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

¹The in­dic­a­tion of source of a ser­vice is con­sidered to be cor­rect if:

a.

it cor­res­ponds to the re­gistered of­fice of the per­son provid­ing the ser­vice; and

b.

a place of ef­fect­ive ad­min­is­tra­tion of this per­son is loc­ated in the same coun­try.

²Where a par­ent com­pany ful­fils the re­quire­ments of para­graph 1 let­ter a, and either it or one of its sub­si­di­ar­ies ef­fect­ively con­trolled by it and dom­i­ciled in the same coun­try ful­fils the re­quire­ments of para­graph 1 let­ter b, then the in­dic­a­tion of source is also con­sidered to be cor­rect for sim­il­ar ser­vices provided by the for­eign sub­si­di­ar­ies and the branch of­fices of the par­ent com­pany.

³Any ad­di­tion­al re­quire­ments such as com­pli­ance with pre­scribed or cus­tom­ary prin­ciples of provid­ing the ser­vice or the tra­di­tion­al as­so­ci­ation of the per­son provid­ing the ser­vice with the coun­try of ori­gin must also be ful­filled.

⁴A for­eign in­dic­a­tion of source is con­sidered to be cor­rect where it meets the stat­utory re­quire­ments of the coun­try con­cerned. Any pos­sible mis­lead­ing of con­sumers in Switzer­land re­mains re­served.