Pharmaceutical / Regulatory
For many years, HarneckerCarey has advised on pharmaceutical issues, such as patent prosecution, litigation, and regulatory and competition issues. The firm currently represents large laboratories on local and international matters and actively participates in their defense regarding regulatory issues, such as patent linkage, data exclusivity, unfair competition, and sanitary registrations, among others.

Unfair Competition
HarneckerCarey, together with Carey y Cía.’s Antitrust Group, has a proven track record in securing clearance for complex M&A and joint ventures before the Antitrust Court. The firm’s Antritrust practice encompasses all areas of antitrust law, including advisory on regulatory compliance and assessment of operations from a free competition point of view.

Copyright
HarneckerCarey provides advice in all matters related to the registration of literary, artistic, scientific, and technological works before the Departamento de Propiedad Intelectual under the Chilean Ministry of Economy. We also have vast experience in the preparation and drafting of contracts relating to copyright and related rights.

Geographical Indications / Designations of Origin
Our team provides comprehensive advice to its clients in the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin before the Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial (INAPI).
Foreign designations of origin and geographical indications can be protected in Chile and keep their validity if they are protected in their country of origin.

IP Management
Intellectual Property is recognized as a catalyst for business innovation. HarneckerCarey and its multidisciplinary team, advise clients to exercise a high degree of control over their company or institutions’ intangible assets, mainly through intellectual property management strategies.

Licensing, Distributorship and Franchises
HarneckerCarey offers clients a wide range of services addressing issues that arise throughout the life of a franchise relationship, including civil and criminal litigation matters related to fraud, breaches of contracts or warranties, wrongful terminations, and unfair competition law.

Litigation
HarneckerCarey together with Carey y Cía.’s Litigation group have earned a national reputation for solving complex disputes in the area of intellectual property, particularly trademarks, domain names, patents, and copyrights counterfeiting and piracy. Our advice includes preventive measures, such as seizures and claims for damages.

Trademarks
For years, HarneckerCarey has provided comprehensive advice to clients on protection, administration, research, feasibility assessments, supervision and renewal of brands, including criminal and/or civil defense actions, oppositions, annulment actions, among other.

Domain Names
Our team provides comprehensive advice on the registration, maintenance, renovation, and protection of domestic and foreign domain names around the globe, including searches and surveillance strategies for protection of Internet trademarks and copyrights, as well as experience in arbitration.

Patents and Industrial Designs
HarneckerCarey has the largest team of engineers, pharmacists, and other professionals trained in intellectual property matters in Chile, offering a comprehensive and effective advice on all matters related to prior art searches, preparations, feasibility analysis, presentations, processing, procurement and protection of patents, utility models, industrial designs and integrated circuits topographies.

Anti-Counterfeiting
HarneckerCarey together with Carey y Cía.’s Litigation group has wide experience in issues concerning anti-counterfeiting, illegal trade, clandestine commerce and traffic of products that violate intellectual property.

Consumer Protection and Product Liability
Our team has extensive trial experience in product liability and also on matters concerning consumer rights, especially after the recent reforms to the Consumer Rights Protection Law.

Data Protection
HarneckerCarey has ample experience in the protection and defense of personal and corporate data, to avoid its storage, transmission, and use by unauthorized parties, whether public entities, private companies or organizations.

Labeling and Advertising
HarneckerCarey advises clients on all matters related to product labeling according to the Chilean Public Health Institute and other local agencies’ regulations. It also has extensive experience in defending the interests of its clients before the Chilean Consejo de Autorregulación Ética y Publicitaria (CONAR).

Trade Secrets
For years our team has worked with Carey y Cía.’s Litigation Group on issues related to the identification, protection, and defense of trade secrets, crucial in the development of our client’s businesses.

Intangible Assets Valuation
With its multidisciplinary team of lawyers, engineers, pharmacists, and other highly qualified professionals, HarneckerCarey advises clients in the difficult task of assessing their intangible assets related to their patents, trademarks, and copyrights.

Plant Varieties
HarneckerCarey has extensive experience in obtaining protection and registering plant varieties before the Chilean Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero (SAG) that operates under the Ministry of Agriculture of Chile, as well as in advising on the exploitation and licensing of such rights.