Durán-Corretjer SLP

The Judges of the Commercial Section of the Court of First Instance of Barcelona and the Judges of the Commercial Courts of Alicante (European Union Trade Mark Courts) in their joint meeting on December 04, 2025, have adopted a Protocol on-call service and rapid response during the month of February and between March 2, 2026 and March 5, 2026, 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 preliminary proceedings 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 and the adoption and extension of the immediate execution of precautionary measures and/or urgent preliminary proceedings /or verification of facts proceedings to acts carried out in the metaverse or in virtual environments or to acts generated by automated mechanisms, software, algorithms or artificial intelligence systems.