During the first years of her professional career, she was an associate in the litigation area at Alessandri & Cia. 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 LL.M. on 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 counseled clients on the strategic protection of artistic and industrial creations, and 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.

Bernardita is also a professor of Intellectual Property and Commercial Law at the University of Los Andes, Chile, and has been invited as a speaker in numerous forums, such as keynote speaker in the Comisión de Sistemas de Conocimiento de la Convención Constituyente (2022) to expand on Intellectual Property, among others. She has been honored in her field of practice, namely, as an outstanding lawyer in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Law in the Ranking Leader Lawyers (2020), and a member of the Board of Experts of the Chilean Bar Association within the Intellectual Property field (2021).

Bernardita has advised an array of companies across the arts, design, editorial, cosmetic, food and services industries, assisting in the protection and registration of their trademarks. She has also assisted companies in the agricultural, fishing, mining industries with the definition of contractual vehicles aimed at protecting their intellectual assets. Finally, she has counseled individuals and other entities in the protection of copyright in preventive action or judicial.

Education

J.D. from Universidad de Chile, graduated with highest distinction (2005).

LL.M. on Intellectual and Industrial Property and New Technologies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2012).

Awards and Recognitions

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.

Distinguished by the World Intellectual Property Organization as a Change Maker In the World Intellectual Property Day Gallery (2023)

Academic Experience

Professor of Commercial Law and Intellectual Property Law, Los Andes University, Chile.

Lectures and presentations

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)

Memberships

Chilean Bar Association.

Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI)

Languages

Spanish, English, Italian.