Susan Villanueva

Ms. Villanueva is an experienced and accomplished litigator who has successfully represented in intellectual property, tax and trade cases.

Ms. Villanueva heads the firm’s Intellectual Property Department and is the principal litigator of intellectual property litigation and enforcement cases. She was the principal litigator of landmark intellectual property cases in the Philippines where the Supreme Court first declared a trademark as internationally well-known and affirmed the jurisdiction of the Intellectual Property Office over administrative cases for violations of intellectual property rights. She also successfully defended before the Supreme Court search warrants issued against suspected infringers in an enforcement action for the liquefied petroleum gasoline industry. She successfully argued before the Supreme Court to affirm the abandonment of a patent on the ground of public interest.

Ms. Villanueva graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1991 graduating cum laude and salutatorian. She earned her Masters of Law degree from Yale University in 1995. She is also admitted to the New York Bar.