Federal Act
on the Protection of Trade Marks and Indications of Source
(Trade Mark Protection Act, TmPA)

¹ An in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion may be con­ver­ted in­to a na­tion­al ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion if:

a.

the ap­plic­a­tion is sub­mit­ted to the IPI with­in three months of can­cel­ling the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion;

b.

the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion and the na­tion­al ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion con­cern the same trade mark;

c.

the goods and ser­vices in­dic­ated in the ap­plic­a­tion were also the ac­tu­al goods and ser­vices covered by the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion hav­ing ef­fect in Switzer­land;

d.

the na­tion­al ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion ful­fils the oth­er re­quire­ments laid down in this Act.

² Ob­jec­tions raised against the re­gis­tra­tion of trade marks filed in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 are in­ad­miss­ible.