Understanding Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights

Event Details

The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Creative Industries (CI) committees of the Chamber are holding a session on "Understanding Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights" on 7 September from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM with Atty. Robert Samson of IPOPHL, Mr. Allan Capuyan of NCIP (Invited), and Dr. Analyn Salvador-Amores of the University of the Philippines Baguio via Zoom.

Focusing on the Indigenous Peoples' intellectual property rights, their cultures, traditions, practices, systems, and knowledge provide the country indispensable art to promote its beauty and diversity. Despite their contributions and significance to society, indigenous peoples remain in a constant struggle to fight for their basic rights to land ownership or respect for their cultural beliefs and practices.

Considering the recent controversy of the alleged cultural exploitation of the Butbut Tribe, we can dwell on IPOPHL's statement: "...the intellectual property system, which may be able to give them a certain degree of control over the exploitation and use of genetic resources (GR) under their custody, their traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCE), can bring in positive change to their current circumstances." (Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines, 2020)

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Speakers

Robert Nereo B. Samson

Attorney V at Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL)

Dr. Analyn Salvador-Amores

Professor of Anthropology at University of the Philippines Baguio

Allan Capuyan

Chairperson at National Commission on Indigenous Peoples

Robert Nereo B. Samson is a product of the country’s state universities having completed his Bachelor in Applied Statistics from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines and his Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines. He also holds an International Master of Law Degree in Intellectual Property Law from the Ateneo de Manila School of Law.

He is currently one of the legal staff in the Office of the Director-General of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) providing assistance in the adjudication of intellectual property rights cases appealed to the Director-General of the IPOPHL. He is also tasked to conduct legal and policy research on matters related to intellectual property, including cross-cutting issues such as public health, biodiversity, and traditional knowledge, and to assist in the crafting of proposed legislation, implementing rules and regulations, position papers, and commentaries.

Dr Analyn Salvador-Amores is a professor of Anthropology and Director of the Museo Kordilyera at the University of the Philippines Baguio. She has curated exhibitions for the museum from 2015 to the present, and a most recent one on Cordillera Textiles, entitled Handwoven Tales: The Warp and Weft of Cordillera Textiles. She is the Project Leader of the Cordillera Textiles Project (CordiTex) composed of an interdisciplinary team conducting research on traditional and contemporary textiles in Northern Luzon. She earned her masters and doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University, UK. Her research interests include non-Western aesthetics, material culture, ethnographic museums, and colonial photography in the Philippine Cordillera. Included in her work is the two-time award-winning book: Tapping Ink, Tattooing Identities: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Kalinga Society published by the University of Philippines Press in 2013 (National Book Development Award, 2013 and National Academy of Science and Technology, 2016). As a public service professor, she continues to engage indigenous communities in her work and promotes indigenous knowledge on different platforms. She actively carries out anthropological fieldwork among the indigenous communities in Northern Luzon and has published extensively on this subject.

Member of the Manobo Tribe of Agusan del Sur

Graduate of PMA “Matikas” Class of 1983

Senior Adviser of the Mindanao Indigenous Peoples Conference for Peace and Development (MIPCPD)

Former Officer-in-charge – Mindanao Area Coordinating Center (MACC)

Former Chief, Operations Integration Division, ISAFP

Former Commander of 1st Scout Ranger Battalion, AFP (1st SRB)

Former Commander – Task Force Gantangan (TFG - AFP)

Official Nominee – Abante Tribung Makabansa Party List (ATM)

Former Assistant General Manager for Security and Emergency Services – MIAA (Manila International Airport Authority)

Former Presidential Adviser for IP Concerns under the Office of the President

Current Executive Director of the National Task Force to the End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) Secretariat, and at the same time

Current Chairperson of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) – 8th Commission

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