About

Provided by Villaseca Abogados

Villaseca Abogados is a full-service IP boutique based in Santiago, Chile, with over 100 years of uninterrupted practice.

The firm advises local and international clients across the full spectrum of intellectual and industrial property, including trademarks, patents, utility models, designs, copyright, plant varieties, trade secrets, domain names, and unfair competition. It also provides guidance on regulatory compliance and IP strategy.

Clients include multinational corporations and Chilean innovators in life sciences, agribusiness, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, energy, retail, and technology.

Villaseca manages the national IP portfolios of PUMA SE, Seiko Epson, Sanrio Company, and Activision Blizzard, and frequently represents clients in opposition and cancellation actions, invalidity proceedings, and litigation before civil courts and the Supreme Court.

The team regularly appears before INAPI (Chile’s Trademark and Patent Office) and NIC Chile (.CL domain authority), and advises on regulatory frameworks under ISP (Institute of Public Health) and SAG (Agricultural and Livestock Service), particularly in connection with plant varieties, cosmetics, biotech products, and food labeling regulations.

The firm contributes actively to IP policy reform, and its attorneys hold leadership and committee roles in ACHIPI (Chilean group of AIPPI), as well as in AIPPI, ASIPI, INTA, and FICPI.

Chambers Review

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Intellectual Property - Chile

4
Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Villaseca Abogados is an experienced IP team in Chile that advises on the full range of trade mark and patent issues. The law firm provides support in day-to-day IP portfolio management, including trade mark prosecution and infringement proceedings. Villaseca Abogados houses a team that boasts experience acting on behalf of clients in administrative litigation proceedings, and its expertise extends to domain name and patent prosecution mandates.

Notable practitioners

Alvaro Arévalo is the key client contact at the firm.

Work Highlights

  • Villaseca Abogados represented Consorzio Italiano Tutela Mortadella Bologna in an opposition to a trademark application filed by the Consortium for Common Food Names.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Members

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Alvaro Arévalo

Head of Department

Carol Schmeisser

Claudia Varas

Claudio Torres

Eduardo Molina

Head of Department

Felipe Pavez

Head of Department

Francisco Valverde

Juan Cristóbal Guzmán

Loreto Vera

María José Morales

Oscar Isler

Clients

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Apple, Microsoft, IBM

Colgate-Palmolive, Novartis, F. Hoffmann-La Roche

Hilton Hotels, Intercontinental Hotels Group

NBA, Puma

Philips, Seiko

Sanrio Company

Industries

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Electronics

Entertaiment

Hotel

Pharmaceuticals

Sports and Clothing

Technology