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

¹ Trade marks that have already been filed or re­gistered upon entry in­to force of this Act are sub­ject to the new law from that date.

² By way of derog­a­tion from para­graph 1, the fol­low­ing pro­vi­sions ap­ply:

a.

pri­or­ity is gov­erned by the pre­vi­ous law.

b.

grounds for re­fus­ing ap­plic­a­tions for re­gis­tra­tion, with the ex­cep­tion of ab­so­lute grounds for re­fus­al, are gov­erned by the pre­vi­ous law.

c.

op­pos­i­tions to the re­gis­tra­tion of trade marks already filed on entry in­to force of this Act are not ad­miss­ible;

d.

the valid­ity of a re­gis­tra­tion ter­min­ates on ex­piry of the time lim­it ap­plic­able un­der the pre­vi­ous law; up to such time, it may be re­newed at any time.

e.

the first re­new­al of the re­gis­tra­tion of a col­lect­ive mark is sub­ject to the same form­al re­quire­ments as those for fil­ing.