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 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
 AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 
 
Overall Group Head:
Gwen Grecia-de Vera

Supervising Group Head, Information Technology:
Job Adrian M. Ambrosio

Supervising Group Head, Intellectual Property:
Job Adrian M. Ambrosio

Membership:

Philippine Internet Commerce Society (PICS)

PJS Law has confronted the rapid development and increasing complexity of transactions involving information technology and intellectual property with a strong, well founded but innovative corporate law background and a keen awareness of the legal and technical dynamics of these fields. From its early years to the present, The Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group has engaged in pioneering efforts in providing services to clients such as Internet service providers, software developers, business process outsourcing (BPO) companies.
Relevant Experience
• Conducts registration eligibility searches and applications for registration of copyright, trademark, patent, industrial design, utility model, and other intellectual property rights, including preparation, review and/or registration of license and franchise agreements and other technology transfer arrangements with the Documentation, Information and Technology Transfer Bureau.

• Conducts intellectual property due diligence/audit and advises companies on how to deal strategically with IP and innovation, including discussion of various modes of operational efficiency and expansion, from forms of contractual relationships (such as distributorship, consignment, franchise and agency) to appropriate dispute resolution modes.

• Currently acts as counsel for a media management company and advises on cross-border intellectual property issues.

• Extensive experience in negotiating and drafting software license agreements, website development agreements, web hosting agreements, linking agreements, and teaming agreements. Work also includes providing legal advice for contact/call center companies, aggregators and brokers through the drafting of service agreements, reseller agreements and broker services agreements.

• Provides assistance to our Litigation Department in handling cases on hacking, piracy, unfair competition and trademark and copyright infringement, under the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines, the E-Commerce Act, the Consumer Act of the Philippines, and other pertinent statutes, both for complainants and respondents of such cases.