Saint Louis University (SLU), through its School of Law (SOL), took part in the Seventh Annual IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Conference held at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 4-6 April 2025.
The Conference gathered 200 papers from 240 scholars, representing 115 institutions and 40 countries. Among the papers presented were from the Philippines: De La Salle University and Saint Louis University. For SLU, SOL Dean Yasmine Lee R. Tadeo, Clifford Chan (SLU SOL alumnus), and Jesabel Aguilar (SLU alumna) presented their paper titled “A Preliminary Assessment on the Sufficiency of Philippine Laws to Incentivize Intellectual Property Registration in Green Technology”.
The IPIRA is a network organized to provide an avenue for “discussions and exchanges for scholars researching Intellectual Property (IP) and innovation-related topics in Asia and/or from an International and Comparative Law perspective”. The Annual IPIRA conference entails parallel presentations of research papers dealing with every minutia of intellectual property law.
The 7th IPIRA Conference was attended by key delegates from the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Office, the Japan Patent Office, and the Japan Patent Attorneys’ Association. As this involved parallel sessions of work-in-progress research, the audience were allowed to take part in the discourse.
SLU’s contribution in the IPIRA Conference aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly Goal 4: Quality Education and Goal 13: Climate Action, highlighting the role of IP law in advancing both educational opportunities and environmental sustainability. (Article by SOL| Photo Credit and posted with their permission: Peter Tenido and Paulo Lozano, De La Salle University )
