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

of 5 October 2001 (Status as of 1 July 2023)


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Art. 46 Notification of suspicious goods 27

1 The Fed­er­al Of­fice for Cus­toms and Bor­der Se­cur­ity (FO­CBS) is au­thor­ised to no­ti­fy the right hold­er of a filed design if there is any sus­pi­cion that un­law­fully man­u­fac­tured items may im­min­ently be brought in­to or taken out of Swiss cus­toms ter­rit­ory.28

2 In such cases, the FO­CBS29 is au­thor­ised to with­hold the items for three work­ing days in or­der that the right hold­er may file an ap­plic­a­tion un­der Art­icle 47.

27 Amended by An­nex No 4 of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2008 (AS 2008 2551; BBl 2006 1).

28 Amended by No I 4 of the O of 12 June 2020 on the Amend­ment of Le­gis­la­tion as a con­sequence of the Change in the Name of the Fed­er­al Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion as part of its fur­ther De­vel­op­ment, in force since 1 Jan. 2022 (AS 2020 2743).

29 Name in ac­cord­ance with No I 4 of the O of 12 June 2020 on the Amend­ment of Le­gis­la­tion as a con­sequence of the Change in the Name of the Fed­er­al Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion as part of its fur­ther De­vel­op­ment, in force since 1 Jan. 2022 (AS 2020 2743). This amend­ment has been made throughout the text.

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