Professional Career

• Founding partner of Silva since July 1990.
• Head of the Famous and Notorious Trademarks Committee of Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Trademark Association from 2009 to 2011.
• Director of the Chilean Association of Intellectual Property (ACHIPI) from 2009 to 2016.
• Counselor of the legal circle of the Instituto Chileno de Administración Racional de Empresas (ICARE - Chilean Institute of Rational Business Administration) from 2005 to 2008.
• Honorary Consul of Jamaica in Chile, 2020.
• President of the Futrono Corporation.
• He participates in the Chilean Bar Association, Chilean Association of Intellectual Property (ACHIPI), Interamerican Association of Industrial Property (ASIPI), International Trademark Association (INTA), Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA) and International Bar Association (IBA), MARQUES.

Professional background

• International Program, Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, 1983.
• Law School, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Santiago, 1990.
• General Business Studies Award, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 2006-2007.

University and Academic Activities

• Speaker at international seminars, including INTA and ASIPI.

Awards

• Gold Category, World Trademark Review 2020.
• Band 2, Chambers & Partners, 2021.
• Chilean leader in intellectual property by IP Stars, 2021.
• Recognized by the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA) as an outstanding intellectual property lawyer, 2020.
• Legal 500, intellectual property: Leading individuals, 2021.
• Best Lawyers, intellectual property, 2021.
• Who's who leader, global leader recommended trademark, 2020.
• Elected as one of the three best intellectual property lawyers in Chile, Leading Lawyers 2013.

Outstanding cases

• Recovered the trademark of the well-known Spanish textile company Mango from third parties that had previously registered it in Chile.
• Advised Entel Chile S.A. in the review of its intellectual property assets prior to the purchase of Nextel Peru.
• Successfully recovered the registration of the O'Neill trademark at national level.
• Management of the unification of LAN and TAM brands, creating the LATAM brand worldwide.
• Seizure of counterfeit products of National Football League Properties, Victoria's Secret and Falabella brands, among others.