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. 35b Decision 32

1 The IPI shall re­ject the re­quest, if:

a.
the ap­plic­ant fails to show cred­ible non-use of the trade mark; or
b.
the pro­pri­et­or of the trade mark shows cred­ible use of the trade mark or prop­er reas­ons for its non-use.

2 Where cred­ible non-use is shown for only some of the goods or ser­vices claimed, the IPI shall ap­prove the re­quest only to the ex­tent there­of.

3 With the de­cision on the re­quest, the IPI shall de­term­ine wheth­er and to what ex­tent the costs of the suc­cess­ful party shall be re­im­bursed by the un­suc­cess­ful party.

32In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 21 June 2013, in force since 1 Jan. 2017 (AS 2015 3631; BBl 2009 8533).

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