Manila, Philippines 2018
In October 2018, I made my first visit to the Philippines for a WIPO patent-drafting workshop at the IP Office of the Philippines in Manila. The workshop and my stay was eminently enjoyable, and the Philippine IP Office was thoroughly supportive and impressive in their operations.
With Philippine IP Office Director General, Josephine Santiago, other instructors and participants
With DG Santiago and European Patent Attorneys, David Musker and James Snaith
Exercise based on invention of Velcro fasteners, . . .
which was inspired by the structure of a burdock seed.
The durian fruit—though many are repulsed by it, I like it.
Art is everywhere in the BGC.
Jose Rizal Monument at Fort Santiago. The story of Jose Rizal as the martyred hero of Philippine independence is a fascinating one.
Visiting Fort Santiago and the Jose Rizal Museum with fellow attorney/instructor, David, from the UK.
Rizal was a Renaissance man, trained as a doctrine, proficient in several languages, and evidencing a great philosophical mind.
That’s the skyline of Bonaficio Global City (BGC) in the distance.
They grow delicious mangoes in the Philippines—yum!
Lapu Lapu statue—said to be the first Asian to lead a successful uprising against foreign invasion.
The gate to Fort Santiagao, built by the Spanish and where Rizal was imprisoned for his ideas and advocacy of civil rights for Filipinos before his execution, which is memorialized here.
A depiction of Rizal continuing to write while imprisoned.
A depiction of the trial of Jose Rizal for sedition, rebellion and conspiracy, by which he was sentenced for execution.