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

¹ The ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion shall in­clude:

a.

the ap­plic­a­tion to re­gister the design;

b.

the sur­name and first name or the com­pany name and the ad­dress of the ap­plic­ant;

c.

the num­ber of designs in­cluded in the fil­ing;

d.

a ref­er­ence num­ber for each filed design;

e.

at least one rep­res­ent­a­tion of each filed design;

f.

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

g.¹³

the sur­name, first name and dom­i­cile of the per­sons who cre­ated the design.

² The ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion must be sup­ple­men­ted, where ap­plic­able, with the fol­low­ing:

a.¹⁴

the ad­dress for ser­vice of the ap­plic­ant in Switzer­land;

a^bis.¹⁵

in the case of two or more ap­plic­ants, the des­ig­na­tion of the re­cip­i­ent in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 4 para­graph 1 and their ad­dress for ser­vice where ap­plic­able;

a^ter.¹⁶

the name and ad­dress of the rep­res­ent­at­ive, where ap­plic­able, and their ad­dress for ser­vice in Switzer­land;

b.

the de­clar­a­tion of pri­or­ity in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 23 of the De­sA;

c.

the ap­plic­a­tion for de­fer­ment of pub­lic­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 26 para­graph 1 of the De­sA;

d.

a de­scrip­tion of the design in up to 100 words in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 19 para­graph 4 of the De­sA; the text must be ma­chine-read­able.

³ If a de­fer­ment of pub­lic­a­tion is re­ques­ted for a two-di­men­sion­al design in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 26 of the De­sA, a spe­ci­men of the design may be sub­mit­ted in lieu of a rep­res­ent­a­tion (Art. 19 para. 3 De­sA).

⁴ The rep­res­ent­a­tions shall be re­leased for pub­lic­a­tion five work­ing days after re­ceipt of the ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion provided that the IPI has not re­ceived an ap­plic­a­tion for de­fer­ment of pub­lic­a­tion by that date.