Ordinance
on the Protection of Trade Marks and
Indications of Source¹
(TmPO)

¹The Swiss Fed­er­al In­sti­tute of In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty (IPI) is re­spons­ible for car­ry­ing out the ad­min­is­trat­ive du­ties stip­u­lated in the TmPA and for im­ple­ment­ing this Or­din­ance⁵.⁶

² Ex­cluded from this are Art­icles 70–72 TmPA and Art­icles 54–57 of this Or­din­ance. The Fed­er­al Of­fice for Cus­toms and Bor­der Se­cur­ity (FO­CBS)⁷ is re­spons­ible for their im­ple­ment­a­tion.

If a time lim­it is cal­cu­lated in months or years, it shall end in the fi­nal month on the same date of the month as the date on which it star­ted. If there is no such date, the time lim­it ends on the fi­nal day of the fi­nal month.

¹ Sub­mis­sions to the IPI must be writ­ten in an of­fi­cial lan­guage of the Con­fed­er­a­tion. The fore­go­ing is without pre­ju­dice to Art­icles 47 para­graph 3 and 52p para­graph 3.⁹

² Where of­fi­cial doc­u­ments of evid­ence are not writ­ten in an of­fi­cial lan­guage, the IPI may re­quest a trans­la­tion and a cer­ti­fic­ate con­firm­ing its ac­cur­acy; the fore­go­ing is without pre­ju­dice to Art­icle 14 para­graph 3. If the trans­la­tion or cer­ti­fic­ate is not sub­mit­ted des­pite be­ing re­ques­ted, the doc­u­ment of evid­ence will not be taken in­to ac­count.

¹ Where sev­er­al per­sons ap­ply to re­gister a trade mark or hold the right to a trade mark, they must either des­ig­nate one of them to whom the IPI may send all com­mu­nic­a­tions with ef­fect for all of them, or they must ap­point a joint rep­res­ent­at­ive.

² If neither of these con­di­tions have been met, the IPI shall des­ig­nate a re­cip­i­ent in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1. If one of the oth­er per­sons ob­jects, the IPI shall re­quest that all parties act in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1.

³ Para­graphs 1 and 2 also ap­ply to ap­plic­a­tions for in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 50d und 50e TmPA.¹¹

If the con­tested in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty right is trans­ferred dur­ing the course of pending pro­ceed­ings, Art­icle 83 of the Civil Pro­ced­ure Code¹³ ap­plies by ana­logy.

¹ If an ap­plic­ant or pro­pri­et­or is rep­res­en­ted be­fore the IPI, the IPI may re­quest a writ­ten power of at­tor­ney.

² Any per­son who has been au­thor­ised by the ap­plic­ant or pro­pri­et­or to sub­mit de­clar­a­tions provided for in the TmPA or in this Or­din­ance to the IPI and to re­ceive com­mu­nic­a­tions from the IPI on their be­half shall be entered in the Re­gister as a rep­res­ent­at­ive in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 40. If the IPI is not ex­pli­citly no­ti­fied of any re­stric­tion to the power of at­tor­ney, it is deemed com­pre­hens­ive.

¹ Sub­mis­sions must be signed.

² If a val­id sig­na­ture is miss­ing from a sub­mis­sion, the ori­gin­al date on which it was sub­mit­ted shall be re­cog­nised provided that a signed sub­mis­sion identic­al in con­tent is sub­sequently sub­mit­ted with­in one month of a re­quest from the IPI.

³ The ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion does not have to be signed. The IPI may des­ig­nate oth­er doc­u­ments that do not re­quire a sig­na­ture.

¹ The IPI may re­quest proof where it has reas­on­able doubt con­cern­ing the ac­cur­acy of a sub­mis­sion.

² The IPI shall dis­close the reas­ons for its doubt, provide an op­por­tun­ity to re­spond, and set a time lim­it for the sub­mis­sion of proof.

For fees which must be paid in ac­cord­ance with the TmPA or this Or­din­ance, the IPI Fee Or­din­ance of 14 June 2016¹⁸ ap­plies.

¹ The IPI may au­thor­ise elec­tron­ic com­mu­nic­a­tion.

² It shall de­term­ine the tech­nic­al de­tails and pub­lish them in an ap­pro­pri­ate man­ner.²⁰

¹ A form ap­proved by the IPI or a form from the Reg­u­la­tions un­der the Singa­pore Treaty on the Law of Trade­marks of 27 March 2006²¹ must be used to file the ap­plic­a­tion.²²

² If an ap­plic­a­tion that is oth­er­wise form­ally val­id con­tains all the in­form­a­tion re­quired, the IPI may waive the re­quire­ment to sub­mit the form.²³

The fil­ing date for an ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion un­der Art­icle 46aTmPAshall be the date of the cor­res­pond­ing in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion or of the ex­ten­sion of pro­tec­tion to Switzer­land.

¹ The ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion shall in­clude:

a.

the ap­plic­a­tion to re­gister the trade mark;

b.

the sur­name and first name or the com­pany name and the ad­dress of the ap­plic­ant;

c.²⁵

...

d.²⁶

...

² The fol­low­ing must be in­cluded in the ap­plic­a­tion where ap­plic­able:

a.²⁷

the ad­dress for ser­vice of the ap­plic­ant in Switzer­land;

a^bis.²⁸

in the case of two or more ap­plic­ants, the des­ig­na­tion of the re­cip­i­ent in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 4 para­graph 1 and their ad­dress for ser­vice, where ap­plic­able;

a^ter.²⁹

the name and ad­dress of the rep­res­ent­at­ive, where ap­plic­able, and their ad­dress for ser­vice in Switzer­land;

b.

the de­clar­a­tion of pri­or­ity (Art. 12–14);

c.

an in­dic­a­tion that it con­cerns a guar­an­tee mark or a col­lect­ive mark;

c^bis.³⁰

an in­dic­a­tion that it con­cerns a geo­graph­ic­al mark;

d.³¹

proof of the can­cel­la­tion of the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion and of the ex­ten­sion of pro­tec­tion to Switzer­land. If pri­or­ity is claimed for the can­celled in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion, no fur­ther pri­or­ity doc­u­ment is re­quired.

