J. Ponce Law is an intellectual property law firm based in the Philippines. We are one of the few intellectual property law firms in the country. Our firm’s area of practice is focused mainly on intellectual property law. As an intellectual property law firm, we pride ourselves to be a team of lawyers, registered patent agents, engineers and trademark specialists who have decades long experience in the practice of intellectual property involving trademarks, trade names patents, utility models, industrial designs, copyright, licensing, technology transfer and franchise agreements, IP litigation and IP enforcement.
Our work product consists of numerous trademark registrations and granted patents, utility model and industrial designs. We have likewise assisted multinational and start-up companies as well as individuals in protecting their intellectual property rights in the Philippines by securing favorable decisions in opposition and cancellation proceedings as well as conducting cease and desist campaigns against known infringers and filing infringement cases. We have also been successful in obtaining well-known trademark status declarations from the Philippine Intellectual Property Office.
As an intellectual property law firm, we have also established long working relationships with other intellectual property law firms in other jurisdictions making it easy for us to help our clients protect their intellectual property rights in other countries. Thus, we are able to help clients obtain trademark registrations, patent, utility model, design and copyright deposit certificates from various intellectual property offices in other countries. We understand that your intellectual property is one of the pillars of your business enterprise. We aim to help protect your most valuable asset.
Our team of professionals can assist you in every aspect of intellectual property work be it about trademark, invention patent, utility model, industrial design, copyright or trade secrets. We can assist in registering your valuable intellectual property rights with the Intellectual Property Office, prosecute your applications for registration, prepare responses to official actions, draft, review and record agreements involving IPRs, conduct due diligence searches, maintain and renew your IP registrations.
Our lawyers have an expert handle of the intellectual property law and related laws and can efficiently represent you and your clients in oppositions against trademark applications and petitions for cancellations of trademark, invention patents, utility model registrations and industrial design registrations. Likewise, our lawyers can represent you or your clients in intellectual property violation cases. We can also assist you in filing administrative, civil and/or criminal complaints for trademark, patent and copyright infringement and also unfair competition.
Our registered patent agents and engineers have over two decades of experience in extensive patent work, including the drafting of specifications, abstracts and claims, and conducting patent searches and freedom to operate opinions.
Our trademark specialists are highly knowledgeable in prosecuting and registering trademarks and are able to handle and manage numerous trademark files for our clients. They are proactive in their work and are capable of properly advising clients of suggestions in order to avoid registrability reports and provisional refusals.
J. Ponce Law is thrilled to announce a resounding victory for our client, the Motion Picture Association, Inc., a trade association that represents filmmaking giants Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros., and iconic streaming platform Netflix. The fight against piracy is far from cinematic but here we have a
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