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

¹On com­plaint of the in­jured party, any per­son who wil­fully in­fringes the trade mark right of an­oth­er is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing one year or a mon­et­ary pen­alty if he:

a.

ap­pro­pri­ates, coun­ter­feits or im­it­ates the trade mark of the oth­er per­son;

b.²

places goods on the mar­ket or provides ser­vices, or of­fers, im­ports, ex­ports, car­ries in trans­it or ad­vert­ises such goods or ser­vices un­der the ap­pro­pri­ated, coun­ter­feited or im­it­ated trade mark.

²On com­plaint of the in­jured party, any per­son who re­fuses to provide in­form­a­tion on the ori­gin or quant­ity of the items in his pos­ses­sion that un­law­fully bear the trade mark and to name the re­cip­i­ents and dis­close the ex­tent of dis­tri­bu­tion to com­mer­cial and in­dus­tri­al cus­tom­ers is also li­able to the same pen­al­ties.

³If the of­fend­er acts for com­mer­cial gain, he shall be pro­sec­uted ex of­fi­cio. The pen­alty is a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing five years or a mon­et­ary pen­alty. The cus­todi­al sen­tence shall be com­bined with a mon­et­ary pen­alty.