¹ The trade mark must be cap­able of be­ing rep­res­en­ted graph­ic­ally. The IPI may ac­cept oth­er forms of rep­res­ent­a­tion for spe­cial types of trade mark.³³

² If a col­our is claimed for the trade mark, the cor­res­pond­ing col­our or com­bin­a­tion of col­ours must be spe­cified. The IPI may ad­di­tion­ally re­quest the sub­mis­sion of col­oured rep­res­ent­a­tions of the trade mark.

³ If it con­cerns a spe­cial type of trade mark, for ex­ample a three-di­men­sion­al sign, this must be stated in the ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion.

The goods and ser­vices for which the trade mark is claimed must be pre­cisely named and the class num­ber un­der the Nice Agree­ment of 15 June 1957³⁵ con­cern­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Clas­si­fic­a­tion of Goods and Ser­vices (The Nice Clas­si­fic­a­tion) must be provided.

¹ The de­clar­a­tion of pri­or­ity with­in the mean­ing of the Par­is Con­ven­tion of 20 March 1883³⁶ for the Pro­tec­tion of In­dus­tri­al Prop­erty shall in­clude the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

the date of the first fil­ing;

b.

the coun­try in which or for which the fil­ing was made.

² The pri­or­ity doc­u­ment con­sists of a cer­ti­fic­ate of the first fil­ing from the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity in­dic­at­ing the fil­ing or re­gis­tra­tion num­ber of the trade mark.

³ ...³⁷

¹ The de­clar­a­tion of ex­hib­i­tion pri­or­ity shall in­clude:

a.

the ex­act name of the ex­hib­i­tion;

b.

an in­dic­a­tion of the goods or ser­vices which were ex­hib­ited un­der the trade mark.

² The pri­or­ity doc­u­ment con­sists of a cer­ti­fic­ate from the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity cer­ti­fy­ing that the goods or ser­vices bear­ing the trade mark were ex­hib­ited and in­dic­at­ing the open­ing date of the ex­hib­i­tion.

¹ The de­clar­a­tion of pri­or­ity must be sub­mit­ted no later than 30 days after the fil­ing of the trade mark. If the IPI re­quests a pri­or­ity doc­u­ment, the ap­plic­ant must sub­mit it with­in six months after the fil­ing. If the ap­plic­ant does not sub­mit the re­ques­ted doc­u­ments, the claim to pri­or­ity shall lapse.³⁸

² The de­clar­a­tion of pri­or­ity may re­late to mul­tiple first fil­ings.

³ Pri­or­ity doc­u­ments may also be sub­mit­ted in Eng­lish.

For postal items, the sub­mis­sion date is the date on which the item is giv­en to the Swiss Post to be de­livered to the IPI.

If the fil­ing does not meet the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 28 para­graph 2 TmPA, the IPI may set a time lim­it for the ap­plic­ant to com­plete the doc­u­ment­a­tion.

¹ If the fil­ing does not ful­fil the form­al re­quire­ments laid down in the TmPA or in this Or­din­ance, the IPI shall set a time lim­it for the ap­plic­ant to rem­edy the de­fi­ciency.

² If the de­fi­ciency is not remedied with­in the time lim­it, the IPI shall re­fuse the ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion in its en­tirety or in part. The IPI may set fur­ther time lim­its in ex­cep­tion­al cases.

¹ If there are grounds for re­fus­al as defined in Art­icle 30 para­graph 2 let­ters c–e of the TmPA, the IPI shall set a time lim­it for the ap­plic­ant to rem­edy the de­fi­ciency.

² If an ap­plic­a­tion is sub­mit­ted for a for­eign wine de­nom­in­a­tion to be re­gistered as a geo­graph­ic­al mark, the IPI shall con­sult the Fed­er­al Of­fice for Ag­ri­cul­ture. It shall ex­am­ine wheth­er the par­tic­u­lar re­quire­ments for the for­eign wine de­nom­in­a­tion, laid down in the wine le­gis­la­tion, are ful­filled.

³ If the de­fi­ciency is not remedied with­in the time lim­it, the IPI shall re­fuse the ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion in its en­tirety or in part. The IPI may set fur­ther time lim­its in ex­cep­tion­al cases.

For the fur­ther pro­cessing of an ap­plic­a­tion which was re­fused due to fail­ure to ob­serve a time lim­it (Art. 41 TmPA), a fur­ther pro­cessing fee must be paid.

¹ The ap­plic­ant must pay the fil­ing fee with­in the time lim­it set by the IPI.

² If the list of goods or ser­vices of the filed trade mark in­cludes more than three classes, the ap­plic­ant must pay a sur­charge for each ad­di­tion­al class. The IPI shall de­term­ine the num­ber of classes sub­ject to a sur­charge in ac­cord­ance with the list of classes un­der the Nice Agree­ment.

³ The class sur­charge must be paid with­in the time lim­it set by the IPI.

¹ The ap­plic­ant may re­quest an ac­cel­er­ated ex­am­in­a­tion.

² The re­quest shall not be con­sidered to have been filed un­til the fee for an ac­cel­er­ated ex­am­in­a­tion has been paid in ad­di­tion to the fil­ing fee.⁴⁴

¹ If there are no grounds for re­fus­al, the IPI shall re­gister the trade mark in the Trade Mark Re­gister and pub­lish the re­gis­tra­tion.

² It will provide the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark with a con­firm­a­tion of the re­gis­tra­tion. The con­firm­a­tion shall in­clude the in­form­a­tion entered in the Re­gister.⁴⁵

The op­pos­i­tion must be sub­mit­ted in two cop­ies and must in­clude:

a.⁴⁶

the sur­name and first name or the com­pany name, the ad­dress of the op­pos­ing party and, if ap­plic­able, their ad­dress for ser­vice in Switzer­land;

b.

the num­ber of the trade mark re­gis­tra­tion or the ap­plic­a­tion num­ber of the filed trade mark on which the op­pos­i­tion is based;

c.

the num­ber of the dis­puted trade mark re­gis­tra­tion as well as the name or com­pany name of the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark;

d.

a de­clar­a­tion of the ex­tent of the op­pos­i­tion to the re­gis­tra­tion;

e.

a short state­ment of reas­ons for the op­pos­i­tion.

¹ If an op­pos­ing party who is re­quired un­der Art­icle 42 TmPA to in­dic­ate an ad­dress for ser­vice in Switzer­land does not provide this when fil­ing the op­pos­i­tion, the IPI shall set a grace peri­od. The IPI shall also in­form the op­pos­ing party that fail­ure to com­ply be­fore ex­piry of the grace peri­od will res­ult in the dis­missal of the op­pos­i­tion.

