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Es el contrato que pueden celebrar las parejas que hacen una vida común, a través del cual el Estado reconoce su nuevo estado civil y regula ante la ley diversos aspectos familiares, patrimoniales y de derechos de salud, laborales y previsionales de su relación. Los contrayentes que celebren la Unión Civil pasan a ser convivientes civiles.

El Congreso de la República (en adelante Congreso) no sólo implica la materialización del espacio público donde leyes son debatidas, formuladas y aprobadas, sino que es uno de las instancias principales donde las decisiones colectivas de la ciudadanía son representadas a través de los partidos políticos y de otras formas de expresión política (independientes y últimamente descolgados o tránsfugas 2 ).

Since Chile's democracy was restored in 1990, the new government supported by an alliance called La Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia (which was composed by four main political parties,) decided to deepen the free trade policy implemented by August Pinochet's regimen. They did the latter by mostly signing bilateral free-trade agreements (FTA) and preferential trade agreements (PTA). This international trade strategy has been called open regionalism and additive regionalism, and has been one of the most important policies that La Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia has implemented. In year 2000, a socialist named Ricardo Lagos was elected president of Chile. From the start this administration was considered to be in line with neostructuralism, a revised development theory of the old school of structuralism, which was elaborated in the Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC). In this understanding, this thesis explores the development theory of neostructuralism (as well as its predecessor structuralism) and identifies a neostructural model of development in order to determine if Chile's outward orientation in the last 15 years has actually met the normative prescriptions of this model. The key finding of this thesis is that even though the neostructural model of development holds some descriptive and normative approximations to the social phenomena of Chile's international trade strategy, the actions triggered by this strategy have not yet achieved the most relevant objectives of the neostructural model.

La existencia de una burocracia efectiva constituye sin dudas un elemento esencial para el funcionamiento del sistema democrático y la vigencia del Estado de derecho . Antes que una mera planta de recursos humanos, la burocracia constituye un conjunto articulado de reglas y pautas de funcionamiento que se insertan en el Estado con la finalidad de dar continuidad, coherencia y relevancia a las políticas públicas, y al mismo tiempo asegurar un ejercicio neutral, objetivo y no arbitrario de los poderes públicos. De esta manera, una burocracia neutra y profesional contribuye no solo a una aplicación eficaz de las decisiones políticas, sino también a limitar la adopción de políticas oportunistas y fortalece la confianza de los actores en cuanto al cumplimiento pleno de los compromisos contraídos como parte de los acuerdos que se celebraron.

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This handbook seeks to provide an essential summary of the key lessons that were lectured by Professor Deepak Malhotra in the negotiation module of the MPP program at the Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford) and a useful input for the author’s future reference.

Intellectual property titleholders are living in a post-TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) system. Almost every member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has had to reform their intellectual property laws in order to meet the minimum standards of protection that TRIPS prescribes.  Chile is no exception to the latter, having not only decided to meet the standards set forth by TRIPS, but more importantly implementing a trade strategy that involves both deep integration  and the regulation of higher intellectual property standards than those laid down by TRIPS.

This bold trade strategy entails signing and ratifying free trade agreements (FTAs) with as many countries and economic regional blocks as possible. The FTA signed and ratified by Chile with the Unites States of America (US-CL) is the most relevant and wide ranging body of regulations regarding intellectual property rights (IPR) that Chile has ever engaged in, and thus, this FTA has also had am impact on Chilean trademark law. 

Drawing from this background, this discussion paper seeks to analyze some regulatory changes that Chile has gone through in regards to trademark filing, since TRIPS and the US-CL are in force, as well as how these modifications are influencing the practice and jurisprudence of Chilean trademark law. Concluding remarks regarding the future of trademark litigation are also signalized at the end of this paper.