Ms Reena Mitra-Ventanilla > Quisumbing Torres > Manila, Philippines > Lawyer Profile

Quisumbing Torres
16TH FLOOR, ONE/NEO BUILDING
26TH STREET CORNER 3RD AVENUE, CRESCENT PARK WEST
BONIFACIO GLOBAL CITY, TAGUIG 1634
Philippines
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Work Department

Intellectual Property, Data and Technology

Position

Partner

Career

Reena Mitra-Ventanilla is a partner in Quisumbing Torres’ Intellectual Property, Data and Technology Practice Group. She is a member of the Consumer Goods & Retail and Financial Institutions Industry Groups. She has 17 years of experience handling intellectual property and technology matters. She is currently the corporate secretary of the Philippine Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society International and the corporate secretary of the Philippine Franchise Association, where she also serves as the head of its Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Committee. She has been appointed as a member of the INTA Bulletins Committee for the term 2024 to 2025. She is also an active member of the Women Inter-Industry Network. She co-chairs the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights of the European Chamber of Commerce.

Reena is cited as Next Generation Partner in Intellectual Property by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020 to 2024, IP Expert by Asia IP, 2020 to 2024, Leading Individual for Prosecution and Strategy by World Trademark Review 1000, 2021 to 2024, and Leading Individual for Patent by IAM Patent 1000, 2022 to 2024. More recently, she has been ranked Trademark Star by Managing IP’s IP Star for 2024.

Reena’s practice focuses on intellectual property-related issues and concerns, including brand management, intellectual property litigation and enforcement, and intellectual property and technology transactions. She also works on data privacy matters, technology transfer arrangements and licensing, patents, copyrights and other intellectual property and technology issues. She has represented clients in the technology, pharmaceutical, personal care, consumer goods, fashion, food, entertainment, automotive and retail industries.

Lawyer Rankings

Philippines > Intellectual property

(Next Generation Partners)

Reena Mitra-VentanillaQuisumbing Torres

The collective at Quisumbing Torres is well-placed to assist its noteworthy roster of clients which includes both domestic and multinational names in the protection of their IP, including in disputes contexts. New tech protection is a particular area of expertise for the team. Brand management and enforcement, patent protection and prosecution, and trade secrets protection matters all feature in the team’s workload. Divina Ilas-Panganiban oversees the department and has specialisms spanning IP, data and tech with expertise in TMT in particular; Panganiban is also a member of the Advisory Council for IP in the Philippines. Bienvenido Marquez III is a notable individual in the team, leading on many of its most prominent IP enforcement cases. Reena Mitra-Ventanilla is also standout.