² A de­fend­ant who must in­dic­ate an ad­dress for ser­vice in Switzer­land must provide this with­in the time lim­it set by the IPI. The IPI shall in­form the de­fend­ant that they will be ex­cluded from the pro­ceed­ings if they fail to ful­fil this ob­lig­a­tion.

¹ The IPI shall bring any op­pos­i­tion that is not mani­festly in­ad­miss­ible to the at­ten­tion of the de­fend­ant and shall set a time lim­it for re­sponse.

² The de­fend­ant must sub­mit two cop­ies of the re­sponse.

³ In the de­fend­ant’s first re­sponse, the de­fend­ant must in­voke any non-use of the op­pos­ing party’s trade mark in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 12 para­graph 1 TmPA; however, this is only per­mit­ted if, at that time, an un­in­ter­rup­ted peri­od of five years has elapsed fol­low­ing the ex­piry of the op­pos­i­tion peri­od with no op­pos­i­tion hav­ing been filed, or upon con­clu­sion of the op­pos­i­tion pro­ceed­ings.⁴⁸

⁴ The IPI may enter in­to fur­ther ex­changes of writ­ten sub­mis­sions.

¹ If mul­tiple op­pos­i­tions are sub­mit­ted against the same trade mark re­gis­tra­tion, the IPI shall bring the op­pos­i­tions to the at­ten­tion of all op­pos­ing parties. It may com­bine the hand­ling of the op­pos­i­tions in one pro­ced­ure.

² If the IPI deems it ne­ces­sary, it may first ex­am­ine one of the mul­tiple op­pos­i­tions, make a de­cision on it and sus­pend the oth­er op­pos­i­tion pro­ceed­ings.⁵⁰

³ Where the op­pos­i­tion is based on the fil­ing of a trade mark ap­plic­a­tion, the IPI may sus­pend op­pos­i­tion pro­ceed­ings un­til the trade mark is re­gistered.⁵¹

⁴ The IPI may sus­pend op­pos­i­tion pro­ceed­ings if the de­cision on the op­pos­i­tion de­pends on the out­come of can­cel­la­tion pro­ceed­ings on the grounds of non-use, civil pro­ceed­ings or oth­er pro­ceed­ings.⁵²

¹ If an op­pos­i­tion is not sub­mit­ted with­in the time lim­it or if the op­pos­i­tion fee is not paid on time, the op­pos­i­tion shall be con­sidered not to have been filed. No costs shall be in­curred; any op­pos­i­tion fee that has already been paid shall be re­im­bursed.

² If a pro­ceed­ing be­comes ground­less or is settled or with­drawn, half of the op­pos­i­tion fee shall be re­im­bursed.

The re­quest for can­cel­la­tion of a trade mark re­gis­tra­tion on the grounds of non-use of the trade mark must be sub­mit­ted in two cop­ies and must in­clude:

a.

the sur­name and first name or the com­pany name, the ad­dress of the ap­plic­ant and, where ap­plic­able, their ad­dress for ser­vice in Switzer­land;

b.

the num­ber of the trade mark re­gis­tra­tion for which a can­cel­la­tion is re­ques­ted, as well as the name or com­pany of the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark;

c.

a de­clar­a­tion of the ex­tent of the can­cel­la­tion;

d.

an ex­plan­a­tion of the re­quest for can­cel­la­tion which, in par­tic­u­lar, sub­stan­ti­ates the claim of non-use;

e.

evid­ence.

¹ If an ap­plic­ant who is re­quired un­der Art­icle 42 TmPA to in­dic­ate an ad­dress for ser­vice in Switzer­land does not provide this when fil­ing the re­quest, the IPI shall grant a grace peri­od. The IPI shall also in­form the ap­plic­ant that fail­ure to com­ply be­fore ex­piry of the grace peri­od will res­ult in dis­missal of the re­quest.

² A de­fend­ant who must in­dic­ate an ad­dress for ser­vice in Switzer­land must provide this with­in the time lim­it set by the IPI. The IPI shall in­form the de­fend­ant that the de­fend­ant will be ex­cluded from the pro­ceed­ings if the de­fend­ant fails to ful­fil this ob­lig­a­tion.

¹ The IPI shall bring any re­quest for can­cel­la­tion that is not mani­festly in­ad­miss­ible to the at­ten­tion of the de­fend­ant and shall set a time lim­it for re­sponse.

² The de­fend­ant must sub­mit two cop­ies of the re­sponse.

³ In their re­sponse, the de­fend­ant must sub­stan­ti­ate, in par­tic­u­lar, the use of the trade mark or prop­er reas­ons for its non-use.

⁴ The IPI shall enter in­to fur­ther ex­changes of writ­ten sub­mis­sions where jus­ti­fied by the cir­cum­stances.

¹ Art­icle 23 para­graphs 1 and 2 shall ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis for the can­cel­la­tion of a trade mark re­gis­tra­tion on the grounds of non-use of the trade mark.

² The IPI may sus­pend pro­ceed­ings if the de­cision on the can­cel­la­tion de­pends on the out­come of civil pro­ceed­ings or oth­er pro­ceed­ings.

¹ If the re­quest for can­cel­la­tion is sub­mit­ted be­fore the ex­piry of the time lim­it un­der Art­icle 35a para­graph 2 TmPA and Art­icle 50a of this Or­din­ance or if the can­cel­la­tion fee is not paid on time, the re­quest shall be con­sidered not to have been filed. No charges shall be in­curred; any can­cel­la­tion fee that has already been paid shall be re­im­bursed.

² If a pro­ceed­ing be­comes ground­less or is settled or with­drawn, half of the can­cel­la­tion fee shall be re­im­bursed. If the re­quire­ments un­der Art­icle 33b of the Fed­er­al Act on Ad­min­is­trat­ive Pro­ced­ure of 20 Decem­ber 1968⁵⁵ (APA) are ful­filled, the fee shall be fully re­im­bursed.⁵⁶

Be­fore the term of valid­ity ex­pires, the IPI may re­mind the right hold­er entered in the Re­gister, or their rep­res­ent­at­ive, about the date of ex­piry and the pos­sib­il­ity of re­new­al. The IPI may also send such no­ti­fic­a­tions abroad.

