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

of 28 August 1992 (Status as of 1 January 2022)


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Art. 70 Notification of suspicious consignments 98

1 The Fed­er­al Of­fice for Cus­toms and Bor­der Se­cur­ity (FO­CBS) is au­thor­ised to no­ti­fy the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark, the per­son en­titled to use an in­dic­a­tion of source or a party en­titled to in­sti­tute pro­ceed­ings un­der Art­icle 56 if there is any sus­pi­cion of the im­min­ent trans­port of goods that un­law­fully bear a trade mark or an in­dic­a­tion of source in­to or out of the cus­toms ter­rit­ory of Switzer­land.99

2 In such cases, the FO­CBS100 is au­thor­ised to with­hold the goods for three work­ing days, in or­der that the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark, the per­son en­titled to use the in­dic­a­tion of source or a pro­fes­sion­al or trade as­so­ci­ation en­titled to in­sti­tute pro­ceed­ings un­der Art­icle 56 may file an ap­plic­a­tion un­der Art­icle 71.

98 Amended by An­nex No 3 of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2008 (AS 2008 2551; BBl 2006 1).

99 Amended by No I 3 of the O of 12 June 2020 on the Amend­ment of Le­gis­la­tion as a con­sequence of the Change to the Name of the Fed­er­al Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion as part of its fur­ther De­vel­op­ment, in force since 1 Jan. 2022 (AS 2020 2743).

100 Name in ac­cord­ance with No I 3 of the O of 12 June 2020 on the Amend­ment of Le­gis­la­tion as a con­sequence of the Change to the Name of the Fed­er­al Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion as part of its fur­ther De­vel­op­ment, in force since 1 Jan. 2022 (AS 2020 2743). This change has been made throughout the text.

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