MANILA - Multi-awarded scientific researcher Dr. Ramon F. Barba and Jollibee Foods Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tony Tan Caktiong top bill recently produced video documentaries of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Barba discovered the application of potassium nitrate for flower induction in mango trees.

The WIPO webcast page features personalities chosen from the 184 member states of WIPO. The country represented by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines) forms part of the international organization’s member states.

WIPO Communications and Public Outreach Division produce video documentaries to aid public understanding on Intellectual Property (IP).

Barba and Tan Caktiong, the first Asian inventor and entrepreneur respectively featured by WIPO, join other creators and innovators from Burkina Faso (filmmaker), Kenya (filmmaker), Mali (singers, songwriters), Nigeria (inventor), Peru (singer, songwriter), Switzerland (watchmaker), and Tunisia (glass artist).

Barba has at least 12 awards to his name including the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) in Agriculture, and the DA-Khush Award, the highest award conferred by the Federation of Crop Science Societies of the Philippines (FCSSP). Caktiong, on the other hand, received the World Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) Award from Ernst & Young in 2004.

WIPO formally presented the video documentary to IP Philippines Director General Adrian Cristobal, in the first session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property in Geneva, Switzerland.

IP Philippines, the lead agency in the country mandated to implement state policies on IP, provides the grant of patents and registration of trademarks and other marks of ownership.

The WIPO video documentary featuring Barba and Tan Caktiong can be viewed at its website:http://www.wipo.int/multimedia/en/public_outreach/webcast/portraits/index.html