Alessandri & Compañía Abogados

‘Focused on building and maintaining close, personalised relationships with their clients’, Alessandri & Compañía Abogados' 12-strong IP practice recently filed international applications (under the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)-administered Madrid Protocol), on behalf of significant Chilean wineries, fruit and food companies. It also assisted US telecoms software company Mavenir Systems (which has applied for trade mark "OPENBEAM"  - again through the Madrid Protocol) and faced a formal observation regarding its coverage. The firm has additionally joined the National Institute of Industrial Property’s (INAPI) Inventors Assistance Program (PAI), which assists Chilean inventors with patenting processes. Managing partner of the firm’s technology and IP practices, Rodrigo Velasco A, is a music industry expert who specialises in licenses, contracts, taxation and litigation, in relation to domain names, trade marks, patents, data protection, software and the internet; Santiago Ortúzar's workload encompasses IP contracts, as well as the design of strategies for the global protection and licensing of Chilean companies’, universities’ and inventors’ innovations and patents; and director Carla Pacheco assists with IP portfolio management, advertising, unfair competition and litigation. In March 2025, Hernán Torres and Laura Hernández Bethermyt were both made senior associates. Torres focuses primarily on trade marks, anti-counterfeiting, copyright and domain name disputes, along with advising major media and entertainment companies on IP; while Hernández, an expert in managing trade mark and patent portfolios, heads up the firm’s international department.