¹ The ap­plic­a­tion for re­new­al of a trade mark re­gis­tra­tion may be sub­mit­ted, at the earli­est, twelve months pri­or to the ex­piry of the term of valid­ity.⁵⁹

² The re­new­al takes ef­fect on ex­piry of the pre­vi­ous term of valid­ity.

³ The IPI shall provide the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark with a con­firm­a­tion of the re­new­al of the re­gis­tra­tion.⁶⁰

⁴ The re­new­al fee must be paid with­in the time lim­its un­der Art­icle 10 para­graph 3 TmPA.⁶¹

⁵ If the re­new­al fee is paid after the ex­piry of the term of valid­ity, a sur­charge must be paid.⁶²

If an ap­plic­a­tion for re­new­al has been sub­mit­ted and it does not res­ult in the re­new­al of the re­gis­tra­tion, the re­new­al fee shall be re­im­bursed.

¹ The re­quest for re­gis­tra­tion of the as­sign­ment must be made by the former pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark or the ac­quirer and must in­clude:

a.

an ex­press de­clar­a­tion by the former pro­pri­et­or or an­oth­er sat­is­fact­ory doc­u­ment stat­ing that the trade mark has been trans­ferred to the ac­quirer;

b.⁶⁴

the sur­name and first name or com­pany name, the ad­dress of the ac­quirer and, where ap­plic­able, their ad­dress for ser­vice in Switzer­land;

c.

in the case of par­tial as­sign­ment, an in­dic­a­tion of the goods or ser­vices for which the trade mark has been as­signed.

²...⁶⁵

¹ The re­quest for the re­gis­tra­tion of a li­cence must be made by the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark or by the li­censee and must in­clude:

a.

an ex­press de­clar­a­tion by the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark or an­oth­er sat­is­fact­ory doc­u­ment stat­ing that the pro­pri­et­or au­thor­ises the li­censee to use the trade mark;

b.

the sur­name and first name or com­pany name as well as the ad­dress of the li­censee;

c.

the re­quest that the li­cence be re­gistered as an ex­clus­ive li­cence where ap­plic­able;

d.

in the case of a par­tial li­cence, an in­dic­a­tion of the goods and ser­vices or the ter­rit­ory for which the li­cence is gran­ted.

² For the re­gis­tra­tion of a sub-li­cence, para­graph 1 ap­plies. In ad­di­tion, it must be proven that the li­censee is au­thor­ised to grant sub-li­cences.

³ As long as an ex­clus­ive li­cence is entered in the Re­gister, no oth­er li­cences that are in­com­pat­ible with the ex­clus­ive li­cence shall be entered in the Re­gister for the same trade mark.⁶⁶

On the basis of an ap­pro­pri­ate de­clar­a­tion by the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark or an­oth­er sat­is­fact­ory doc­u­ment, the IPI shall re­gister:

a.

the usu­fruct of the trade mark and pledging of the trade mark;

b.

re­stric­tions on powers of dis­pos­al ordered by courts and com­puls­ory en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies;

c.

amend­ments con­cern­ing re­gistered in­form­a­tion.

On the re­quest of the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark, the IPI shall can­cel a right re­gistered in fa­vour of a third party if an ex­press waiver by the hold­er of this right or an­oth­er sat­is­fact­ory doc­u­ment is presen­ted.

¹ In­cor­rect re­gister entries shall be rec­ti­fied without delay at the re­quest of the trade mark pro­pri­et­or.

² If the er­ror res­ults from an over­sight by the IPI, it shall be rec­ti­fied ex of­fi­cio.

Par­tial or full can­cel­la­tion of the trade mark re­gis­tra­tion is free of charge. Can­cel­la­tion on the grounds of non-use is not free of charge.

¹ The IPI shall main­tain a dossier for each ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion and each trade mark re­gis­tra­tion, con­tain­ing the fol­low­ing:

a.

the stages of the re­gis­tra­tion pro­ced­ure, any op­pos­i­tion pro­ceed­ings and any can­cel­la­tion pro­ced­ures on the grounds of non-use;

b.

the re­new­al and can­cel­la­tion of the re­gis­tra­tion, any in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion as well as any amend­ments to trade mark law;

c.

oth­er amend­ments to the trade mark re­gis­tra­tion.⁶⁹

² The reg­u­la­tions for a guar­an­tee or col­lect­ive mark or the reg­u­la­tions for a geo­graph­ic­al mark must also be in­cluded in the dossier.⁷⁰

³ Of­fi­cial doc­u­ments of evid­ence that dis­close man­u­fac­tur­ing or trade secrets shall be filed sep­ar­ately on re­quest. This will be noted in the dossier.⁷¹

⁴ ...⁷²

¹ Pri­or to the re­gis­tra­tion of the trade mark, the dossier may be in­spec­ted by:

a.

the ap­plic­ant and their rep­res­ent­at­ive;

b.

per­sons who prove that the ap­plic­ant is ac­cus­ing them of in­fringing the ap­plic­ant’s right to the filed trade mark or has warned them of such an in­fringe­ment;

c.

oth­er per­sons with the ex­press con­sent of the ap­plic­ant or their rep­res­ent­at­ive.

² The per­sons named in para­graph 1 may also in­spect the files re­lat­ing to ap­plic­a­tions for re­gis­tra­tion that have been with­drawn or re­jec­ted.

³ Any­one may in­spect the dossier after the trade mark has been entered in the Re­gister, provided that the pub­lic­a­tion has not been de­ferred.

⁴ The IPI shall make a de­cision re­gard­ing the in­spec­tion of sep­ar­ately filed of­fi­cial doc­u­ments of evid­ence (Art. 36 para. 3) fol­low­ing con­sulta­tion with the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark.

⁵ On re­quest, the files to be in­spec­ted shall be is­sued in the form of cop­ies.⁷³

¹ The IPI shall provide third parties with in­form­a­tion on ap­plic­a­tions for re­gis­tra­tion in­clud­ing with­drawn or re­jec­ted ap­plic­a­tions.⁷⁴

² The in­form­a­tion shall be lim­ited to:

a.

de­tails which are pub­lished when a trade mark is re­gistered;

b.

de­tails of the reas­ons for the re­fus­al of an ap­plic­a­tion.⁷⁵

¹ The IPI shall re­tain the ori­gin­als or cop­ies of the files of com­pletely can­celled re­gister entries for five years fol­low­ing the can­cel­la­tion.

