IP Expert

Overview

Victor N. de Leon is a senior partner and the head of ACCRALAW’s intellectual property department. He advises clients on all aspects of intellectual property, from registration to enforcement of intellectual property rights. He assists local and foreign clients in prosecuting trademark applications, maintaining trademark portfolios, conducting intellectual property due diligence and filing/prosecuting enforcement actions before administrative tribunals and regular courts.

He has handled significant transactions where he:

• Assisted a famous U.S. fast food restaurant chain before the Supreme Court in successfully prosecuting an infringement/unfair competition case against a local company, as well as a trademark opposition case against another local fast entity seeking to register a confusingly similar mark.
• Assisted a European footwear company in protecting its trademark in the country by successfully prosecuting a cancellation case against a local company that was able to register the former’s trademark.
• Assisted a Japanese footwear company in securing conviction against a seller of counterfeit goods.

De Leon serves as one of the firm’s representatives to the International Trademark Association (INTA). He likewise represents the firm at the Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI) and the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA). He is a member of the Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines (IPAP) and is the current president and a director of the Licensing Executives Society Philippines (LESP). De Leon is a consistently ranked in the field of intellectual property lawyer by Chambers Asia Pacific and has been named a distinguished practitioner by Asialaw. He is consistently cited as an IP expert by Asia IP and a litigation star in Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific.