Federal Act on the Protection of Trade Marks and Indications of Source

¹The ap­plic­ant of a guar­an­tee or col­lect­ive mark must file reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing the use of the mark with the IPI¹.

²The reg­u­la­tions for guar­an­tee marks shall des­ig­nate the com­mon char­ac­ter­ist­ics of the goods or ser­vices which the mark is in­ten­ded to guar­an­tee; they shall also provide for an ef­fect­ive con­trol of the use of the mark and for ap­pro­pri­ate sanc­tions.

³The reg­u­la­tions for col­lect­ive marks shall des­ig­nate those un­der­tak­ings that are en­titled to use the mark.

⁴The reg­u­la­tions may not be con­trary to pub­lic policy, mor­al­ity or ap­plic­able law.