² The IPI shall re­tain the ori­gin­als or cop­ies of the files of with­drawn, re­fused or fully re­voked re­gis­tra­tions (Art. 33 TmPA) for five years fol­low­ing the with­draw­al, re­fus­al or re­voc­a­tion.⁷⁶

³ ...⁷⁷

¹ The entry of a trade mark in the Re­gister shall in­clude:

a.

the num­ber of the re­gis­tra­tion;

b.

the fil­ing date;

c.

the sur­name and first name or the com­pany name as well as the ad­dress of the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark;

d.

the name and ad­dress of the rep­res­ent­at­ive, where ap­plic­able;

e.

a rep­res­ent­a­tion of the trade mark;

f.⁷⁸

the goods and ser­vices for which the trade mark is claimed, with an in­dic­a­tion of the classes un­der the Nice Clas­si­fic­a­tion⁷⁹;

g.

the date of pub­lic­a­tion of the re­gis­tra­tion;

h.⁸⁰

de­tails of the re­place­ment of a former na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion by an in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion;

i.⁸¹

the date of re­gis­tra­tion;

k.⁸²

the num­ber of the ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion.

² Where ap­plic­able, the re­gis­tra­tion shall also in­clude the fol­low­ing:

a.

an in­dic­a­tion of the col­our or col­our com­bin­a­tion claimed;

b.⁸³

the words «three-di­men­sion­al trade mark» or oth­er in­dic­a­tions which spe­cify the par­tic­u­lar type of trade mark;

c.

the words «trade mark which has ac­quired dis­tinct­ive­ness through use»;

d.

an in­dic­a­tion that it is a guar­an­tee or a col­lect­ive mark;

d^bis.⁸⁴

an in­dic­a­tion that it is a geo­graph­ic­al mark;

e.

in­form­a­tion con­cern­ing the pri­or­ity claim in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 7 and 8 TmPA;

f.⁸⁵

...

³ In ad­di­tion to the date of pub­lic­a­tion, the fol­low­ing shall be entered in the Trade Mark Re­gister:

a.

the re­new­al of the trade mark re­gis­tra­tion and the date on which the re­new­al comes in­to ef­fect;

b.

the com­plete or par­tial re­voc­a­tion of the trade mark re­gis­tra­tion;

c.

the com­plete or par­tial can­cel­la­tion of the trade mark re­gis­tra­tion with the reas­on for the can­cel­la­tion;

d.

the com­plete or par­tial as­sign­ment of the trade mark;

e.⁸⁶

the grant of a li­cence or sub-li­cence, where ap­plic­able, with an in­dic­a­tion as to wheth­er it con­cerns an ex­clus­ive li­cence or a par­tial li­cence;

f.

the usu­fruct of the trade mark and pledging of the trade mark;

g.

re­stric­tions on powers of dis­pos­al ordered by the courts and com­puls­ory en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies;

h.

amend­ments con­cern­ing re­gistered in­form­a­tion;

i.

ref­er­ence to any amend­ment to the reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing the use of the trade mark.

⁴ The IPI may enter oth­er in­form­a­tion of pub­lic in­terest.

¹ Any­one may in­spect the Trade Mark Re­gister.

² The IPI shall is­sue ex­tracts from the Trade Mark Re­gister.⁸⁹

The IPI will pre­pare a pri­or­ity doc­u­ment for a Swiss first fil­ing on re­quest.

The IPI shall pub­lish:

a.

the re­gis­tra­tion of the trade mark in­clud­ing the in­form­a­tion un­der Art­icle 40 para­graph 1 let­ters a–f and para­graph 2 let­ters a–e;

b.

the entries un­der Art­icle 40 para­graph 3;

c.

the in­form­a­tion un­der Art­icle 40 para­graph 4 where its pub­lic­a­tion ap­pears ap­pro­pri­ate.

¹ The IPI shall de­term­ine the or­gan of pub­lic­a­tion.

² On re­quest and sub­ject to a fee, it shall make pa­per cop­ies of data that has only been pub­lished elec­tron­ic­ally.

¹ The ap­plic­a­tion for in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion of a trade mark or of an ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion must be sub­mit­ted to the IPI if Switzer­land is the coun­try of ori­gin as defined in Art­icle 1 para­graph 3 of the Mad­rid Agree­ment of 14 Ju­ly 1967⁹⁶ con­cern­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Re­gis­tra­tion of Marks (Mad­rid Agree­ment) or as defined in Art­icle 2 para­graph 1 of the Pro­tocol of 27 June 1989⁹⁷ re­lat­ing to the Mad­rid Agree­ment con­cern­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Re­gis­tra­tion of Marks (Mad­rid Pro­tocol).⁹⁸

² Either a form from the In­ter­na­tion­al Bur­eau of the World In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty Or­gan­iz­a­tion (WIPO) or a form ap­proved by the IPI must be used to file the ap­plic­a­tion.⁹⁹

^2bis If an ap­plic­a­tion that is oth­er­wise form­ally val­id con­tains all the in­form­a­tion re­quired, the IPI may waive the re­quire­ment to sub­mit the form.¹⁰⁰

³ The IPI shall de­term­ine the lan­guage in which the goods and ser­vices for which the trade mark or the ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion is claimed must be in­dic­ated.¹⁰¹

⁴ The na­tion­al fee (Art­icle 45 para­graph 2 TmPA) must be paid at the re­quest by the IPI.¹⁰²

¹ If an ap­plic­a­tion filed with the IPI does not ful­fil the form­al re­quire­ments of the TmPA, this Or­din­ance or the Com­mon Reg­u­la­tions to the Mad­rid Agree­ment of 18 Janu­ary 1996¹⁰³ and the Mad­rid Pro­tocol, or if the pre­scribed fees are not paid, the IPI shall set the ap­plic­ant a time lim­it to rem­edy the de­fi­ciency.¹⁰⁴

² If the ap­plic­ant does not rem­edy the de­fi­ciency with­in the time lim­it, the IPI shall re­fuse the ap­plic­a­tion. The IPI may set fur­ther time lim­its in ex­cep­tion­al cases.

¹ The IPI shall main­tain a dossier for each in­ter­na­tion­ally re­gistered trade mark with Switzer­land as the coun­try of ori­gin.

