Practice areas
IP; taxation; trade; litigation
Introduction
Susan D Villanueva is an experienced and accomplished litigator who has successfully represented intellectual property, tax and trade cases.
Villanueva heads the firm’s intellectual property department and is the principal litigator of intellectual property litigation and enforcement cases. She was the principal litigator of landmark intellectual property cases in the Philippines where the Supreme Court first declared a trademark as internationally well-known and affirmed the jurisdiction of the Intellectual Property Office over administrative cases for violations of intellectual property rights. She also successfully defended before the Supreme Court search warrants issued against suspected infringers in an enforcement action for the liquefied petroleum gasoline industry. She successfully argued before the Supreme Court to affirm the abandonment of a patent on the ground of public interest.
Villanueva is also a lead litigator of the tax litigation group with extensive experience handling cases before the court of tax appeals and appellate courts. Villanueva is the principal advisor and lead litigator of a major petroleum company on major tax litigation matters.
She also heads the firm’s trade practice group. She represented the Philippine cement industry in obtaining the first provisional safeguard measure issued in the Philippines. She has also advised the petrochemical industry on Asean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) matters.
Villanueva is a professorial lecturer of intellectual property law at the University of the Philippines College of Law. She is also a member of the American Bar Association and the New York Bar Association. Villanueva earned her bachelor of laws degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1991, graduating cum laude and salutatorian. She ranked fourth in the 1991 Philippine Bar Examinations. She earned her master of laws degree, specialising in intellectual property and international law, from Yale University in 1995.
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