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

¹ For the fil­ing of a trade mark in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 78 para­graph 1 TmPA, the date on which use of the trade mark com­menced shall be entered in the Trade Mark Re­gister and pub­lished.

² If it con­cerns an in­ter­na­tion­ally re­gistered trade mark, the rel­ev­ant in­form­a­tion must be provided to the IPI by the end of the month of pub­lic­a­tion of the in­ter­na­tion­al re­gis­tra­tion; the date on which the use of the trade mark com­menced shall be entered in a spe­cial re­gister and pub­lished.