Fernando García > Carey > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Full-service legal giant Carey is ‘far superior to other firms in Chile’, according to certain clients. Acting for a wide range of companies from the energy, infrastructure, mining, transportation, technology, life sciences and healthcare sectors, the multidisciplinary IP group has an enviable reputation for its identification and protection of IP rights at each stage of the innovation lifecycle. The group’s experience ranges from the prosecution and litigation of trade marks, patents and industrial designs, to geographical indications, designations of origin, plant varieties and domain names. It is also home to experts in pharmaceutical-related regulatory matters, copyright, anti-counterfeiting and technology contracting, as well as privacy, licensing, advertising, trade secrets, intangible asset valuations and unfair competition. Largely responsible for the firm’s emergence as an IP powerhouse, Guillermo Carey‘s wide-ranging experience includes assisting pharmaceutical laboratories with regulatory issues and patent infringements. He co-leads the practice in conjunction with  Francisco Carey, who is ‘without a doubt one of the main IP experts in the country’; counsel and invention patent expert Fernando García; and director Jorge Fuentes, who assists with obtaining patents before the Chilean Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI). At associate level, Catalina Aldunate assists with intellectual and industrial property-related assessments and litigation, while IP litigator Carla Encalada focuses on trade marks, patents and domain names.