Ordinance
on the Protection of Trade Marks and
Indications of Source1
(TmPO)

of 23 December 1992 (Status as of 1 January 2022)

1 Amended by No I of the O of 2 Sept. 2015, in force since 1 Jan. 2017 (AS 2015 3649).


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Art. 22 Exchange of written submissions

1 The IPI shall bring any op­pos­i­tion that is not mani­festly in­ad­miss­ible to the at­ten­tion of the de­fend­ant and shall set a time lim­it for re­sponse.

2 The de­fend­ant must sub­mit two cop­ies of the re­sponse.

3 In the de­fend­ant’s first re­sponse, the de­fend­ant must in­voke any non-use of the op­pos­ing party’s trade mark in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 12 para­graph 1 TmPA; however, this is only per­mit­ted if, at that time, an un­in­ter­rup­ted peri­od of five years has elapsed fol­low­ing the ex­piry of the op­pos­i­tion peri­od with no op­pos­i­tion hav­ing been filed, or upon con­clu­sion of the op­pos­i­tion pro­ceed­ings.48

4 The IPI may enter in­to fur­ther ex­changes of writ­ten sub­mis­sions.

48 Amended by No I of the O of 18 Aug. 2021, in force since 1 Dec. 2021 (AS 2021 510).

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