PHILIPPINES Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Katrina Doble, Danielle Francesca San Pedro and Edward King Chua Villaraza & Angangco
Villaraza & Angangco is a full-service law firm based in Bonifacio Global City, Philippines, with proven expertise in intellectual property, litiga - tion and corporate law. Co-headed by senior partner Bienvenido Somera Jr and junior part - ner Katrina Doble, the IP team is composed of 11 lawyers and four paralegals. The firm’s IP practice includes but is not limited to trade mark and patent prosecution and registra - tion; copyright deposit; IP commercialisation, licensing, franchising and transfer technology
arrangements; Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) registration and licensure for food, cos - metics and drugs; regulatory advice; freedom to operate searches; trade mark opposition and cancellation; patent invalidation; anti-piracy programmes; IP enforcement actions; pre-liti - gation activities; border control measures; and domain name registration and audit. The team handles all IP litigation in-house, and provides comprehensive and results-driven services that are responsive to clients’ needs.
Authors
Katrina Doble is a partner and co-head of the intellectual property department at Villaraza & Angangco. With over 18 years of experience in IP law, she has covered the full spectrum of IP
Danielle Francesca San Pedro is a partner at Villaraza & Angangco and has more than nine years’ experience in IP. Her practice focuses on trade mark prosecution and litigation, and
practice, focusing in recent years on trade mark law, IP commercialisation and IP litigation. Due to her breadth of experience, she is heavily involved in the growth of Villaraza & Angangco’s trade mark prosecution and litigation practice, including the firm’s foray into domain name registration and auditing. She maintains the trade mark portfolios of several of the firm’s largest clients and continues to push the firm’s enforcement and litigation practice.
on providing regulatory advice. She assists in maintaining the extensive trade mark portfolios of local and foreign IP clients, and also handles multidisciplinary matters, such as: IP commercialisation, licensing and franchising; copyright and broadcast rights vis-à-vis new technologies and the internet; data privacy; domain name audit; legal implications and regulatory requirements for over-the-top (OTT) services; and e-commerce promotion and advertisement of medical devices.
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