Practice Expertise

  • Intellectual Property
  • Licensing, Franchising and Distributorship
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Areas of Practice

  • Intellectual Property
  • Licensing, Franchising and Distributorship
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Profile

Counsel of Carey’s Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group. His practice focuses on intellectual property, especially on invention patents, including strategies for protection mechanisms, administrative and contentious registration processes, nullity procedures for granted registrations, technology transfer projects, and trademark and patent infringement litigation.

Bar Admissions
Chile (1995).

Education

  • Law, Universidad Central.
  • Degree in Intellectual Property for countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, Industrial Property Office of Brazil (1997).
  • Degree in Administrative Management of Industrial Property, European Patents Office, The Hague, Netherlands (1999).
  • Degree in New Criminal Procedure, Universidad del Desarrollo (2004).
  • Degree in Unfair Competition Law, Instituto de Estudios Judiciales (2007).
  • Academy of American and International Law, Legal Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA (2008).
  • Degree in Intellectual and Industrial Property, Universidad Finis Terrae (2008).
  • Degree in Economic Administrative Law, Universidad de Chile (2011).
  • Degree in Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs in Pharmaceutical, Biological and Cosmetic Products, Universidad de Chile (2013).

Areas of Practice

  • Intellectual Property
  • Licensing, Franchising and Distributorship

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Named Lawyer of the Year in Advertising, Best Lawyers (2021 and 2023).
  • Recognized in Intellectual Property and in Life Sciences, Chambers Latin America.
  • Recognized in Intellectual Property, The Legal 500.
  • Recognized in Intellectual Property, Latin Lawyer 250.
  • Recognized in Advertising, Entertainment and Intellectual Property, Best Lawyers.
  • Recognized in World Trademark Review (WTR).
  • Recognized in Patents, IAM Patent.
  • Recognized in Intellectual Property and Life Sciences, Top Ranked Legal.



Professional Activities and Experience
  • Member of the Patents Committee, Inter-American Association of Intelectual Property, ASIPI (2023-2025).
  • Vicepresident, Licensing Executives Society (LES) Chile.
  • Member of the Chilean Intellectual Property Association (ACHIPI).
  • Professor of Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademarks, Patents and Litigation, Universidad Andrés Bello (since 2017).
  • Professor of the Graduate Program and Master on Law and New Technologies, Universidad de Chile.
  • Professor of the Graduate Program of Intellectual and Industrial Property, Universidad Finis Terrae.
  • Head of the Legal Sub-Department, Chilean Industrial Property Department (1998-2000).
  • Member of the Legal Division of the Comptroller General of the Republic (1995-1996).
  • Member of the Chilean Bar Association.


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