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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]

Art. 40 Electronic administrative communication 37

1 The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may au­thor­ise the IPI to reg­u­late elec­tron­ic com­mu­nic­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with the gen­er­al pro­vi­sions on the ad­min­is­tra­tion of fed­er­al justice.

2 The dossier and the files may be main­tained and stored in elec­tron­ic form.

3 The Trade Mark Re­gister may be main­tained in elec­tron­ic form.

4 The IPI may make its data­base ac­cess­ible, par­tic­u­larly on­line, to third parties; it may de­mand re­mu­ner­a­tion for this ser­vice.

5 The IPI’s pub­lic­a­tions may be pro­duced in elec­tron­ic form; the elec­tron­ic ver­sion, however, is only au­thor­it­at­ive if the data is ex­clus­ively pub­lished in elec­tron­ic form.

37Amended by An­nex No 4 of the FA of 19 Dec. 2003 on Elec­tron­ic Sig­na­tures, in force since 1 Jan. 2005 (AS 2004 5085, BBl 2001 5679).