Under the leadership of Director General Rowel Barba, the Asean Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation achieved 75-percent completion rate of the road map's deliverables, up from the 38 percent when Barba took office in 2021.
In an official letter to the Ipophl, former undersecretary of commerce for IP and Director of the USPTO Kathi Vidal recognized Barba's leadership for positioning Ipophl as an influential IP office globally.
