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

¹ A trade mark right con­fers on the pro­pri­et­or the ex­clus­ive right to use the trade mark to identi­fy the goods or ser­vices for which it is claimed and to dis­pose of it.

² The pro­pri­et­or of a trade mark may pro­hib­it oth­ers from us­ing a sign that is ex­cluded from trade mark pro­tec­tion un­der Art­icle 3 para­graph 1, in par­tic­u­lar, from:

a.

af­fix­ing the sign to goods or their pack­aging;

b.

of­fer­ing goods, pla­cing them on the mar­ket or stor­ing them for such pur­poses un­der the sign;

c.

of­fer­ing or provid­ing ser­vices un­der the sign;

d.

im­port­ing, ex­port­ing or car­ry­ing in trans­it goods un­der the sign;¹³

e.

us­ing the sign on busi­ness pa­pers, in ad­vert­ising, or oth­er­wise in the course of trade.

^2bis The pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark may also as­sert the rights un­der para­graph 2 let­ter d if the im­port, ex­port or trans­it of com­mer­cially man­u­fac­tured goods is car­ried out for private pur­poses.¹⁴

³ The pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark may also as­sert the rights un­der this Art­icle against au­thor­ised users in terms of Art­icle 4.¹⁵