ON-CALL SERVICE AND RAPID RESPONSE PROTOCOL AGAINST INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS INFRINGEMENTS DURING THE MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS (FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 2)

The Judges of the Commercial Courts of Barcelona (Commercial Court of Barcelona and the Judges of the Commercial Courts of Alicante (Trademark Courts of the European Union) in their joint meeting on December 1, 2022, have adopted a Protocol on-call service and rapid response between the days of February 27 to March 2, 2023, on the occasion of the celebration in the city of Barcelona of the Mobile World Congress, the most important world congress in the communication and mobile telephony.

This Protocol is provided for those cases of possible conflicts between the companies participating in this event that could give rise to a request for precautionary measures, the objective being to avoid as much as possible adopting said measures without hearing the defendant; and at the same time, to guarantee the adoption of effective measures to protect their intellectual property rights.

Among the measures that have been adopted, reference is made to the preferential and priority processing of interim injunctions petitions and/or verification of facts proceedings, urgent precautionary measures (with or without a hearing), the commitment to resolve within a period of two days (48 hours) the requests for interim injunctions petitions and/or verification of facts proceedings, to resolve on the same day of their presentation (24 hours) the admission of requests for protective letters and to adopt, ex officio or at the request of a party, the specific measures necessary to preserve the confidentiality of information that may constitute a trade secret.