Covarrubias participates in regional seminar on cannabis regulation and intellectual property
Matías Valenzuela, senior attorney at Covarrubias specializing in industrial property and regulatory matters, participated as a speaker in the seminar “Legal Cannabis: Intellectual Property, Regulation and Business in the New Green Economy,” organized by ASIPI on...
Covarrubias participates in ASIPI webinar on trademark registration limits
On August 7, the webinar “From Branding to Ban – What Can’t You Register as a Trademark?” was held, organized by ASIPI’s Harmonization and Case Law Committee. The session, broadcast via Zoom and Twitch, brought together specialists from across the region to analyze...
Covarrubias participates in the ASIPI 2025 seminar in El Salvador: Intellectual Property and Innovation for regional development
The international seminar, organized by the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), under the title “Intellectual Property and Innovation: Alliance for Regional Development,” was held in San Salvador from June 8 to 10, 2025. This event brought...
Covarrubias participates in INTA’s Annual Meeting 2025 in San Diego, California
From May 17 and 21, the Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA) took place, one of the most significant global events in intellectual property, with a focus on trademark protection. This year, the meeting took place in San Diego,...
Covarrubias at the XXIV ASIPI Work Sessions and Administrative Council
From December 1 to 4, Covarrubias participated in the XXIV Work Sessions and Administrative Council of the Interamerican Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), held in Panama City. The firm was represented by managing partner Arturo Covarrubias, patent...
Law No. 21.595: Companies are now responsible for industrial and intellectual property crimes and trade secrets
On August 17, 2023, Law No. 21.595, known as the New Law on Economic Crimes, was published in the Diario Oficial (Chilean Governmental Gazzette). This is the biggest reform to the Law on Criminal Liability of Legal Entities (Law No. 20.393) and one of the most...
Analysis – NOT MILK: The Not Company is Condemned for Acts of Unfair Competition
On May 26th, 2023, the 1st Civil Court of Valdivia pronounced its final conviction decision in the trial started by “APROVAL” (Milk Producers’ Trade Association / Asociación Gremial de Productores de Leche) against “The Not Company S.A”. for alleged acts of unfair...
Matías Valenzuela participated as a guest panelist in the webinar Hague Agreement: Perspectives for Latin America organized by ASIPI
On Thursday, March 2, a webinar was organized by the Interamerican Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), in which our senior associate and head of the patent department, Matías Valenzuela, participated as a panelist. In this instance, the topic addressed was...
Covarrubias filed the first provisional patent application in Chile for Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Covarrubias filed the first provisional patent application in Chile, which constitutes a new modality of invention patents. This figure was enshrined in the new Industrial Property Law, which came into force on May 9, 2022, and seeks to facilitate access to trademark...
New Industrial Property Law: reforms that update Chilean legislation on the protection of intangible assets
On May 9th, the amendments to Law No. 19,039 on Industrial Property, made by Law No. 21,355, or "Short Industrial Property Law", came into force. This procedure made the most important reforms in this matter in the last decades, which will impact the way intangible...
Changes in Intellectual Property Matters: Chile joins the Madrid System
On April 4th, 2022, Chile finally adhered to the Madrid Protocol, a process that came into force on July 4th, 2022. The importance of this milestone lies in the fact that this system consists of a centralized registration method, which seeks to simplify the...
Sofía Covarrubias was a guest speaker at the “ASIPI looks to the Future” congress in Punta Cana
Sofía Covarrubias, head of our International Trademark Department, participated in the XXI ASIPI Congress, organization of which our firm is a member. In this instance, the activity, whose slogan was "ASIPI looks to the Future", was aimed at preparing and informing...
Matías Valenzuela, speaker at the program “Impacta I+D 2021” organized by USACH
Matías Valenzuela, head of our Patent Department, participated as a speaker in the program "Impacta I+D 2021", organized by the Direction of Technological Management USACH. In this instance, our patent specialist addressed the topic "Intellectual Property Protection:...
Sofia Covarrubias commented for World Trademark Review in “We are not sure that the time is right: professionals are questioning Chile’s decision to approve the Madrid Protocol”.
“Not sure it is the right time”: practitioners question Chile’s move to approve the Madrid Protocol Chile has set in motion the process to approve the Madrid Protocol in Congress Slowness to implement modernisations of the Trademark Law a concern locally IP office...
Expiration or Cancellation for Non-Use of Marks: A wait that has taken more than seven years
Every day, more entrepreneurs have realized the importance and value that trademarks give to their company, to the products and/or services they market with it. This is a favorable situation, but it has one problem: we have less and less imagination to invent a sign...
Use of Ivermectin in COVID-19
The current SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) associated to the pandemic is an international public health emergency and there is currently no adequate treatment to fight it. Many laboratories and research groups are working hard to find potential vaccines or drugs to...
Partner Arturo Covarrubias was an invited speaker at the conference “International Trademark Protection for US Trademark Owners in Chile”.
About our Speaker: Arturo Covarrubias is the managing partner at Covarrubias & Cía. He is an expert in Industrial Property and manages his firm’s Department of Litigation. His practice areas are industrial property and litigation related to industrial property and...