Federal Act
on Unfair Competition
(Unfair Competition Act, UCA)

A per­son acts un­fairly in par­tic­u­lar if they:

a.

ex­ploit a work product en­trus­ted to them, such as an of­fer, cal­cu­la­tion or plan, without au­thor­isa­tion;

b.

ex­ploit a third party’s work product, such as an of­fer, cal­cu­la­tion or plan, even though they must know that it was giv­en or made ac­cess­ible to them without au­thor­isa­tion;

c.

take over and ex­ploit an­oth­er per­son's work product that is ready for the mar­ket by means of tech­nic­al re­pro­duc­tion pro­cesses without any reas­on­able ef­fort of their own.