Ivan Vargas Chaves
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Ivan Vargas Chaves is a Board member representing Colombia at ColorIURIS A.I.E.[1] He received a J.D. degree from the Rosario University's prestigious School of Law [2] and completed his legal studies in the universities of Castilla-La Mancha and Salamanca in Spain. His practice emphasizes intellectual property issues with a focus on ISP liability and copyright infringement. In addition, his business transactions practice includes IT law advice, technology transfer and other complex intellectual property transactions.
Mr. Vargas-Chaves has been member of the International Chamber of Commerce Subcommittee for Intellectual Property in Colombia and the panel of experts on the Iberoamerican Observatory of Copyright. Even further, he serves as expert of the Congress of the Republic of Colombia’s discussion committee for the ISP liability and intellectual property law project (2011). He is also an advisory board member of the Legal Issues Journal of the Rosario University and the Colombian Journal of Tort Law. In addition to those professional memberships, Mr. Vargas-Chaves was a frequent conferencist on intellectual property matters to a wide variety of professional audiences.
Career History edit
Mr. Vargas has worked in the public and private sector and specializes in complex corporate litigation, contract law, international trade and intellectual property matters. [3] His most recent position was working as a contract coordinator of an important logistics company in Colombia.[4] He has been an Associate at Marrugo, Rivera & Asociados, which is a law firm in Bogotá, Medellín and Cartagena. He was also a Junior Legal Counsel at Muñoz Attorneys at Law. His most recent position was working as a national coordinator of a major contract logistics company.