Roberto del Rosario

Who is Roberto del Rosario?

Musician
Music teacher who played eight instruments
President of the Trebel Music Corporation
Has patented more than twenty inventions
One of the Filipino inventors with the most number of
inventions
awarded a Gold Medal for Best Inventor in 1985 by the
United
Nations
World
Intellectual
Property
Association
first Filipino to be elected to the executive board of the
International Federation of the Inventors Association

 Who is Roberto del Rosario?

invented an advanced sing-along-system known as the oneman-band or the OMB which was a sing-along-system
(SAS)
acknowledged for his duly-patented invention called the
Karaoke Sing Along System
granted a patent for his innovation called the Minus One
karaoke
patent was issued in June 1988
patent was renewed in November 1991 for another five
years as there were improvement introduced to the
minus one karaoke

 The Controversy
patent infringement

ROBERTO L. DEL ROSARIO,petitioner,

vs.COURT OF APPEALS AND JANITO
CORPORATION,respondents. G.R. No.
115106.March15,1996
The Patent Law expressly acknowledges that
any new model of implements or tools of any
industrial product even if not possessed of the
quality of invention but which is of practical
utility is entitled to a patent for utility
model.Here, there is no dispute that the letters
patent issued to petitioner are for utility models
of audio equipment.
xxx

ROBERTO L. DEL ROSARIO,petitioner,

vs.COURT OF APPEALS AND JANITO
CORPORATION,respondents. G.R. No.
115106.March15,1996
Under Sec.55of The Patent Law a utility
model shall not be considered new if before the
application for a patent it has been publicly
known or publicly used in this country or has
been described in a printed publication or
publications circulated within the country, or if
it is substantially similar to any other utility
model so known, used or described within the
country.Respondent corporation failed to
present before the trial court competent

ROBERTO L. DEL ROSARIO,petitioner,

vs.COURT OF APPEALS AND JANITO
CORPORATION,respondents. G.R. No.
115106.March15,1996
Clearly, therefore, both petitioners and
respondents models involve substantially the
same modes of operation and produce
substantially the same if not identical results
when used.
In view thereof, we find that petitioner had
established before the trial courtprima
facieproof of violation of his rights as patentee
to justify the issuance of a writ of preliminary
injunction in his favor during the pendency of

Be observant, be
creative. Most of all,
work hard at what
you believe in.
- Roberto del Rosario

Thank you!