Federal Act
on the Protection of the Swiss Coat of Arms and Other Public Signs
(Coat of Arms Protection Act, CAPA)

¹ Any per­son who suf­fers in­fringe­ment of or threat to their eco­nom­ic in­terests due to the un­law­ful use of a pub­lic sign may re­quest the court to:

a.

pro­hib­it an im­min­ent in­fringe­ment;

b.

rem­edy an ex­ist­ing in­fringe­ment;

c.

re­quire the de­fend­ing party to provide in­form­a­tion on the ori­gin and quant­ity of items in its pos­ses­sion that un­law­fully bear the pub­lic sign and to name the re­cip­i­ents and dis­close the ex­tent of any dis­tri­bu­tion to com­mer­cial cus­tom­ers;

d.

es­tab­lish the un­law­ful nature of an in­fringe­ment if it con­tin­ues to have an of­fens­ive ef­fect.

² Ac­tions brought un­der the Code of Ob­lig­a­tions⁹ for dam­ages, sat­is­fac­tion and hand­ing over of profits in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions con­cern­ing agency without au­thor­ity re­main re­served.