The Following Are the Functions Of The TDTCO:
a. Identify all intellectual properties with potential for registration, transfer, and commercialization, created by faculty members, personnel, and university staff as well as visiting professors and students of the university;
b. Assist in the disclosure and/or registration of intellectual properties created by faculty members, personnel, and university staff, as well as visiting professors and students to IPOPHL, NLP and other IP Offices abroad (such in the United State of America, Japan, China, and other countries, if applicable);
c. Evaluate research proposals and completed researches as regards their patentability, copyright registration, trademark registration, as well as industrial design registration potentials;
d. Execute arrangement for the commercialization and technology transfer of intellectual property created within the University;
e. Settle disputes arising from intellectual property rights infringement within the University;
f. Monitor royalty payment and distribution;
g. Review and recommend, upon consultation with appropriate units, intellectual property policies to be implemented in the University;
h. Undertake activities in coordination with the colleges to familiarize university employees and students with the intellectual property policies of the university; and
i. Manage the TBDSC and the ITSC.