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

¹ The fol­low­ing are also au­thor­ised to bring ac­tions for a de­clar­at­ory judg­ment (Art. 52) and ac­tions for per­form­ance (Art. 55 para. 1) con­cern­ing the pro­tec­tion of in­dic­a­tions of source:

a.

pro­fes­sion­al and trade as­so­ci­ations au­thor­ised by their stat­utes to safe­guard the eco­nom­ic in­terests of their mem­bers;

b.

or­gan­isa­tions of na­tion­al or re­gion­al im­port­ance ded­ic­ated by their stat­utes to the pro­tec­tion of con­sumers;

c.

the IPI, to the ex­tent that des­ig­na­tions such as «Switzer­land», «Swiss» or oth­er des­ig­na­tions or sym­bols that in­dic­ate the geo­graph­ic­al ter­rit­ory of the Swiss Con­fed­er­a­tion with­in the mean­ing of Art­icle 48 para­graph 4 are used;

d.

the can­ton con­cerned, to the ex­tent that its name or oth­er des­ig­na­tions or sym­bols re­fer­ring to its geo­graph­ic­al ter­rit­ory are used.

² As­so­ci­ations and or­gan­isa­tions un­der para­graph 1 let­ters a and b are en­titled to bring ac­tions un­der Art­icle 52 with re­spect to a guar­an­tee mark (Art. 21 para. 1) or col­lect­ive mark (Art. 22).

³ The can­tons shall des­ig­nate the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity for ac­tions un­der para­graph 1 let­ter d.