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

¹ A trade mark is a sign cap­able of dis­tin­guish­ing the goods or ser­vices of one un­der­tak­ing from those of oth­er un­der­tak­ings.

² Trade marks may, in par­tic­u­lar, be words, let­ters, nu­mer­als, fig­ur­at­ive rep­res­ent­a­tions, three-di­men­sion­al shapes or com­bin­a­tions of such ele­ments with each oth­er or with col­ours.