Aside from being an active legal advocate, Atty. Bulilan is a licensed mechanical engineer and a certified patent valuation analyst. He has more than 40 years of experience focusing on patent, trademark, and copyright matters. He also handles plant variety applications, patent valuation, including Freedom to Operate search and opinion, technology transfer licensing, enforcement and other related matters. He was listed as IP Stars, more than five (5) times in Patents and Trademarks filing and prosecution as well as in Strategy and Counselling. Likewise, he was recognized as Asia IP Expert since 2019.

Before joining SVBB Law, he served as former senior patent examiner and Hearing Officer of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL).  As head of the firm’s Intellectual Property Department, he has represented both foreign and local clienteles engaged in renewable energy, power plant engineering, transportation industry, pharmaceuticals, agri-chemicals, building construction, and heating and ventilation technology. He has also assisted the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in obtaining patents for the various technologies generated by its research institutions and DOST assisted individual inventors. He also serves as IP legal expert of the Fairness Opinion Board (FOB) on Technology Transfer transactions.

Atty. Bulilan has completed relevant training courses conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office, Australian Patent Office, Japanese Patent Office, Korean Intellectual Property Office, Queen Mary College, and the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) in Strasbourg, France. An active Rotarian, he was a  past President of the Rotary Club of Marikina North, and Assistant Governor of Rotary International District 3800 ( 2011-2012).

He obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering degree from the National University and his Bachelor of Laws from the Far Eastern University. He was admitted to the bar in 1989.

Professional Affiliations:

• Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA)
• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• One of the Founders and Former Corporate Secretary of the Philippine Association of Certified Patent Agents (PACPA)
• Former VP External of the Philippine Society of Mechanical Engineers (PSME)
• Philippine Bar Association (PBA)
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Integrated Bar of the Philippines
• Former President of the Rotary Club of Marikina North, District 3800
• Knights of Columbus, Council 6681, 2nd degree
• Assistant Governor of the Rotary International District 3800 (RY 2011-2012)
• Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International, MPHF3