ABOUT US

Innovation doesn't turn itself on.

We are Covarrubias, an Intellectual Property boutique firm based in Santiago, Chile. Since 2010, we have helped technology companies, multinational corporations, and research institutions protect, defend, and capitalize on their innovation assets — patents, trademarks, technology transfer, and emerging tech. We are the firm that switches on the value of your ideas.

Since 2010, we turn innovation into strategic assets.

We are a boutique law firm specializing in Intellectual Property, Industrial Property, and New Technologies, based in Santiago, Chile. We were founded around a conviction that still drives every case: Intellectual Property is not a filing cabinet. It is the engine that moves a technology from the lab to the market.

Over more than a decade, we have built a team that is unusual in the legal world — lawyers who speak the language of engineering, biotechnology, and software working side by side with engineers and biochemist. Because to protect a technology well, you first have to understand it.

Our clients create what the world needs. We protect them while they do it.

We work with technology companies and startups that want to protect their competitive advantage from day one. With multinational corporations that need a solid IP strategy across Chile and Latin America. With universities and research centers that want to bring their developments to market safely. And we are the trusted correspondent for international firms that need high-level local representation in Chile.

Patents, trademarks, technology: we activate the legal value of your intangible assets.

Our practice covers invention patents, trademark registration and enforcement, domain names, copyright, technology transfer, new technologies, and intellectual property litigation. We are not generalists — we are specialists who have chosen to do one thing, and do it exceptionally well.

We believe a patent is not a document. It is the mechanism that turns a technological asset into real value: licensable, defensible, scalable. A trademark is not a registration. It is the identity that makes a company recognizable and hard to replace.

Internationally recognized. Locally committed.

Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, WTR 1000, IAM Patent 1000, and Leaders League have consistently recognized us as one of Chile’s strongest intellectual property firms. Our founding partner, Arturo Covarrubias, was named ‘IP Lawyer of the Year’ by Legal 500 Chile in 2025.

But rankings don’t define the way we work — our clients do. Every project is different, every technology has its own context, and every IP strategy must adapt to both. That is what we do.

We are the On-Switch for our clients' innovation. And we have been flipping that switch for 15 years.

Offices: Enrique Foster Sur 39, 9th floor, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
Tel: +562 28872300 Fax: +562 28872301

Postal Code: 7550203