Silva

Patents / Regulatory

Partner

Lawyer from the University of Los Andes, specializing in patents, sanitary registrations, trade secrets, and plant varieties protection. He previously worked on corporate and commercial law matters at a local law firm.

Regarding patent prosecution, Sebastián has significant experience in managing patent portfolios both in Chile and abroad, collaborating with international law firms. He has handled numerous third-party opposition proceedings, appeals, and appeals before the Industrial Property Court and the Supreme Court.

In transactional work, he has extensive expertise in negotiating, reviewing, and drafting technology transfer agreements, including conducting thorough due diligence in the context of mergers and acquisitions, patent assignments and licenses, collaboration and service agreements, joint ventures, co-ownership agreements of patents, non-disclosure agreements related to know-how and trade secrets related to patents, among others.

Spanish, English, Portuguese

He is a member of the Chilean Association of Intellectual Property (ACHIPI), a Foreign Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), and a member of the Chilean Bar Association. He holds an LL.M. in Law, Science, and Technology from Stanford University, USA (2015); and a Diploma in Industrial and Intellectual Property from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2011).