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

¹ An ap­plic­a­tion for the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion or the amend­ment of the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion of an ap­pel­la­tion of ori­gin or geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tion whose geo­graph­ic­al area of ori­gin lies on Swiss ter­rit­ory may be filed with the IPI by:

a.

the group that has ob­tained the re­gis­tra­tion of the ap­pel­la­tion of ori­gin or the geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tion un­der Art­icle 16 or 63 Ag­ricA⁷⁰ nor un­der Art­icle 50b of this Act, 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 an ap­pel­la­tion d’ori­gine con­trôlée un­der Art­icle 63 Ag­ricA;

c.

the um­brella or­gan­isa­tion of an eco­nom­ic sec­tor for which the Fed­er­al Coun­cil has en­acted an or­din­ance based on Art­icle 50 para­graph 2;

d.

the pro­pri­et­or of a trade mark that con­sti­tutes an ap­pel­la­tion of ori­gin or geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tion as defined in Art­icle 2 of the Geneva Act⁷¹, provided the ap­pel­la­tion of ori­gin or geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tion is neither pro­tec­ted un­der Art­icle 16 or 63 Ag­ricA nor un­der Art­icle 50 para­graph 2 or 50b of this Act.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the de­tails of the pro­ced­ure.