Philippines

Overview

The Hechanova Group is a team of Intellectual Property specialists, experienced lawyers, licensed patent and trademark agents, engineers, information technology professionals, paralegals and technical staff. The HECHANOVA Group unlike other firms is composed of:

· HECHANOVA & CO., INC., an intellectual property consulting firm which handles patents and trademarks prosecution and maintenance, search services, review and registration of license agreements and other IP related-documents, renewals, intellectual property recordals, customs recordation, food and drug product registration, plant variety protection, copyright registration, domain name registration, valuation, IP creation, consulting, protection, and other non-contentious IP services.

· HECHANOVA BUGAY VILCHEZ & ANDAYA-RACADIO is a full service law firm and handles the contentious intellectual property services such as enforcement, border control measures, litigation, due diligence, IP audit, mediation, arbitration, and other fields of law, e.g., corporate, taxation, litigation.

The firm’s trademark, patent and copyright practice has been consistently recognized by several publications including Asia Business Law Journal, Managing IP’s IP Stars, Asialaw, Asia IP magazine and Who’s Who Legal. During the 25th Anniversary of the IP Code, HECHANOVA & CO., INC. was honored by the IPOPHL with a Special Citation as the Top Agent for Patent (2017-2021) and Top Industrial Design Agent (2017-2021).