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

¹ The ap­plic­a­tion for in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion of a trade mark or of an ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion must be sub­mit­ted to the IPI if Switzer­land is the coun­try of ori­gin as defined in Art­icle 1 para­graph 3 of the Mad­rid Agree­ment of 14 Ju­ly 1967⁹⁶ con­cern­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Re­gis­tra­tion of Marks (Mad­rid Agree­ment) or as defined in Art­icle 2 para­graph 1 of the Pro­tocol of 27 June 1989⁹⁷ re­lat­ing to the Mad­rid Agree­ment con­cern­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Re­gis­tra­tion of Marks (Mad­rid Pro­tocol).⁹⁸

² Either a form from the In­ter­na­tion­al Bur­eau of the World In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty Or­gan­iz­a­tion (WIPO) or a form ap­proved by the IPI must be used to file the ap­plic­a­tion.⁹⁹

^2bis If an ap­plic­a­tion that is oth­er­wise form­ally val­id con­tains all the in­form­a­tion re­quired, the IPI may waive the re­quire­ment to sub­mit the form.¹⁰⁰

³ The IPI shall de­term­ine the lan­guage in which the goods and ser­vices for which the trade mark or the ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion is claimed must be in­dic­ated.¹⁰¹

⁴ The na­tion­al fee (Art­icle 45 para­graph 2 TmPA) must be paid at the re­quest by the IPI.¹⁰²