Carey

Fernando García

Counsel

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Counsel of Carey’s Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group. His practices areas are focused on intellectual property, infringement of intellectual property rights litigations, licenses, technology transference franchising, distribution and registration processes and invalidation of trademarks, patents and other industrial rights. He has vast experience on advising companies involved in pharmaceutical market (Life Science), on issues regarding the protection and defense of intellectual property assets, as well as regulatory matters concerning the pharmaceutical industry, cosmetics, medical devices and food products.

Bar Admissions

Chile (1995).

Education

Law, Universidad Central.
Degree in Intellectual Property for countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, Industrial Property Office of Brazil (1997).
Degree in Administrative Management of Industrial Property, European Patents Office, Hague, Netherlands (1999).
Degree in New Criminal Procedure, Universidad del Desarrollo (2004).
Degree in Law on Unfair Competition, Instituto de Estudios Judiciales (2007).
Academy of American and International Law, Legal Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA (2008).
Degree in Intellectual and Industrial Property, Universidad Finis Terrae (2008).
Degree in Economic Administrative Law, Universidad de Chile (2011).
Degree in Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs in Pharmaceutical, Biological and Cosmetic Products, Universidad de Chile (2013).

Areas of Practice

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments

Recognized in Intellectual Property and in Life Sciences, Chambers Latin America.
Recognized as IP Star, Managing Intellectual Property.
Recognized in Patents, IAM Patent.
Recognized in Intellectual Property, Best Lawyers.
Recognized in Intellectual Property, The Legal 500.

Professional Activities and Experience

Director and Past President of Licensing Executives Society (LES) Chile.
Member of the Chilean Intellectual Property Association (ACHIPI).
Professor of Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademarks, Patents and Litigation, Universidad Andrés Bello (since 2017).
Professor of Graduate Program and Master on Law and New Technologies of Universidad de Chile.
Professor of Graduate Program of Intellectual and Industrial Property, Universidad Finis Terrae.
Head of the Legal Sub-Department, Chilean Industrial Property Department (1998-2000).
Member of the Legal Division of the Comptroller General of the Republic (1995-1996).
Member of the Chilean Bar Association.

Blogs

Articles

Apostille, Towards a Simpler Legalization Process
Carey, August 2016

From August 30th of 2016, the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, commonly known as the “Apostille Convention”, and which changes the legalization process of foreign public documents, will enter into force in Chile. This treaty was signed on October 5th, 1961, and on December 2015 Chile completed the procedures to ratify it. In order to enforce this convention in Chile, Law No...

New guideline for the supervision and regulation of the nutritional composition and advertisement of foodstuff
Carey, June 2016

Recently the “guideline for the supervision and regulation of the nutritional composition of foodstuff and its advertisement (“the guideline”) was published by the Undersecretary of Health.The guideline´s main objective is to, “guide the process of supervision and regulation of foodstuff”, taking into consideration the upcoming implementation of Decree No. 13 (June 27, 2016), which modifies the Health Regulations for Food Products...

Additional Articles

Co-author of The Pharma Legal Handbook: Chile, Pharma Boardroom (2019).