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Rodrigo Velasco Alessandri
Partner
- Intellectual Property Litigation Two-year Certificate, Berklee College of Music, 2003. Rodrigo Velasco A. is an attorney graduated from the University of Chile Law School and a musician graduated from Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music. He has specialized in Industrial and Intellectual Property. He counsels on matters concerning licenses, contracts, tax issues, and litigation in connection with trademark enforcement, patents, unfair competition, software, and Internet. He created the Copyright and Entertainment Law Department at Alessandri & Compañía. After graduating from the University of Chile Law School in 2001 (Magna Cum Laude), he was granted a Distinction Diploma by the Chilean Ministry of Justice for his outstanding internship in the Public Legal Assistance Service. During 2002 and 2003, he attended the Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, where he was twice granted the B.A.S. scholarship (Berklee Achievement-based Scholarship) and specialized in the legal aspects of the music industry. His undergraduate thesis in 2000 is titled "Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet". He has participated as speaker in conferences and seminars, written various articles on Intellectual Property matters and regularly collaborates with specialized trademark and copyright publications. He led the Alessandri & Compañía team that obtained the very first sound mark registration in Chile, and filed the first certification trademark application in our country. He made a presentation to the Chilean Senate's Education Commission and took part in the Experts Committee set up by the National Council for Culture and Arts with relation to the last amendment to Law 17,336 on Intellectual Property. In 2001, he was included by the Minister of Culture in the appointment of the first three arbitrators and mediators for conflicts on the collective enforcement of copyright in the National Council for Culture and Arts. In 2008, he was nominated by the renowned Chambers & Partners guide as an "Associate to Watch" in the Intellectual Property Area; the same guide identified him as "Up and coming Individual" in 2009 and 2010. In 2011, this British publication placed him in Band 4 among Leading Individuals and in 2012 he progressed to Band 3. He is currently a professor in the New Technologies and Intellectual Property Diploma programs at the Universidad de Chile and Universidad Finis Terrae. As a musician and music editor, he is a member of the Chilean Performing Rights Organization (SCD) and has been a project evaluator with the Music Fund managed by the National Council for Culture and Arts (2005 2006). He is an active member of the Interamerican Copyright Institute (IIDA), the Chilean Association of Industrial Property (ACHIPI), the International Trademark Association (INTA), the Interamerican Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), and the Chilean Bar Association. He is now the National Delegate and President of the Copyright Committee at ASIPI, a member of INTA's Internet Committee, President of the Copyright Committee at ASIPI, and a member of the Advisory Council at ProBono Foundation. Languages: Spanish - English |
Rodrigo Velasco A. Assistant: Viviana ContrerasLanguages: Tel: (562) 7876021
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