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

¹ Pri­or to the entry of the design in the Re­gister and dur­ing the peri­od of de­fer­ment of pub­lic­a­tion, the dossier may be in­spec­ted by:

a.

the ap­plic­ant and his or her rep­res­ent­at­ive;

b.

per­sons who prove that the ap­plic­ant al­leges that they have in­fringed the ap­plic­ant’s right to the filed design or has warned them of such an in­fringe­ment;

c.

oth­er per­sons with the ex­press con­sent of the ap­plic­ant or his or her rep­res­ent­at­ive.

² The per­sons named in para­graph 1 may also in­spect the files re­lat­ing to ap­plic­a­tions for re­gis­tra­tion that have been with­drawn or re­jec­ted, or which the IPI has dis­missed.

³ Any­one may in­spect the dossier after the design has been entered in the Re­gister, provided that the pub­lic­a­tion has not been de­ferred.

⁴ The IPI shall make a de­cision re­gard­ing the in­spec­tion of sep­ar­ately filed of­fi­cial doc­u­ments of evid­ence in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22 para­graph 2 fol­low­ing con­sulta­tion with the right hold­er.

⁵ On re­quest, the files to be in­spec­ted shall be is­sued in the form of cop­ies.³³