Covarrubias

Covarrubias is a leading Chilean law firm founded in 2010, renowned for its deep specialization and strategic focus on Intellectual Property (IP), Life Sciences, and Technology Law. The firm offers a comprehensive range of services, including patents, trademarks, domain names, copyright, data protection, litigation, and regulatory affairs, blending legal excellence with technical precision.

In just over a decade, Covarrubias has rapidly established itself as one of the most prominent and fast-growing IP firms in Chile, advising a diverse portfolio of major local and multinational clients in industries such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, mining, consumer goods, and technology. The firm’s success is rooted in its ability to provide tailored, innovative, and pragmatic legal solutions, all while prioritizing efficiency, responsiveness, and superior client service.

What sets Covarrubias apart is its dynamic, collaborative approach, which combines technical expertise with a deep understanding of business strategy. This allows the firm to not only protect its clients' intangible assets but also to enhance their value in an increasingly complex global landscape.

Covarrubias is widely recognized by clients and peers in the IP industry for its expertise, motivation, and unwavering commitment to excellence. The firm is distinguished by its proactive, forward-looking approach to identifying risks, mitigating exposure, and turning challenges into opportunities.

Operating in a fast-paced and highly responsive environment, the Covarrubias team ensures that all communications are answered within 24 hours and that actions are taken within 48 hours—or immediately when urgency demands it.

This culture of efficiency is driven by a highly qualified, multidisciplinary team of attorneys, patent specialists, and paralegals who deliver legal and technical advice tailored to each client’s specific needs. The firm actively fosters continuous learning, diversity, and professional growth as core elements of its culture.

Beyond client service, Covarrubias maintains a strong commitment to community engagement. The firm provides pro bono support to artists, entrepreneurs, and educational organizations that lack access to legal resources, contributing to social development and the democratization of knowledge.

Patents and plant varieties: Covarrubias provides comprehensive protection for inventions and plant varieties at every stage of the process. Its services include search reports on the state of the art, drafting and filing of patents for inventions, utility models, industrial designs, industrial drawings, integrated circuits and plant varieties. The firm also manages Paris Convention and PCT filings, analyzes examiner reports, responds to office actions, and handles assignments, transfers, and licenses.

Life Sciences: Covarrubias provides comprehensive advisory services on regulatory, patent, and product liability matters, as well as investigations, enforcement actions, and dispute resolution. The firm represents leading multinational companies across the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cosmetics, and medical device industries, offering an integrated legal and technical approach to navigating complex regulatory and intellectual property challenges.

Trademarks and Internet Domain Names: Assistance for trademarks in Chile and worldwide, either contentious or non-contentious, including search reports and feasibility analysis, filing, prosecution, and registration of applications, renewals, surveillance, opposition and cancellation actions, and litigation. This includes domain names in Chile and abroad.

Litigation: Covarrubias represents clients in administrative, civil, arbitration, and criminal proceedings involving Industrial Property, Copyright, Unfair Competition, and Antitrust Law. The firm’s litigation team is recognized for its strategic vision, technical rigor, and strong track record of success in complex and high-stakes disputes.

New Technologies: Assessment on matters of information technology, social networks, and the Internet, and counselling on the management and protection of personal data and sensitive data, drafting of models of electronic contracting, terms and conditions, contracts, privacy policies, use of personal data, among other requirements.

Technology Transfer: Covarrubias advises on the structuring of licensing, collaboration, co-development and knowledge transfer agreements, ensuring a balanced distribution of risks, royalties and benefits. The firm assists companies, start-ups, universities and R&D centres in formalising alliances that drive innovation, promote investment and ensure the responsible use of technological results.

Copyrights: Protection and enforcement of literary and artistic production, motion pictures and software, fashion, and entertainment industries, in Chile and abroad. Filing and prosecution of the advisable registration or protection regarding the client interests are executed, and negotiation protection and redaction of contracts and licenses.

Advertising: Assistance in the creation and implementation of advertising campaigns, promotions, competitions, product labelling, and other assets related to publicity to avoid conflicts with any of the elements involved in the process.

Regulatory Affairs: Covarrubias advises clients on the registration of food, drug, cosmetic, and medical device products, assisting them in adapting documentation and processes to comply with Chilean regulatory frameworks. The firm provides end-to-end regulatory support for companies entering the Chilean market, aligning scientific, legal, and business considerations to ensure efficient and compliant market access.