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

The re­gis­tra­tion of a geo­graph­ic­al mark may be re­ques­ted by:

a.

the group that has ob­tained the re­gis­tra­tion of the ap­pel­la­tion of ori­gin or the geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tion, or where such group no longer ex­ists, the rep­res­ent­at­ive group deal­ing with the pro­tec­tion of this ap­pel­la­tion of ori­gin or geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tion;

b.

the Swiss can­ton that pro­tects the ap­pel­la­tion d’ori­gine con­trôlée or the for­eign au­thor­ity re­spons­ible for the reg­u­la­tion of wine de­nom­in­a­tions cor­res­pond­ing to Art­icle 63 Ag­ricA²³, as well as the group that ob­tained the pro­tec­tion of such a for­eign wine de­nom­in­a­tion;

c.

the um­brella or­gan­isa­tion of an eco­nom­ic sec­tor for which the Fed­er­al Coun­cil has en­acted an or­din­ance based on Art­icle 50 para­graph 2 or which acts on the basis of on an equi­val­ent for­eign reg­u­la­tion.