Barcelona's commitment to maintaining the MWC 2021 seems happily firm. Today, May 6, the Protocol of the Commercial Court of Barcelona and the European Union Trademark Court of Alicante was made public to guarantee rapid action regarding precautionary measures and preliminary proceedings for infringement of industrial and intellectual property rights.
Aspects to consider:
- The MWC will be held between the days 28 from June to 1 from July 2021.
- The Commercial Court of Barcelona will decide on the same day of its presentation (24 hours long.) the admission of applications for preventive writings which are intended to prevent precautionary measures from being decreed without a hearing against companies that participate as exhibitors at the MWC.
- preliminary or fact-finding procedures based on copyright, patents, trademarks, designs, unfair competition or advertising in relation to products exhibited at the MWC will have preferential and priority processing and will be resolved within a period of two days (48 hours long.).
- Requests for precautionary measures They will also have preferential processing and will be resolved within the period of 48 hours long. (if granted without hearing the defendant) or 10 days (if a preview notice is granted in the event that a preventive document has been submitted by the exhibitor).
- Preliminary proceedings and precautionary measures may be directed both against acts of presentation or exhibition of products in person and against those that are carried out online and/or on any type of virtual platform.
- Hearings on precautionary measures will preferably be held electronically.
- It is now time for companies, depending on their position, to set their strategies in sufficient time to ensure an adequate judicial response. ELZABURU's proven experience in several consecutive editions of the MWC is at your service.
Access to Guard service and rapid action protocol for the Mobile World Congress 2021.
Author Enrique Armijo-Chávarri
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