Federal Act
on the Protection of Designs
(Designs Act, DesA)

¹ The right hold­er may not in­voke the re­gistered design against third parties who have used the design com­mer­cially in good faith in Switzer­land or who have made spe­cial pre­par­a­tions for that pur­pose between the last day of the time lim­it stip­u­lated for pay­ment of the fee for a fur­ther peri­od of pro­tec­tion and the day on which a re­quest for fur­ther pro­cessing (Art. 31) was filed.

² The right of par­al­lel use may only be trans­ferred to­geth­er with the busi­ness.

³ Any per­son claim­ing a right of par­al­lel use must pay the right hold­er ap­pro­pri­ate com­pens­a­tion from the date on which the design right is re­vived.