About Patricia A O Bunye

Patricia A O Bunye is the managing partner at Cruz Marcelo & Tenefrancia. She is an expert on IP commercialisation, including licensing and franchising, and was president of the Licensing Executives Society International (2016–17), the first Filipino and Southeast Asian to hold this position. In 2020, Patricia received LESI’s Peter K. Hess Award of Achievement (conferred on LESI members who have made lasting contributions to the licensing profession). She wrote the Philippines chapter of International Licensing and Technology Transfer: Practice and the Law. Patricia has been recognised as being among the top 100 lawyers in the Philippines by a major legal directory since 2018, and cited by various international law research publications.