IP Expert

Overview

Richmond Lee is a partner of the Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices (ACCRALAW) and the monitor of its Intellectual Property Department. He is an engineer and an attorney-at-law.

Lee focuses his practice on assisting clients register, maintain, and enforce their patents and trademarks. He advocates for clients before the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines and the judicial courts.

His experience in transactional work includes brand licensing, technology transfer transactions, and IP due diligence. Lee also counsels clients on intellectual property strategy, portfolio management, and brand-protection programs.

Lee has more than 20 years of experience in the practice of intellectual property law. He was part of the team that recently obtained a favorable Supreme Court decision in a patent infringement suit.

Lee is an internationally recognized IP counsel, having been named an IP Expert by Asia IP; a Patent Star by Managing IP; and consistently recognized by Chambers Asia Pacific and IAM Patent 1000 as a leading IP and patent practitioner.

He is a member of the Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines. He is currently a member of the Patents Committee of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association and formerly a member of its Designs Committee.

Lee received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Mechanical Engineering from De le Salle University in 1999. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree from San Beda College in 2003 and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2004.