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.

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