Mr Fernando García > Carey > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Mr Fernando García

+56 2 2928 2665 fgarcia@carey.cl

Work Department

Intellectual Property / Licensing, Franchising and Distributorship

Position

Counsel of Carey’s Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group.

Career

His practice focuses on intellectual property, especially on invention patents, including strategies for protection mechanisms, administrative and contentious registration processes, nullity procedures for granted registrations, technology transfer projects and patent infringement litigation.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Recognized in Intellectual Property and in Life Sciences, Chambers Latin America.
Recognized as IP Star, Managing Intellectual Property.
Recognized in Patents, IAM Patent.
Recognized in Advertising, Entertainment, Information Technology and Intellectual Property, Best Lawyers.
Recognized in Intellectual Property, Latin Lawyer 250.

SEMINARS
Frequent lecturer in seminars and conferences in Chile and abroad.

PUBLICATIONS
Co-author of The Pharma Legal Handbook: Chile, Pharma Boardroom (2019).

Languages

Spanish and English.

Memberships

ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
Director and Past President of Licensing Executives Society (LES) Chile.
Member of the Chilean Intellectual Property Association (ACHIPI).
Professor of Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademarks, Patents and Litigation, Universidad Andrés Bello (since 2017).
Professor of Graduate Program and Master on Law and New Technologies of Universidad de Chile.
Professor of Graduate Program of Intellectual and Industrial Property, Universidad Finis Terrae.
Head of the Legal Sub-Department, Chilean Industrial Property Department (1998-2000).
Member of the Legal Division of the Comptroller General of the Republic (1995-1996).
Member of the Chilean Bar Association.

Education

Law, Universidad Central.
Degree in Intellectual Property for countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, Industrial Property Office of Brazil (1997).
Degree in Administrative Management of Industrial Property, European Patents Office, Hague, Netherlands (1999).
Degree in New Criminal Procedure, Universidad del Desarrollo (2004).
Degree in Law on Unfair Competition, Instituto de Estudios Judiciales (2007).
Academy of American and International Law, Legal Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA (2008).
Degree in Intellectual and Industrial Property, Universidad Finis Terrae (2008).
Degree in Economic Administrative Law, Universidad de Chile (2011).
Degree in Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs in Pharmaceutical, Biological and Cosmetic Products, Universidad de Chile (2013).