Administrative Order No. 94, November 20, 1967

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO UPDATE THE PHILIPPINE PATENT SYSTEM

By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a committee to update the Philippine patent system composed of the following:

The Secretary of Commerce and Industry	Chairman
The Chairman, National Science Dev. Board	Member
The Chairman, Philippines Patent Office	“
The Chairman, Philippine Inventors Comm.	“
The Director-General, Presidential Economic Staff	”
The Director, Office of the National Planning, National Economic Council	”

The Legal and Policy Research Office, Presidential Economic Staff, shall act as Secretariat.

The Committee shall have the following powers and functions:

1. Review the Philippine patent system and submit a comprehensive amendatory bill to upgrade our laws along international trends for protection of industrial property;

2. Study and recommend means of coordinating the activities of the Philippines Patent Office and the Philippine Inventors Commission in order to reduce the backlog in processing patent applications; and

3. Study and recommend means by which venture capital may be made available to inventors to finance the manufacture of inventions.

The Committee is empowered to call upon any government office, agency or instrumentality for such assistance as it may need for the accomplishment of its task.

Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS

Executive Secretary