Intellectual Property
Trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets — registered, enforced, and defended in the age of AI.
Your brand, your inventions, and your creative work are assets — and in the Philippines they are only as strong as their registration and your willingness to enforce them. We handle both ends.
Registration and prosecution
Trademarks are the core of this practice: we take marks from clearance searching through application and prosecution before the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL), and we maintain live portfolios for businesses, entertainers, and public figures. Where an invention or a work needs it, we handle patent and copyright protection alongside. For foreign brands, we align Philippine filings with your international portfolio so protection here doesn't lag the markets you already hold.
Making IP earn
Registered rights should produce revenue, not just certificates. We negotiate and draft licensing, franchising, and technology-transfer agreements, advise on fair use and clearance questions, and run IP due diligence in mergers and acquisitions — where an unexamined portfolio is one of the most common places deal value quietly leaks.
Enforcement
When someone trades on what's yours, we act: oppositions and cancellations before IPOPHL, infringement and unfair-competition proceedings, and takedown and settlement strategies that weigh cost against deterrence. The lawyers who send our enforcement letters are the same ones who try our cases.
IP in the age of AI
The questions are new — who owns AI-assisted work, what training on protected material means, how a brand defends itself online — and the statutes are still catching up. We advise on them now, alongside our dedicated Technology and Artificial Intelligence practice.
Who we act for
Foreign and domestic brands, businesses whose names and products are their value, franchisors and licensors, creators, entertainers, and public figures. If you built it and someone else is trading on it — or might — this practice is for you.
For the foreign investor's view, start with our guide to IP protection and trademark registration in the Philippines.
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