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

¹Re­gistered designs are sub­ject to the new Act from the date it enters in­to force. An ap­plic­a­tion for a fourth peri­od of pro­tec­tion must be sub­mit­ted to the IPI, to­geth­er with a rep­res­ent­a­tion of the design suit­able for re­pro­duc­tion.

² Designs already filed but not yet re­gistered at the time of entry in­to force of this Act shall be sub­ject to the pre­vi­ous law up to the time of their re­gis­tra­tion.

³Re­gistered designs that are sealed at the time of entry in­to force of this Act shall re­main sealed un­til the end of the first peri­od of pro­tec­tion.

⁴Art­icle 35 para­graph 4 ap­plies only to li­cence agree­ments that have been con­cluded or con­firmed after the entry in­to force of this Act.