²...¹⁰⁵

¹ In the case of an op­pos­i­tion to an in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion, the op­pos­i­tion peri­od un­der Art­icle 31 para­graph 2 TmPA shall be­gin on the first day of the month fol­low­ing the month of pub­lic­a­tion in the or­gan of pub­lic­a­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Bur­eau of WIPO.¹⁰⁶

² The IPI shall main­tain a dossier in which the stages of the op­pos­i­tion pro­ceed­ings are re­cor­ded.

³ ...¹⁰⁷

The re­quest for can­cel­la­tion of an in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion on the grounds of non-use may be filed at the earli­est:

a.

if a no­ti­fic­a­tion of a pro­vi­sion­al re­fus­al of pro­tec­tion has been is­sued: five years after the con­clu­sion of the pro­ced­ure for the grant of pro­tec­tion in Switzer­land;

b.

if no re­fus­al of pro­tec­tion has been is­sued: five years after ex­piry of the time lim­it for no­ti­fic­a­tion of the re­fus­al of pro­tec­tion or five years fol­low­ing the state­ment of grant of pro­tec­tion.

¹ If the op­pos­i­tion is based on an in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion which is the sub­ject of a pro­vi­sion­al re­fus­al of pro­tec­tion by the IPI, the IPI may sus­pend the de­cision on the op­pos­i­tion un­til a fi­nal de­cision on the re­fus­al of pro­tec­tion has been taken.

² If the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion lapses and a con­ver­sion in­to a na­tion­al ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion is pos­sible in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 46a TmPA, the IPI may sus­pend the de­cision on the op­pos­i­tion un­til the con­ver­sion has taken place.¹⁰⁹

¹ The fol­low­ing ap­plies for in­ter­na­tion­ally re­gistered trade marks:

a.

the re­fus­al of pro­tec­tion shall re­place the re­fus­al of an ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion un­der Art­icle 30 para­graph 2 let­ters a and c–e TmPA and the re­voc­a­tion of the re­gis­tra­tion un­der Art­icle 33 TmPA;

b.

the in­val­id­a­tion shall re­place the can­cel­la­tion of the re­gis­tra­tion un­der Art­icle 35 let­ters c–e TmPA.

² The IPI shall not pub­lish the re­fus­al of pro­tec­tion nor the in­val­id­a­tion.

¹ This Chapter reg­u­lates the use of in­dic­a­tions of source for:

a.

products un­der Art­icle 48c TmPA;

b.

ser­vices un­der Art­icle 49 TmPA.

² For food­stuffs, the Or­din­ance of 2 Septem­ber 2015¹¹² on the Use of Swiss In­dic­a­tions of Source for Food­stuffs as well as Art­icles 52c and 52d of this Or­din­ance ap­ply.

In this Or­din­ance:

a.

Products un­der Art­icle 48c TmPA means products which do not fall un­der the cat­egory of nat­ur­al products or food­stuffs, in par­tic­u­lar in­dus­tri­al products;

b.

Nat­ur­al products means products un­der Art­icle 48aTmPA which come dir­ectly from nature and are not pro­cessed for pla­cing on the mar­ket;

c.

Ma­ter­i­alsmeans raw ma­ter­i­als in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 48cTmPA;they in­clude the ac­tu­al raw ma­ter­i­als as well as aux­il­i­ary ma­ter­i­als and semi-fin­ished products.

If goods or ser­vices ful­fil the leg­al cri­ter­ia of ori­gin for Switzer­land as a whole, they may be la­belled with a ref­er­ence to a re­gion or place in Switzer­land. They must ful­fil ad­di­tion­al re­quire­ments if:

a.

a par­tic­u­lar qual­ity or an­oth­er char­ac­ter­ist­ic of the goods or ser­vice is es­sen­tially due to the geo­graph­ic­al ori­gin in­dic­ated; or

b.

the re­gion or place gives the goods or ser­vice a par­tic­u­lar repu­ta­tion.

¹ It is pro­hib­ited to mis­use any flex­ib­il­ity in ap­ply­ing the cri­ter­ia when de­term­in­ing the place of ori­gin of a product or ser­vice.

² The fol­low­ing, in par­tic­u­lar, con­sti­tute mis­use:

a.

us­ing dif­fer­ent meth­ods, without ob­ject­ive jus­ti­fic­a­tion, to cal­cu­late the costs of ma­ter­i­als that con­sti­tute the goods when de­term­in­ing their place of ori­gin; or

b.

if the user’s activ­ity that took place in Switzer­land is so minor that it is in ob­vi­ous dis­pro­por­tion to the activ­ity abroad, in par­tic­u­lar if the costs in­curred in Switzer­land are neg­li­gible in com­par­is­on to the costs of ma­ter­i­als that had to be pur­chased abroad due to their in­suf­fi­cient avail­ab­il­ity in Switzer­land.

¹ The fol­low­ing costs are con­sidered as man­u­fac­tur­ing costs un­der Art­icle 48c para­graphs 1 and 2 TmPA:

a.

re­search and de­vel­op­ment costs;

b.

ma­ter­i­al costs;

c.

pro­duc­tion costs in­clud­ing costs for the qual­ity as­sur­ance and cer­ti­fic­a­tion which are pre­scribed by law or stand­ard­ised in an eco­nom­ic sec­tor.

² Costs in­curred after the con­clu­sion of the pro­duc­tion pro­cess are not con­sidered to be man­u­fac­tur­ing costs.

¹ Re­search costs in­clude the costs for product-re­lated re­search and non-product re­lated re­search.

² De­vel­op­ment costs are the costs which are in­curred from the con­cep­tion of the product up un­til it is mar­ket-ready.

¹ Product-re­lated re­search costs and de­vel­op­ment costs are dir­ectly al­loc­ated to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs of the product.

² Non-product re­lated re­search costs are al­loc­ated to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs of the in­di­vidu­al products by a suit­able al­loc­a­tion key.

³ The re­search and de­vel­op­ment costs may be al­loc­ated to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs fol­low­ing the end of the de­pre­ci­ation peri­od cus­tom­ary in the in­dustry. The amount al­loc­ated cor­res­ponds to the av­er­age an­nu­al de­pre­ci­ation of the re­search and de­vel­op­ment costs dur­ing the de­pre­ci­ation peri­od cus­tom­ary in the in­dustry.

