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

¹When mak­ing an ap­plic­a­tion un­der Art­icle 71 para­graph 1, the ap­plic­ant may sub­mit a writ­ten re­quest to the Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion to des­troy the goods.

²If an ap­plic­a­tion for de­struc­tion is made, the Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion shall no­ti­fy the de­clar­ant, hold­er or own­er of the goods ac­cord­ingly as part of the no­ti­fic­a­tion made un­der Art­icle 72 para­graph 1.

³The ap­plic­a­tion for de­struc­tion does not res­ult in the time lim­its for ob­tain­ing pre­lim­in­ary meas­ures un­der Art­icle 72 para­graphs 2 and 3 be­ing ex­ten­ded.