Ordinance
on the Protection of Designs
(Designs Ordinance, DesO)

¹ The entry of a design in the Re­gister shall in­clude:

a.

the fil­ing num­ber;

b.

the fil­ing date;

c.

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

d.

the sur­name and ad­dress of the rep­res­ent­at­ive, where ap­plic­able;

e.³⁵

the sur­name and dom­i­cile of the per­sons who cre­ated the design;

f.

in­form­a­tion about the products for which the designs are to be used;

g.

a ref­er­ence num­ber for each filed design;

h.

the re­pro­duc­tions of the designs;

i.

the date of re­gis­tra­tion;

j

the date of pub­lic­a­tion.

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

a.

in­form­a­tion con­cern­ing the pri­or­ity claim in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 22 and 23 De­sA;

b.

an in­dic­a­tion that the pub­lic­a­tion has been de­ferred;

c.

a de­scrip­tion of the design.

³ The fol­low­ing shall also be entered in the Re­gister:

a.

the re­new­al of the term of pro­tec­tion and the date on which the re­new­al comes in­to ef­fect;

b.

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

c.

the com­plete or par­tial trans­fer of the design right;

d.³⁶

the grant of a li­cence or sub-li­cence with the sur­name and first name or com­pany name as well as the ad­dress of the per­son to whom the li­cense is gran­ted (li­censee), and an in­dic­a­tion as to wheth­er it con­cerns an ex­clus­ive li­cence or a par­tial li­cence;

e.

the usu­fruct of the design right and pledging of the design right;

f.

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

g.

amend­ments con­cern­ing re­gistered in­form­a­tion.

⁴ The IPI may enter oth­er in­form­a­tion of pub­lic in­terest.

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