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 July 2023) [3]


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Art. 27a Subject matter

By way of derog­a­tion from Art­icle 2 let­ter a, a geo­graph­ic­al mark may be re­gistered for:

a.21
an ap­pel­la­tion of ori­gin or a geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tion re­gistered un­der Art­icle 16 of the Ag­ri­cul­ture Act of 29 April 199822(Ag­ricA), or a geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tion re­gistered un­der Art­icle 50b of this Act;
b.
an ap­pel­la­tion d’ori­gine con­trôlée pro­tec­ted un­der Art­icle 63 Ag­ricA or a for­eign wine de­nom­in­a­tion which meets the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 63 Ag­ricA;
c.
an in­dic­a­tion of source that is the sub­ject mat­ter of a Fed­er­al Coun­cil or­din­ance un­der Art­icle 50 para­graph 2, or a for­eign in­dic­a­tion of source that is based on an equi­val­ent for­eign reg­u­la­tion.

21 Amended by An­nex of FD of 19 March 2021 on the Ap­prov­al of the Geneva Act of the Lis­bon Agree­ment for the Pro­tec­tion of Ap­pel­la­tions of Ori­gin and Geo­graph­ic­al In­dic­a­tions and on its im­ple­ment­a­tion, in force since 1 Dec. 2021 (AS 2021 742; BBl 2020 5827).

22 SR 910.1

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