Geographical Indications and Designations of Origin

We advise our clients in relation to the protection of their copyright (and related rights) by evaluating together the most convenient way to ensure the protection of those rights, but also to exploit them effectively through different contractual forms such as licensing or cession.

Our firm permanently advises national clients and several of the world’s largest technology companies on legal issues related to information technology, telecommunications and data protection.

The explosive growth of domain name registrations and infringements has made domain portfolio protection more challenging – and more important – than ever.

We file, prosecute and defend geographical indications and designations of origin applications for local and international clients in Chile.

We advise domestic and foreign clients on a wide range of healthcare and life sciences issues related to pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, cosmetics, veterinary, agricultural and aquaculture, and hygiene, among others.

Our services include the protection of the Intellectual and Industrial Property rights of our clients through the exercise of actions in administrative, arbitral or judicial venues.

Our office has extensive experience advising clients from different industries in the protection of their patents. Our services cover all the corresponding stages to obtain the protection of an invention, from the initial phases of prior art searches and drafting of the patent, industrial design and/or utility model applications, to the entire prosecution of such applications before the National lnstitute of Industrial Property, the Industrial Property Court and the Supreme Court.

We file and prosecute the registration of PBR for local and foreign clients in Chile. We include the applications in our surveillance system to inform our clients of the payment of annual and maintenance fees and if required we can handle the payment process before SAG (Chilean Agricultural Service).

We advise our clients in the negotiation and drafting of license agreements, technical assistance, collaboration agreements, franchises and others in connection to the protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights and know-how, including licenses for the use of trademarks, patents and copyrights, software development and licensing, use of image for advertising, content for the Internet and social networks, among others.

lnnovation and the creation of intangible assets are relevant for economic development. The speed of technological change is increasingly vertiginous and the massification of e-commerce has radically changed the way in which individuals and companies relate to each other. Therefore, to tace this world of great and permanent changes it is necessary to have an lntellectual and Industrial Property (IP) advisor capable of providing comprehensive services tailored to the needs of the different  agents participating in the market.

There is a close relationship between intellectual and industrial property, unfair competition and consumer protection.