IP Expert

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EDITHA R. HECHANOVA

Editha R. Hechanova leads the IP law practice of the HECHANOVA Group. She is she is president and CEO of Hechanova & Co., Inc., an IP consulting firm handling trademark, patent searches and prosecution, and other non-contentious work. She is the managing partner of the law firm Hechanova Bugay Vilchez & Andaya-Racadio, focusing on IP enforcement, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, licensing and transactions. Hechanova graduated from the University of the East with a business degree, major in accounting, magna cum laude. She is a certified public accountant. She obtained her law degree from the Ateneo de Manila University and a certificate in Strategic Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific.

She is the president of the Association of PAQE Professionals, Inc. composed of professionals who passed the Patent Agent Qualifying Examination conducted by the IPOPHL. She is currently the Vice-president of the IP Collegium, an organization of IP experts mainly in the ASEAN region, India and Brazil, sponsored by the Japan Institute for Promoting Invention and Innovation (JIPII). She is the INTA Asia Pacific TM Relations sub-committee chairperson for 2022-2023, and was reappointed for the term 2024-2025.

Hechanova has been cited by the Asia Business Law Journal Philippines as Top 100 Lawyers from 2019-2024, an Asia IP Expert from 2013-2024, an IP Star from 2014-2024, Who’s Who Legal Trademarks from 2012-2023 and by World Trademark Review 1000 as the World’s Leading Trademark Professional for Enforcement and Litigation, and Prosecution and Strategy.

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