in the Official Gazette.
SEC. 6. Publication of certain matters in the Official Gazette.—There shall be published in the Official Gazette a suitable view of drawing, if there be a drawing, and the claims of each patent issue; the rules and regulations duly promulgated and the amendments thereto; an annual index of the names of inventors and patentees and the title of the inventions covered by the patents issued during each fiscal year; all notices and decisions required under this Act to be published; and such other information relating to patents and other matters within the jurisdiction of the Office, as may, in the discretion of the Director, be useful to the public.
Provisions on this page are reproduced verbatim from official open data. See the attribution line.
Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines — Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).