Santiago Ortúzar Decombe

Practice Areas

Compliance, Patent and Innovation, Competition and Antitrust, Trademarks, Advertising Regulation and Unfair Competition, Intellectual Property.

Career

Santiago specialises in the design of strategies for the global protection and licensing of innovations and patents of Chilean companies, universities and inventors.

In relation to the defence of his clients, he is one of the few Chilean lawyers to have achieved significant success before the ITC (International Trade Commission). In addition, he has a large number of successes in the defence of patent lawsuits.

Lately, Santiago is prioritizing his practice in compliance matters, especially in e-commerce and educational establishments sectors.

Professional Memberships

Chilean Bar Association.

Chilean Association of Industrial Property, former president (ACHIPI).

International Trademark Association (INTA).

International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).

Publications

2007 - Co-author “Unfair Competition”, Legal Extension Notebook No. 14, Faculty of Law, Universidad de los Andes.

1995 to now - Author of several articles in the Journal of the Bar Association and El Mercurio, such as “Electronic Facturing Security”, “Protection of technological innovations in Japan”, “The risk of advertising ambush” and “The regulation of the lobby”.

Personal

Santiago is one of the partners in charge of the area of intellectual and industrial property in Alessandri, concentrating more on the protection of innovation and patents, contracts and cases of defense of free competition.

Experience

IDB research identifies six most important regulatory barriers to the growth of Pacific Alliance start-ups

Education