Divina Ilas-Panganiban is a partner in Quisumbing Torres’ Intellectual Property Practice Group and Information Technology & Communications Industry Group. She has been cited as a Leading Individual in Intellectual Property and Technology, Media, and Telecommunications by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific for 2016 to 2018. She has 17 years of experience in the fields of intellectual property law, commercial law and litigation. She currently serves as the Vice-President and Director of the Philippine Chapter of Licensing Executives Society International and the Chairperson of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights, The American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines.


Divina's practice focuses on the protection of trademarks, copyright, patents and other intellectual property rights. Divina also helps clients in licensing and IP commercialization transactions, including franchising arrangements. She has advised various clients on regulatory and compliance matters, and has extensive experience in IP litigation cases. She is an accredited arbitrator of the Philippine Intellectual Property Office and often serves as a resource speaker in local and international seminars on IP and IT laws.

Atty. Doble’s over seventeen (17) years of experience in intellectual property law has covered the full spectrum of IP practice. Her focus is on trademark law, IP commercialization and IP litigation. She is a Junior Partner of Villaraza & Angangco (V&A Law) where she maintains the trademark portfolios of several of V&A Law’s largest clients, among which is the domestic and international trademark portfolio of BDO Unibank, the Philippines’ largest universal bank and the Philippine trademark portfolio of Franck Muller, a
luxury Swiss watchmaker.

Atty. Doble handles a majority of the V&A Law’s numerous IP litigation cases, putting to use her extensive experience in handling infringement and unfair competition cases before the regular courts, as well as inter partes cases before the Philippine Intellectual Property Office. Some of these cases have even contributed to the building of Philippine jurisprudence on important issues for trademarks specifically for well-known marks and trademark rights violations involving liquified petroleum gas cylinders. She also handles issues regarding IP commercialization and licensing which includes advice on regulatory matters for pharmaceuticals and medical devices, ethical advertising requirements, enforceability of technology transfer and licensing agreements and copyright queries related to music and the visual and performing arts.

Atty. Doble was a pioneer member of the Unreal Campaign Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA) which seeks to increase anti-counterfeit awareness among the youth. She is also a Trustee and the Corporate Secretary of the Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines (IPAP), the leading organization of IP practitioners in the Philippines.

Atty. Doble is a consistently ranked lawyer in leading publications like Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, World Trademark Review and Asia IP. She was awarded Young Lawyer of the Year in the 2017 Philippine Law Awards of the Asian Legal Business. Atty. Doble is one of the Top 100 Women in Litigation in Asia in the 2021 and 2022 lists of Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific.

Bienvenido Marquez III is a partner and head of Quisumbing Torres' Intellectual Property Practice Group and head of the Information Technology & Communications Industry Group. He is also a member of Baker & McKenzie International's Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Steering Committee, leading the anti-counterfeiting taskforce. He is experienced in handling IP enforcement litigation, trademark and patent prosecution and maintenance, copyright, data privacy, information security, IT, telecommunications, e-commerce, electronic transactions, cyber security and cybercrime matters.

Bienvenido focuses his practice on trademark and patent portfolio management and in the enforcement and litigation of IP rights before courts and administrative agencies. He manages the anti-piracy / anti-counterfeiting program for major clients covering a wide range of industries and products: pharmaceuticals, food, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, telecommunications, apparel, footwear, cable and satellite television, computer software, hardware and peripherals, household and consumer products, toys and the entertainment industry. He also advises on information technology, media and telecommunications matters, including data privacy and cybercrime law compliance. He obtained his Juris Doctor and BS Legal Management degrees from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Regina Reyes-Rara is the Managing Partner of MarksPro Philippines, a law firm with focused practice in intellectual property law. She was the Chairperson of the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee: East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee of the International Trademark Association (INTA) from 2010 to 2013 and is the Vice President for Internal Affairs of the Intellectual Property Professors and Researchers Organization of the Philippines (IP-PRO PHIL).

She has been revising the “Revised Penal Code” by Luis B. Reyes since 1990 and was a Professor of Criminal Law at the De La Salle University College of Law and at the Far Eastern University-De La Salle University Joint JD-MBA Program. She also served as host-legal consultant of a public affairs program on DZMM radio for several years. She has conducted lectures on intellectual property protection in the Philippines and abroad, and for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) for lawyers in the Philippines.

Pui Keng serves as a Principal and the Department Head of the Trademarks Department at DCC Advanz. She has a background in law, having graduated with a LL.B (Hons) from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. She has close to 22 years of experience in intellectual property, and was a practicing lawyer in two law firms prior to joining Advanz Fidelis.

Pui Keng is a Registered Trademark and Industrial Designs Agent of Malaysia.