Latin America
Practice Areas
Intellectual Property, Life Sciences and Patents.
Career
Partner since 2000. George Washington University, USA(LL.M., 1995). Universidad de Chile Law School, (LLB, 1990).
Juan Pablo has been leading the Patents Group since 2000 together with the lawyers and technical professionals of that group has assisted national and foreign clients in the prosecution of multiple applications in the widest range of technical matters, with particular emphasis in the pharmaceutical, mining and salmon farming areas.
He regularly attends to several of the firm’s clients in the enforcement of their industrial property rights before courts of law and administrative tribunals and also advises them in negotiations for the contractual exploitation of their rights.
Professional Memberships
Working Party Quality Section of SACEPO (Standing Advisory Committee before the European Patent Office).
Chilean Association of Industrial Property Law (ACHIPI).
Asian Patent Attorneys Association – Observer (APAA).
Publications
-Legitimacy of Pharmaceutical Patents – A View from Chile, Monografía Editorial Tirant lo Blanch, September 2024.
Undisclosed Information and Trade Secrets in Chile. Published in the Revista de Actualidad Mercantil de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú, Annual Edition N°8, 2024.
-Industrial Property in the Political Constitution of Chile. Published in Derechos Intelectuales de ASIPI, Volume 27 volume 2, 2023.
-Biosimilar Products in Chile. Technical Rule N° 170. Lawyerlssue Magazine, London. Biotech & Pharmaceutical Law, March 2016.
-Chilean Law Chapter. International Pharmaceutical Law and Practice and Journal, Lexis Nexis, USA, 2019.
Personal
Professor of Diploma in Industrial Property, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2024.
Professor DEM 298: Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2024.
Languages Spoken
Spanish and English.
