PRACTICE AREAS
Intellectual Property.
INDUSTRIES
Technology, Media and Telecommunications., Sports and Gaming, Consumer and Retail, Healthcare, Water, Agribusiness, Transportation, Financial Services and Fintech, Insurance, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Transportation, Energy, Pension Funds, Investment Funds and Private Equity.
EXPERIENCE
Felipe Claro is in charge of the Intellectual Property Practice Group and has extensive experience in advising national and multinational clients.
He has been Director (1996-2008) and Vice-President (2006-2007) of the Chilean Association of Industrial Property (ACHIPI); President of ASIPI’s Young Lawyers Committee (1999-2001); President of ASIPI’s Internet Committee (1999-2003); President of ASIPI’s Patent Committee (2004-2006); ASIPI Committees Coordinator (2006-2009); LEX MUNDI IP Practice Group Regional Vice-Chair (2001-2007); Alternate Delegate of ASIPI before the Intellectual Property Constituency, ICANN (1999-2003); Arbitrator of the Chilean Country Code Domain Registrar, NIC Chile, (1998-2013); WIPO Panelist; INTA Panel of Neutrals (2005-2008); AIPPI Statutes Committee Secretary (2007-2009); ACHIPI Patent Council Coordinator (2010-2013); LES CHILE President (2011-2013); AIPPI Vice-President (2012-2014) and President (2014-2016); he is also ranked as Leading Lawyer by Chambers & Partners and frequently speaks at IP events.
He joined Claro & Cia. in 1982.
EDUCATION
Postgraduate IP Professor, Universidad Finish Terrae and Universidad de los Andes.
J.D., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1985.