The arbitral tribunal from the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center Inc. recently rendered an arbitral award directing BTI Payments Philippines Inc. to pay Manila Express Payments System at least P5.3 million for patent infringement.
MEPS had alleged that BTI and ETAP unlawfully copied its automated payment machine.
TouchPay is an automated payment machine that offers electronic transactions for paying utility bills, prepaid loads, and more. TouchPay is owned and operated by MEPS and its utility model is registered with the Intellectual Property Office . Miranda, the tribunal said, checked the serial numbers of Pay&Go machines and found that they were also the serial numbers of the APMS of MEPS.
“The testimony of Atty. Miranda established and confirmed clearly that BTI disclosed to and shared with E-TAP confidential information on MEPS’s APMs and connived with E-TAP to copy MEPS’s APMS features and intellectual property and deployed and distributed the altered APM machines in various locations in Metro Manila,” the ruling said.
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