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

¹ Ap­plic­a­tions in­vok­ing a ground un­der Art­icle 50epara­graph 1 TmPA and ap­plic­a­tions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 50e para­graph 4 TmPA may be sub­mit­ted:

a.

by any party in ac­cord­ance with the APA¹¹⁴;

b.

by a can­ton if it con­cerns a for­eign de­nom­in­a­tion that is the same as or sim­il­ar to that of a can­ton­al geo­graph­ic­al unit or a tra­di­tion­al de­nom­in­a­tion used in Switzer­land.

² Ap­plic­a­tions must be sub­mit­ted in writ­ing to the IPI with­in three months of the pub­lic­a­tion of the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion by the In­ter­na­tion­al Bur­eau. The time lim­it shall be­gin on the first day of the month fol­low­ing the pub­lic­a­tion in the or­gan of pub­lic­a­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Bur­eau of WIPO.

³ Art­icles 20–24 ap­ply by ana­logy.

⁴ The IPI may in­vite the af­fected fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies to com­ment.