Published: January 20, 2021
As Chile approaches possible implementation of the Madrid System, INTA, together with local member firm Alessandri Abogados (Chile), hosted a virtual roundtable on January 12, to discuss challenges and opportunities that the Madrid System would bring to trademark owners in the country.
The bill to implement this treaty entered the Chilean Congress’s first constitutional process on December 2, 2020. The Chamber of Deputies approved the bill on January 14, 2021. The next step is the second constitutional procedure in the Senate, the timing of which is not yet known.
Composing the panel were Etienne Sanz de Acedo, INTA’s CEO; Jose Luis Londoño, INTA’s Chief Representative Officer, Latin America and the Caribbean; Loreto Bresky, National Director of Chile’s National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI); and Juan Alejandro Rodríguez, Senior Legal Counsel at the World Intellectual Property Organization