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

¹ If the ap­plic­ant or the rights hold­er fails to ob­serve a time lim­it re­quired by the IPI, he may file a re­quest with the lat­ter for fur­ther pro­cessing. Art­icle 24 para­graph 1 of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 Decem­ber 1968³⁸ on Ad­min­is­trat­ive Pro­ced­ure re­mains re­served.³⁹

² The re­quest must be filed with­in two months of the ap­plic­ant re­ceiv­ing no­tice of the ex­piry of the time lim­it, and at the latest with­in six months of ex­piry of the said time lim­it; with­in this time lim­it, the omit­ted act must be car­ried out in full and the fees as set out in the Or­din­ance paid.⁴⁰

³ If the re­quest is ap­proved, this will have the ef­fect of restor­ing the situ­ation that would have res­ul­ted from car­ry­ing out the act with­in the time lim­it.

⁴ Fur­ther pro­cessing is ruled out in the case of fail­ure to ob­serve:

a.

time lim­its for fil­ing a re­quest for fur­ther pro­cessing (para. 2);

b.

time lim­its for claim­ing pri­or­ity un­der Art­icles 7 and 8;

c.

the time lim­it for fil­ing op­pos­i­tion un­der Art­icle 31 para­graph 2;

d.⁴¹

the time lim­it for fil­ing an ap­plic­a­tion for re­new­al un­der Art­icle 10 para­graph 3;

e.⁴²

the time lim­its in can­cel­la­tion pro­ceed­ings un­der Art­icles 35a–35c.