Intellectual Property
Our intellectual property practice area handles trademark protection, patent strategy and protection, copyright, trade secrets, transactional matters, anti-counterfeiting, plant breeders’ rights, domain name protection, enforcement of intellectual property rights and unfair competition. We identify herein below the specific tasks for each of the subjects previously mentioned.
- Trademark searches (to assess availability for registration and/or use).
- Preparation, filing and prosecution of trademark applications.
- Trademark renewals.
- Representation before the Chilean Trademark Office, the Industrial Property Court and the Supreme Court in connection with contentious and non-contentious rejections of trademark applications.
- Patenting strategy.
- Patent drafting and patent search.
- Preparation of patent applications and prosecution thereof.
- Representation before the Chilean Patent Office, the Industrial Property Court and the Supreme Court in connection with contentious and non-contentious rejections of patent applications.
- Suplementary patent protection applications.
- General legal advisory on copyright matters.
- Software protection.
- Deposit of works before the Department of Intellectual Rights office.
- Edition agreements.
- Copyright due diligence.
- Collective societies.
- Internet service providers liability.
- Confidentiality agreements.
- Design of trade secret policies.
- Trade secret strategy.
- License agreements.
- Franchise agreements.
- Publicity rights agreements.
- Assignment and recordal of intellectual property transfers in general.
- Due diligence on intellectual property matters for commercial agreements.
- Registration of trademarks with customs.
- Border measures.
- Specific market searches.
- General counselling on plant breeder’s rights.
- Preparation and filing of plant breeder’s rights applications.
- Maintenance fees payments for plant breeder’s rights.
- Commercial agreements concerning agricultural matters.
- Registration and renewal of domain names.
- Reversal procedures in the context of arbitration under NIC Chile GDRP.
- Pre-trial advisory.
- Preparation and delivery of cease-and-desist letters.
- Trademark infringement litigation.
- Patent infringement litigation.
- Copyright infringement litigation.
- Legal opinions.
- Passing off.
- Reverse passing off.
- Comparative advertising.
- Negative advertising.
- Interference in third party’s business.
- Representation of clients before CONAR.
- Prior review of advertising pieces to verify compliance with local laws and regulations.
