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. 4 Several applicants or proprietors of a trade mark 10

1 Where sev­er­al per­sons ap­ply to re­gister a trade mark or hold the right to a trade mark, they must either des­ig­nate one of them to whom the IPI may send all com­mu­nic­a­tions with ef­fect for all of them, or they must ap­point a joint rep­res­ent­at­ive.

2 If neither of these con­di­tions have been met, the IPI shall des­ig­nate a re­cip­i­ent in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1. If one of the oth­er per­sons ob­jects, the IPI shall re­quest that all parties act in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1.

3 Para­graphs 1 and 2 also ap­ply to ap­plic­a­tions for in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 50d und 50e TmPA.11

10 Amended by No I of the O of 2 Dec. 2016, in force since 1 Jan. 2017 (AS 2016 4829).

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

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