RICO V. DOMINGO

History and Admission to Practice Law

 

Born in Manila, Philippines; Philippine Bar (1977); State of New York Bar, United States of America, and the U.S. Federal District Courts (1985); Philippine Patent Office (now Intellectual Property Office) (1978); and United States Patent and Trademark Office (1985).

 

 

Education

 

Bachelor of Arts (A.B.), University of the Philippines (October 1971); Bachelor of Laws (LI.B.), University of the Philippines (1976) (member, Editorial Board, Philippine Law Journal [Law Review of the U.P. College of Law]); Master of Laws (LI.M.) (1980), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A., Graduate School of Law; Master of Business Administration (MBA Units), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A., School of Business; and Post-Graduate Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

 

 

Academe

 

Professor, Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism, Communication Department, Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University; Professor, School of Law, Ateneo de Manila University; Philippine Supreme Court-accredited Lecturer, Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE); Team Leader, SRI International-Washington, D.C. Research Group funded by the U.S. Agency on International Development; Scholar, Training Program on Industrial Property Rights (Industrial Property Rights Course for Management Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship [AOTS]), Japan Patent Office (JPO), Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JII) Tokyo, Japan, 1996; and Philippine Expert, Philippine Judicial Reform Programme on Access to Justice funded by the European Union.

 

 

Government Service

 

First Chairman, Philippine Videogram Regulatory Board (now Optical Media Board [1986]); Legal Counsel and Member, Presidential Task Force on Cinema; and Member, Presidential Inter-Agency Committee on Intellectual Property Rights.

 

 

Legal Practice and Experience

 

Research Assistant, University of the Philippines Law Center (1976-1979); Associate, Siguion Reyna, Montecillo & Ongsiako (1977-1983); Partner, Siguion Reyna, Montecillo & Ongsiako (1983-1987); Philippine Anti-Piracy Counsel and Executive Director of Operations, Motion Picture Export Association of America (MPEAA) (1987-1989); MPEAA's Asia/Pacific Regional Counsel and Regional Director (1989-1992) with responsibility for 20 countries including Japan, Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Peoples Republic of China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and the Philippines; Proprietor/Principal, the Law Firm of R. V. Domingo & Associates; and Managing Director, RVD Business Intelligence Consultancy, Inc. (with international strategic partnership with International Risk Ltd. with offices in Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China, Kingdom of Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other key cities in the Asia/Pacific Region).

 

 

Professional, Civic and Social Affiliations

 

Member, Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP); member, Philippine Bar Association (PBA); member, American Bar Association (ABA); member, ABA Sections of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, International Law and Practice, Entertainment and Sports Industries, and Law Practice Management; member, New York State Bar Association (NYSBA); member, NYSBA Sections of Business Law, Intellectual Property Law,  and International Law and Practice; member, Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriete Industrielle (AIPPI); member, International Trademark Association (INTA); member, Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA); member, International Pacific Bar Association (IPBA); former Officer/Director, Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines (IPAP); Past Secretary/Director, Rotary Club of Manila (Paul Harris Fellow); President, U.P. High School Alumni Association (1994-1996); President, Makati (Sports) Club, Inc. (1995-1996); Vice President, U.P. Law Alumni Association, Inc.; member, American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines; member, Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP); member, American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS International), Virginia, U.S.A.;  and President, RVD Business and Legal Outsourcing Group (RVDBlawg), Inc.