About

Provided by Cruz Marcelo & Tenefrancia

In this knowledge-based age, the protection, enforcement and commercialization of Intellectual Property rights are indispensable to economic development  Our lawyers are best known for their ability to provide excellent services covering the full spectrum of IP practice.

Our IP practice includes:

• Prosecution of applications for the registration of trademarks and patents (inventions, utility models, industrial designs) and applications for issuance of copyright deposit;
• Protection of business models, trade secrets and undisclosed information; IP commercialization, which includes negotiating, drafting and reviewing agreements for licensing and franchising;
• Registering technology transfer agreements with the Documentation, Information and Technology Transfer Bureau;
• Conduct of IP due diligence and audit of IP assets;
• Registration of food, cosmetics and drugs with the Food and Drug Administration;
• Implementing border control measures;
• Addressing parallel import issues;
• Handling administrative, civil and criminal cases on trademark, copyright and patent infringement and unfair competition; 
• Handling domain name disputes;
• Anti-piracy programs and intellectual property enforcement cases, including market survey, test-buy and evidence-gathering.
  
  

Our IP Department has the unique capability of providing value-added services, like patent drafting and IP litigation, without need of outsourcing work to external consultants or general litigators.