Mr Sebastián Alvarado > Silva > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile
Silva Offices
HENDAYA 60, 4TH FLOOR
LAS CONDES
SANTIAGO, 7550188
Chile
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Mr Sebastián Alvarado
Work Department
Patents / Regulatory
Position
Partner
Career
Lawyer from the University of Los Andes, specializing in patents, sanitary registrations, trade secrets, and plant varieties protection. He previously worked on corporate and commercial law matters at a local law firm.
Regarding patent prosecution, Sebastián has significant experience in managing patent portfolios both in Chile and abroad, collaborating with international law firms. He has handled numerous third-party opposition proceedings, appeals, and appeals before the Industrial Property Court and the Supreme Court.
In transactional work, he has extensive expertise in negotiating, reviewing, and drafting technology transfer agreements, including conducting thorough due diligence in the context of mergers and acquisitions, patent assignments and licenses, collaboration and service agreements, joint ventures, co-ownership agreements of patents, non-disclosure agreements related to know-how and trade secrets related to patents, among others.
Languages
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Memberships
He is a member of the Chilean Association of Intellectual Property (ACHIPI), a Foreign Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), and a member of the Chilean Bar Association. He holds an LL.M. in Law, Science, and Technology from Stanford University, USA (2015); and a Diploma in Industrial and Intellectual Property from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2011).
Lawyer Rankings
Chile > Intellectual property
(Next Generation Partners)IP firm Silva has an enviable market reputation for its advice to domestic and foreign companies on trade marks, patents, copyright, data privacy, and domain names. The 11-member practice is also sought out to assist with geographical indications and designations of origin, along with significant enforcement and litigation work. Co-leading the practice, founding and managing partner Juan Pablo Silva
‘s track record includes representing the IP rights of multinational companies from the financial services, retail, telecoms, media and sports industries; Francisco Silva‘s current practice incorporates heavyweight international trade mark and patent cases; and Ricardo Montero is a trade mark, domain name and copyright expert. The second line of key practitioners features Andrés Grunewaldt, a litigator and specialist in geographical indications and designations of origin; copyright and patent practitioner Rodrigo León; and recently-promoted partner Sebastián Alvarado. The practice further expanded during 2022 through the recruitment of associates Manuel Concha, Isidora Palma and Victoria Correa from Ruiz Salazar, Grupo EFE (state railway company) and software company Lemontech, respectively.