¹ Ma­ter­i­al costs in­clude dir­ect and in­dir­ect ma­ter­i­al costs.

² Dir­ect ma­ter­i­al costs are the ma­ter­i­al costs which are dir­ectly at­trib­ut­able to a product.

³ In­dir­ect ma­ter­i­al costs are con­sidered to be ma­ter­i­al costs not covered by para­graph 2, in par­tic­u­lar, costs in­curred for tem­por­ary stor­age or trans­port dur­ing the pro­duc­tion pro­cess.

¹ The dir­ect ma­ter­i­al costs are al­loc­ated to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs of the product us­ing a stand­ard­ised meth­od of cal­cu­la­tion, in par­tic­u­lar, ac­cord­ing to one of the fol­low­ing cal­cu­la­tion meth­ods:

a.

the dir­ect ma­ter­i­al costs are al­loc­ated to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs at the per­cent­age which cor­res­ponds to the share of the costs of ma­ter­i­als in­curred in Switzer­land;

b.

the dir­ect ma­ter­i­al costs are al­loc­ated to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs at the fol­low­ing per­cent­ages:

1.

100 per cent for ma­ter­i­als which ful­fil the re­quire­ments of Art­icles 48–48c TmPA,

2.

0 per cent for ma­ter­i­als which do not ful­fil the re­quire­ments of Art­icles 48–48c TmPA.

² The in­dir­ect ma­ter­i­al costs shall be al­loc­ated, by suit­able means, to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs of the in­di­vidu­al products.

The costs for aux­il­i­ary ma­ter­i­als do not need to be al­loc­ated to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs if:

a.

the aux­il­i­ary ma­ter­i­als are of com­pletely sec­ond­ary sig­ni­fic­ance to the char­ac­ter­ist­ics of the products; and

b.

the costs for the aux­il­i­ary ma­ter­i­als are neg­li­gible in com­par­is­on to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs of the product.

If a ma­ter­i­al is not avail­able in suf­fi­cient quant­it­ies in Switzer­land ac­cord­ing to pub­licly ac­cess­ible in­dustry in­form­a­tion, the man­u­fac­turer may as­sume that they are per­mit­ted to ex­clude the costs of ma­ter­i­als pur­chased abroad, up to the in­dic­ated un­avail­ab­il­ity rate, from the cal­cu­la­tion of the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs.

¹ The pro­duc­tion costs con­sist of dir­ect pro­duc­tion costs and in­dir­ect pro­duc­tion costs.

² Pro­duc­tion costs in­clude, in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

salar­ies;

b.

salary-re­lated pro­duc­tion costs;

c.

ma­chine-re­lated pro­duc­tion costs;

d.

costs for qual­ity as­sur­ance and cer­ti­fic­a­tion which are pre­scribed by law or stand­ard­ised in an eco­nom­ic sec­tor.

¹ Dir­ect pro­duc­tion costs are dir­ectly al­loc­ated to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs of the product.

² In­dir­ect pro­duc­tion costs are al­loc­ated to the man­u­fac­tur­ing costs of the in­di­vidu­al products by a suit­able key.

Man­u­fac­tur­ing costs in­curred abroad may be con­ver­ted in­to Swiss francs as fol­lows:

a.

at the cur­rent ex­change rate; or

b.

at the av­er­age rate used by the com­pany in its daily busi­ness.

A place of ef­fect­ive ad­min­is­tra­tion un­der Art­icle 49 TmPA is pre­sumed to be the place where:

a.

the activ­it­ies which are es­sen­tial to the ful­fil­ment of the com­mer­cial pur­pose are car­ried out; and

b.

the de­cisions which de­term­ine the pro­vi­sion of the ser­vice are made.

¹ The ap­plic­a­tion for the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion or the amend­ment of the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion of an ap­pel­la­tion of ori­gin or a geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tion whose geo­graph­ic­al area of ori­gin lies on Swiss ter­rit­ory must be filed with the IPI.

² Either a form from the In­ter­na­tion­al Bur­eau of WIPO or a form ap­proved by the IPI must be used to file the ap­plic­a­tion.

³ The ap­plic­a­tion must be filed in French.

⁴ The IPI shall main­tain a dossier for each ap­plic­a­tion.

¹ The IPI shall de­cide wheth­er the ap­plic­a­tion for in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion or the amend­ment of an in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion meets the re­quire­ments un­der the TmPA, this Or­din­ance and the Geneva Act and its Reg­u­la­tions.

² If an ap­plic­a­tion does not meet the re­quire­ments or if the pre­scribed fees have not been paid, the IPI shall set the ap­plic­ant a time lim­it to rem­edy the de­fi­ciency.

³ If the ap­plic­ant does not rem­edy the de­fi­ciency with­in the time lim­it, the ap­plic­a­tion shall be re­fused. The IPI may set fur­ther time lim­its in ex­cep­tion­al cases.

¹ Ap­plic­a­tions in­vok­ing a ground un­der Art­icle 50epara­graph 1 TmPA and ap­plic­a­tions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 50e para­graph 4 TmPA may be sub­mit­ted:

a.

by any party in ac­cord­ance with the APA¹¹⁴;

b.

by a can­ton if it con­cerns a for­eign de­nom­in­a­tion that is the same as or sim­il­ar to that of a can­ton­al geo­graph­ic­al unit or a tra­di­tion­al de­nom­in­a­tion used in Switzer­land.

² Ap­plic­a­tions must be sub­mit­ted in writ­ing to the IPI with­in three months of the pub­lic­a­tion of the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion by the In­ter­na­tion­al Bur­eau. The time lim­it shall be­gin on the first day of the month fol­low­ing the pub­lic­a­tion in the or­gan of pub­lic­a­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Bur­eau of WIPO.

³ Art­icles 20–24 ap­ply by ana­logy.

⁴ The IPI may in­vite the af­fected fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies to com­ment.

¹ Swiss watches and watch move­ments as defined in the Or­din­ance of 23 Decem­ber 1971¹¹⁵ on the Use of the Des­ig­na­tion «Swiss» for Watches must dis­play the iden­ti­fic­a­tion mark of the man­u­fac­turer. On watches, the iden­ti­fic­a­tion mark must be placed on the case or on the dial.

