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

¹ Any per­son whose right to a trade mark or an in­dic­a­tion of source is in­fringed or threatened may re­quest the court:

a.

to pro­hib­it an im­min­ent in­fringe­ment;

b.

to rem­edy an ex­ist­ing in­fringe­ment;

c.⁷⁷

to re­quire the de­fend­ant to provide in­form­a­tion on the ori­gin and quant­ity of items in his pos­ses­sion that un­law­fully bear the trade mark or the in­dic­a­tion of source and to name the re­cip­i­ents and dis­close the ex­tent of any dis­tri­bu­tion to com­mer­cial and in­dus­tri­al cus­tom­ers.

² Ac­tions brought un­der the Code of Ob­lig­a­tions⁷⁸ for dam­ages, sat­is­fac­tion and hand­ing over of profits in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions con­cern­ing agency without au­thor­ity re­main re­served.

^2bis An ac­tion for per­form­ance may be in­sti­tuted only after the entry of the trade mark in the Re­gister. Claims for dam­ages may be made ret­ro­act­ively from the time at which the de­fend­ant ob­tained know­ledge of the con­tent of the ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion.⁷⁹

³ The use of a guar­an­tee or col­lect­ive mark con­trary to the ap­plic­able reg­u­la­tions also con­sti­tutes an in­fringe­ment of a trade mark right.

⁴ Any per­son who holds an ex­clus­ive li­cence is en­titled to bring a sep­ar­ate ac­tion ir­re­spect­ive of the re­gis­tra­tion of the li­cence in the Re­gister un­less this is ex­pressly ex­cluded in the li­cence agree­ment. Any li­censees may join an in­fringe­ment ac­tion in or­der to claim for their own dam­ages.⁸⁰