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Managing Intellectual Property ranks Alessandri´s IP Legal Services

 

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Founded in 1893, Alessandri is a full-service law firm with more than a century of experience. Its team of 14 IP lawyers, two litigators and three in-house technical advisers make it one of the largest IP practices in the country. The firm is active in all areas of intellectual property, but particularly strong in trade marks. Trade mark clients include Pfizer, L’Oréal, Diversey, Lacoste and Warner Brothers. In patents, Alessandri represents energy technology company Babcock & Wilcox, Bayer, Bayer CropScience and Monsanto.

In one notable case, Alessandri succeeded in obtaining a geographical indication on behalf of its client, the Regulatory Council of Protected Geographical Indications Jijona and Turron of Alicante. Chile’s patent office INAPI has granted the European geographical indication Jijona to apply to nougat made in the Spanish province of Alicante, using traditional methods and local ingredients. Chile’s patent and trade mark authority has never before recognised a European product with that distinction.

The wine industry is another sector in which Alessandri has built up its IP practice. It serves as counsel to a large number of vineyards, including the trade association Asociación Gremial de Vinos de Chile, which represents more than 100 vineyards across the country. The firm helps vineyards register, maintain, renew and protect their trade marks.

El Regidor 66, 10th Floor
PO Box 136-34 – Las Condes
Santiago – Chile
Tel: +562 2787 60 00
Fax: +562 2787 60 62
Email: ip@alessandri.cl
Website: www.alessandri.cl

Practice areas
Trademarks, Patents, Licensing, Litigation, Anticounterfeiting, Copyright, Telecommunications, Media/Entertainment and Technology (TMT), Internet Domain Names. Antitrust, Unfair Competition, M&A, Corporate, Tax Law.

Firm profile
With 120 years protecting intellectual property rights in Chile, Alessandri is well suited to assist corporations, institutions and individuals with all their legal requirements. The firm has over 30 attorneys, all legal specialists and graduates from Chile’s leading law schools, with postgraduate degrees from universities such as Harvard, New York, The London School of Economics and Political Science. Fluency in English, French and German enable the firm’s attorneys to serve in the five continents.

IP general services
The firm’s Intellectual Property Area is one of the largest and more prestigious in Chile. In 2011 MIP recognized it with the Firm of the Year award. Its lawyers are highly regarded professionals, with specializations such as enforcement of IP rights, registration of trademarks, service and certification marks, appellations of origin, patents, utility models and industrial designs; plant varieties, sanitary authorizations, copyright and neighboring rights protection, unfair competition cases; comprehensive anticounterfeit solutions; tax issues and IP audits. For matters concerning the Internet and Social Media, we help our clients in the registration, renewal and assignment of domain names, and all aspects of surveillance. Partner Rodrigo Velasco S. is the only Chilean ASIPI arbitrator, he is member of the Administrative Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO), and also member of the Executive Comitee of FICPI. In 2012 he was nominated as ICC’s Regional Ambassador for Intellectual

Property in Chile (ICC is the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris). Partner Rodrigo Velasco A. was included in 2011 by the Minister of Culture in the appointment of the first three arbitrators and mediators for conflicts on the collective enforcement of copyright in the National Council for Culture and Arts. The firm’s attorneys have been actively involved in the enforcement of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), Trademark Law Treaty (TLT), both new industrial and intellectual property laws in Chile.

IP contacts
Rodrigo Velasco S.
– IP Managing Partner - rvs@alessandri.cl
Rodrigo Velasco A. – Partner, IP Litigation, Patents - rva@alessandri.cl
Marcos Morales – Patents and Trademarks, Director – IP Prosecution - mmorales@alessandri.cl
Loreto Bresky – Senior Associate - lbresky@alessandri.cl
Felipe Schuster – Senior Associate - fschuster@alessandri.cl

 

Latin Lawyer M&A league tables: Chile

Wednesday, 15 May 2013 by Rosie Cresswell

Carey, Chile’s largest firm, sits at the top of both of the country’s M&A league tables, with nine reported transactions and a deal value of US$5.13 billion.

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Urenda, Rencoret, Orrego y Dorr Abogados and Philippi, Yrarrázaval, Pulido & Brunner take second and third spot in the value tables. In the volume tables, Carey is followed by Cariola, Díez, Pérez-Cotapos & Cía Ltda (six) and Philippi (five).

Two of the region’s most closely watched transactions have played out in Chile over the last three years – the Latam airline merger and the Anglo American-Codelco deal. Of those, only the latter leg of the Codelco-Mitsui deal was announced in our 2012 window, but they illustrate the level of sophistication in the country’s transactional community today. Continue reading ‘Latin Lawyer M&A league tables: Chile’

Chile: first authority for the deposit of microorganisms in Latin America

Santiago, May 2013. Within the framework of the Budapest Treaty, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) designated Chile as the first international authority for the deposit of microorganisms in the Latin America region.

