Rodrigo Velasco Alessandri

Practice Areas

Copyright, Entertainment and Sports Law, Patent and Innovation, Competition and Antitrust, Trademarks, Advertising Regulation and Unfair Competition, Intellectual Property and Technology, Cybersecurity and Data Protection.

Career

Rodrigo has specialized in the legal aspects of the music industry. He was president of Beethoven Foundation and was recently appointed and was recently appointed member of the board of directors of the International Technology Law Association (iTechLAw). He is also Vice-Chair of the Latin American Committee of the same association.

Between 2013 and 2015 he led the most successful trademark piracy trial in recent times, in which he represented a renowned fashion designer.

Rodrigo headed the team that granted the first registration of a sound mark in Chile, and filed the first certification trademark application in our country. He appeared before the Chilean Senate’s Committee on Education and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Council for Culture and Arts in connection with the latest amendment to Intellectual Property Law 17.336 and its Regulations.

In 2011, he was included, by the Minister of Culture, in the appointment of the first three arbitrators and mediators to resolve conflicts on the collective enforcement of copyright, of the National Council for Culture and Arts.

Professional Memberships

Chilean Bar Association, International Association of Privacy Professionals, International Technology Law Association (iTechLAw), Inter-American Institute of Copyright, IIDA, International Artistic Literary Association, ALAI, International Trademark Association, INTA, Achipi member, Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property, Asipi, Asian Patent Attorney Association, APAA (observer), Latin American Anti Counterfeiting Alliance, ALAF, Director in ChileMujeres Foundation, Director in Fundación La Fuente, Director in Fundación Beethoven, Icare Legal Circle, and Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering CeBib, Universidad de Chile.

Personal

Rodrigo is the managing partner of Alessandri’s ​​technology and intellectual property areas. He has specialized in matters related to licenses, contracts, tax aspects and litigation concerning domain names, trademarks, patents, data protection, software and internet.

Publications

Speaker on How do celebrities protect their digital rights? Asipi, Montevideo 2020.

Thomson Reuters: Data protection in Chile: overview

Thomson Reuters: Privacy in Chile: overview

September 2016, Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement (TPP), intellectual property and the internet: Two visions. Debates de Política Pública, Centro de Estudios Públicos, Chile.

Intellectual Property in the TPP: the real consequences for Chile. Revista del Abogado, issue 66, May 2016.

Bloomberg Law: Privacy and Data Security 2015

Rodrigo Velasco Alessandri of Alessandri Abogados, Santiago, provided expert review of the Chile Country Profile and wrote the Risk Environment section.

Rodrigo Velasco A. contributed to the publication Manual para administrar empresas sociales, annex 12: EMPRESAS CULTURALES O SOCIOCULTURALES (pages 359 and following).

Education