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

¹ The fol­low­ing ap­plies for in­ter­na­tion­ally re­gistered trade marks:

a.

the re­fus­al of pro­tec­tion shall re­place the re­fus­al of an ap­plic­a­tion for re­gis­tra­tion un­der Art­icle 30 para­graph 2 let­ters a and c–e TmPA and the re­voc­a­tion of the re­gis­tra­tion un­der Art­icle 33 TmPA;

b.

the in­val­id­a­tion shall re­place the can­cel­la­tion of the re­gis­tra­tion un­der Art­icle 35 let­ters c–e TmPA.

² The IPI shall not pub­lish the re­fus­al of pro­tec­tion nor the in­val­id­a­tion.