PH, elected chair of APEC’s Intellectual Property Rights Experts Group, widening work in advancing global cooperation

The Philippines has been elected as the chair of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Intellectual Property Rights Experts Group (APEC-IPEG), a new role seen to expand the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines’ (IPOPHL) reach in championing rules, dialogues and best practices that enable the intellectual property (IP) system to be a vehicle for accelerated innovation and creativity.