The national institution in charge of this work is the Agricultural Research Institute (INIA), through its operative unit called “Colección Chilean de Recursos Genéticos Microbianos” (CChRGM).

This designation, both for our country and the Latin America region, means an important enhancement of the scientific innovation in Chile and in the region, which surely will facilitate the patenting of such matters, since it introduces the potential inventions to the patent system from the same country, and so reduces the number of deposits to be performed in all the countries where the protection is pursued.

It is important to point out that this designation inserts Chile into a selected group of 38 international deposit authorities, in charge of the storing of microorganisms for patenting purposes.

To learn more, write to Pilar Chicago, at patents@alessandri.cl

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National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile (INAPI) is designated international ISA/IPEA (PCT) authority

National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile (INAPI) is designated international ISA/IPEA (PCT) authority 

In late 2012 the Chilean Industrial Property community received the encouraging news that INAPI had been designated International Searching Authority of Patents (ISA) and International Preliminary Examining Authority of Patents (IPEA) within the system created by the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), whose administration is entrusted to the World Intellectual Property Association (WIPO). Continue reading ‘National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile (INAPI) is designated international ISA/IPEA (PCT) authority’

INTA Bulletin Volunteer Spotlight: Rodrigo Velasco S.

March 15, 2013 Vol. 68 No. 6
Jennifer K. Ziegler, Harley-Davidson U.S.A., LLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
INTA Bulletin Association News Subcommittee
Rodrigo Velasco S., an avid race-car driver, began his law career as a court litigator. After attending his first trademark opposition and cancellation hearings, however, he changed lanes, and he hasn’t looked back since. Now, as managing partner of the intellectual property group at Alessandri & Compañía of Santiago, Chile, he deals extensively with trademark prosecution and litigation matters. Continue reading ‘INTA Bulletin Volunteer Spotlight: Rodrigo Velasco S.’

Värde Partners Inc. will acquire FirstCity Financial Corporation

FirstCity Financial Corporation and Värde Partners, inc. entered into a merger agreement under which certain funds managed by Värde will acquire FirstCity.

Alessandri  acted as counsel to Värde and coordinated the due diligence process in relation to the Fisrst City subsidiaries in Chile, including Servinco, Chile’s leading collections company providing services to most of the banking and financial system in Chile.

Within the framework of an official visit made to Inapi by the Chinese Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), Achipi met with the delegation.

Within the framework of an official visit made to Inapi by the Chinese Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), Achipi met with the delegation.

A delegation from the Chinese Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) met with the Board of the Asociación Chilena de la Propiedad Intelectual (ACHIPI). Marcos Morales, vice-president, Max Montero, treasurer, and board members Cristóbal Porzio and Cristián Mir shared experiences on the kind of work performed by intellectual property attorneys in our country, as well as national laws and local practices. ACHIPI representatives emphasized that their association was the only nongovernmental entity that met said Chinese delegation. Continue reading ‘Within the framework of an official visit made to Inapi by the Chinese Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), Achipi met with the delegation.’

Alessandri wins battle for ‘Sex and the City’ trademark

Rodrigo Velasco y Loreto Bresky

Santiago, November 23, 2012. The Alessandri & Compañía law firm just won a new legal battle in an area where it is already widely recognized, i.e., intellectual property and entertainment law. The Home Box Office (HBO) American company just won an unusual lawsuit: the recognition of Sex and the City as a famous and well known trademark beyond any particular class.

The decision was issued by the National Institute of Industrial Property (Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial, INAPI) on June 27, 2012 and was subsequently confirmed after the October 25 appeal.

Continue reading ‘Alessandri wins battle for ‘Sex and the City’ trademark’

Alessandri helps HBO defend Sex and the City

Latin Lawyer, Thursday, 22nd November 2012

Chile’s Alessandri & Compañía has helped US cable company Home Box Office (HBO) win a rare judgment recognising Sex and the City as a famous and notorious trademark beyond any class.

The decision was handed down by Chile’s Second Instance Court in June and upheld after appeal on 25 October. Continue reading ‘Alessandri helps HBO defend Sex and the City’

General Motors closed a multi jurisdictional deal for the purchase of Ally Financial´s operations in Europe, Latin America and China.

The process involved the due diligence of the target companies and the review of the relevant Purchase and Sale Agreement.

General Motors closed a multi jurisdictional deal for the purchase of Ally Financial Inc.´s operations in Europe, Latin America and China. The European countries involved in the due diligence process are the following: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K. The Latin American countries involved in the due diligence process are the following: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.

Alessandri acted as counsel to GM, with Arturo Alessandri C. as leading partner, and  partner Fernando Jamarne,  and associates Mariana Viera, Sofia Haupt, Andrés Dighero and Isidora Alemparte.

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