Bernardita Dittus

Bernardita Dittus

Lawyer from Universidad de Chile, Master of Intellectual and Industrial Property and New Technologies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Former Deputy Director of Trademarks,  Geographical Indications and Appellations of Origin of the National Institute of Industrial Property in Chile.

Specialist in civil litigation and strategic consultancy on intellectual and industrial property, unfair competition and advertising law. 

bdittus@epiclegal.cl

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Bernardita has worked for more than 15 years in consultancy and defense on copyright and similar rights, invention patents, trademarks, industrial designs and other intellectual assets, and she has participated in key trials in Chile.   

During the first years  of her professional career, she worked as an associate in the litigation area at Alessandri & Cía. a renowned law firm in Santiago, Chile, acting on behalf of clients in order to protect their intellectual rights before civil and arbitration courts.  

Having completed her Master of Intellectual and Industrial Property and New Technologies at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2012), she joined Carey, one of the country’s largest law firms, as part of the intellectual property litigation area, where she provided clients with counselling on the strategic protection of artistic and industrial creations, and she participated in trials of high technical complexity. 

In 2019, she joined the National Institute of Industrial Property as Deputy Director of Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Appellations of Origin, participating in legislative discussions on key topics in the area, and reviewing criteria on trademark registration and conservation.

EDUCATION: 

Lawyer from Universidad de Chile, graduated summa cum laude (2005).

Master of Intellectual and Industrial Property and New Technologies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2012).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Distinguished by the 2020 Leading Lawyers Ranking, as an expert in pharmaceutical law and biotechnology.

Distinguished by the Board of Experts of the Chilean Bar Association, in the field of intellectual property, 2021. 

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS: 

Professor of Intellectual Property, Los Andes University, Chile.

Lecturer at the Expert Discussion Session on the Systems of Knowledge Commission of the Constituent Convention, 2022.

Invited by the Economic Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, to analyze the Bill amending Law 19,039 on Industrial Property and others (2018). 

Lecturer invited to the Seminar on intellectual property organized by the International Bar Association and the National Organization of Collective Law Offices in Cuba (ONBC), Havana, Cuba (June 2018 and April 2019)

Lecturer at the discussion sessions on the Reform to the Intellectual Property Law organized by the Department of Commercial Law of Universidad de Los Andes (January 2019)

Lecturer at the seminar on intellectual property matters organized by Fundación Probono for Fundación Colunga (April 2019)

Lecturer at the workshop “Legislation in the Audiovisual Industry”, organized by the European Film Festival in Chile (June 2019 and July 2020)

LANGUAGES: 

Spanish, English, Italian