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

¹ The IPI shall main­tain a dossier for each ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion and each trade mark re­gis­tra­tion, con­tain­ing the fol­low­ing:

a.

the stages of the re­gis­tra­tion pro­ced­ure, any op­pos­i­tion pro­ceed­ings and any can­cel­la­tion pro­ced­ures on the grounds of non-use;

b.

the re­new­al and can­cel­la­tion of the re­gis­tra­tion, any in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion as well as any amend­ments to trade mark law;

c.

oth­er amend­ments to the trade mark re­gis­tra­tion.⁶⁹

² The reg­u­la­tions for a guar­an­tee or col­lect­ive mark or the reg­u­la­tions for a geo­graph­ic­al mark must also be in­cluded in the dossier.⁷⁰

³ Of­fi­cial doc­u­ments of evid­ence that dis­close man­u­fac­tur­ing or trade secrets shall be filed sep­ar­ately on re­quest. This will be noted in the dossier.⁷¹

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