² The pro­du­cer iden­ti­fic­a­tion mark must be clearly vis­ible and per­man­ently af­fixed. In­stead of the pro­du­cer iden­ti­fic­a­tion mark, the com­pany name or a trade mark owned by the man­u­fac­turer may be af­fixed.

³ It may only be used for Swiss products.

⁴ The Fed­er­a­tion of the Swiss Watch In­dustry FH is­sues the pro­du­cer iden­ti­fic­a­tion marks and main­tains a cor­res­pond­ing re­gister.

⁵ The grounds for re­fus­al un­der Art­icle 3 para­graph 1 TmPA also ap­ply to pro­du­cer iden­ti­fic­a­tion marks.

The as­sist­ance provided by the FO­CBS shall ex­tend to the move­ment of goods which un­law­fully bear a trade mark or an in­dic­a­tion of source in­to or out of the cus­toms ter­rit­ory.

¹ The pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark, the li­censee en­titled to in­sti­tute pro­ceed­ings, the per­son en­titled to use an in­dic­a­tion of source or a party (ap­plic­ant) en­titled to in­sti­tute pro­ceed­ings un­der Art­icle 56 TmPA, must sub­mit the ap­plic­a­tion for as­sist­ance to the Dir­ect­or­ate Gen­er­al of Cus­toms.¹¹⁷

^1bis The Dir­ect­or­ate Gen­er­al of Cus­toms shall make a de­cision on the ap­plic­a­tion no later than 40 days after re­ceipt of the com­plete doc­u­ment­a­tion.¹¹⁸

² The ap­plic­a­tion is val­id for a peri­od of two years un­less a short­er peri­od of valid­ity is re­ques­ted. It may be re­newed.

¹ If the cus­toms of­fice with­holds goods, it shall re­tain the goods for a fee or shall place them in the cus­tody of a third party at the cost of the ap­plic­ant.¹¹⁹

² It shall provide the ap­plic­ant with the name and ad­dress of the de­clar­ant, hold­er or own­er, a pre­cise de­scrip­tion and the quant­ity, and de­tails of the sender of the with­held goods in Switzer­land or abroad.¹²⁰

³ If it is es­tab­lished pri­or to the ex­piry of the time lim­its un­der Art­icle 72 para­graphs 2 and 3 TmPA that the ap­plic­ant is un­able to ob­tain pre­lim­in­ary meas­ures, the goods shall be re­leased im­me­di­ately.¹²¹

¹ The ap­plic­ant may re­quest that the spe­ci­mens or samples are handed over or de­livered to them for ex­am­in­a­tion or that the items are in­spec­ted. In­stead of spe­ci­mens or samples, the FO­CBS may provide the ap­plic­ant with pho­to­graphs of the with­held goods if this en­ables the ap­plic­ant to as­sess the goods.

² The re­quest may be sub­mit­ted with the ap­plic­a­tion for as­sist­ance to the Dir­ect­or­ate Gen­er­al of Cus­toms or, while the goods are be­ing with­held, dir­ectly to the cus­toms of­fice that is with­hold­ing the goods.

¹ The FO­CBS shall in­form the de­clar­ant, hold­er or own­er of the goods of the pos­sib­il­ity of re­fus­ing to take spe­ci­mens or samples on present­a­tion of a reasoned re­quest. It shall set a suit­able time lim­it for him or her to sub­mit the re­quest.

² If the FO­CBS per­mits the ap­plic­ant to in­spect the with­held goods, it shall take ap­pro­pri­ate con­sid­er­a­tion of the in­terests of the ap­plic­ant and the de­clar­ant or hold­er or own­er when de­term­in­ing the date of in­spec­tion.

¹ The FO­CBS shall keep the spe­ci­mens or samples col­lec­ted for a peri­od of one year start­ing from the date of no­ti­fic­a­tion of the de­clar­ant, right hold­er or own­er in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 72 para­graph 1 TmPA. After this time lim­it ex­pires, it shall re­quest the de­clar­ant, hold­er or own­er to take pos­ses­sion of the spe­ci­mens or samples or bear the costs of their con­tin­ued safe­keep­ing. If the de­clar­ant, hold­er or own­er is not will­ing to do so or does not re­spond to this re­quest with­in 30 days, the FO­CBS shall des­troy the spe­ci­mens or samples.

² In­stead of col­lect­ing spe­ci­mens or samples, the FO­CBS may take pho­to­graphs of the des­troyed goods, provided this serves the pur­pose of pre­serving evid­ence.

The fees for as­sist­ance provided by the FO­CBS are gov­erned by the Or­din­ance of 4 April 2007¹²⁶ on the Fees charged by the Fed­er­al Of­fice for Cus­toms and Bor­der Se­cur­ity.

The fol­low­ing are re­pealed:

a.

the Or­din­ance of 24 April 1929¹²⁷ on the Pro­tec­tion of Fact­ory and Trade Marks (TmPO);

b.

The Fed­er­al Coun­cil De­cree of 4 Novem­ber 1966¹²⁸ con­cern­ing the Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Mad­rid Agree­ment on the In­ter­na­tion­al Re­gis­tra­tion of Fact­ory and Trade Marks.

Time lim­its set by the IPI that are run­ning on the day this Or­din­ance comes in­to force shall re­main un­changed.

¹ For the fil­ing of a trade mark in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 78 para­graph 1 TmPA, the date on which use of the trade mark com­menced shall be entered in the Trade Mark Re­gister and pub­lished.

² If it con­cerns an in­ter­na­tion­ally re­gistered trade mark, the rel­ev­ant in­form­a­tion must be provided to the IPI by the end of the month of pub­lic­a­tion of the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion; the date on which the use of the trade mark com­menced shall be entered in a spe­cial re­gister and pub­lished.

Products man­u­fac­tured be­fore the com­mence­ment of the Amend­ment of 2 Septem­ber 2015 may be placed on the mar­ket for the first time with an in­dic­a­tion of source that com­plies with the law in force only un­til 31 Decem­ber 2018.

Un­til the or­gan of pub­lic­a­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Bur­eau of WIPO is op­er­a­tion­al, the IPI shall pub­lish the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tions of ap­pel­la­tions of ori­gin and geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tions whose pro­tec­tion on Swiss ter­rit­ory has been re­ques­ted in the Fed­er­al Gaz­ette.

This Or­din­ance comes in­to force on 1 April 1993.