Covarrubias

Firm Profile

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.

The firm's culture and team – 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.

Practice specializations

• Patents of Invention: Covarrubias provides end-to-end patent strategy and portfolio design, including patent-versus-trade-secret analysis, state-of-the-art searches, patentability opinions, and freedom-to-operate (FTO) and infringement-risk analysis. The firm handles strategic drafting and filing in Chile, via the Paris Convention and the PCT, prosecution and international portfolio coordination, scope-of-protection reports, technology watch, licence negotiation, and oppositions, invalidity proceedings, and patent litigation.

• Protection of Sensitive Information and Trade Secrets: The firm advises on the identification, classification, and legal protection of confidential business information and trade secrets, including internal policies, contractual safeguards, and enforcement strategies.

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

• Trademarks: Comprehensive trademark portfolio management, including search reports and feasibility analysis, filing, prosecution and registration, renewals, surveillance, and opposition and cancellation actions, in Chile and internationally.

• Domain Names: Comprehensive advice on all types of domain names (.CL, .COM, and other gTLDs) in Chile and abroad, including filing and processing of applications, renewals, monitoring, oppositions, mediations and arbitrations, and cancellation proceedings.

• Data Protection and Cybersecurity: Advisory on personal and sensitive data handling, privacy compliance, data breach response, and cybersecurity-related legal matters.

• AI, Technology and Fintech: Legal advice on the deployment and regulation of artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and financial technology products and platforms.

• E-Commerce: Legal support for online business models, digital contracting, consumer protection compliance, and platform-related IP and regulatory issues.

• Copyright: Protection and enforcement of literary and artistic production, motion pictures, software, fashion, and entertainment industries, in Chile and abroad, including filing and prosecution of registrations, and negotiation, protection, and drafting of contracts and licenses.

• Image & Advertising Rights: Advice on the creation, review, and implementation of advertising campaigns, product labelling, promotions, and competitions, ensuring compliance with national regulations and industry self-regulation standards.

• Regulatory Affairs: Covarrubias advises clients on the registration of pharmaceutical, biological, biotechnology, cosmetic, medical device, food, and beverage 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 — including Life Sciences matters spanning pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical devices — aligning scientific, legal, and business considerations to ensure efficient, compliant market access. Services also include sanitary summary proceedings before health authorities and representation in related administrative and judicial proceedings, as well as advisory on clinical research projects.

• 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.