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

1 A design filed in ac­cord­ance with the leg­al pro­vi­sions shall be entered in the Re­gister.

2 The IPI shall dis­miss an ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion if the form­al re­quire­ments as set out in Art­icle 19 para­graphs 1 and 2 are not ful­filled.

³ It shall re­ject an ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion if it is evid­ent that an ab­so­lute ground for re­fus­al in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 4 let­ters a, d or e ex­ists.

4 All amend­ments con­cern­ing the valid­ity of the design right or the right to the design shall also be entered in the Re­gister. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide for the re­gis­tra­tion of fur­ther par­tic­u­lars such as dis­pos­al re­stric­tions ordered by the courts or com­puls­ory en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies.