Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ The can­ton­al law des­ig­nates the court that has jur­is­dic­tion as sole can­ton­al in­stance for:

a.

dis­putes in con­nec­tion with in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty rights, in­clud­ing dis­putes con­cern­ing the nullity, own­er­ship, li­cens­ing, trans­fer and vi­ol­a­tion of such rights;

b.

car­tel law dis­putes;

c.

dis­putes on the use of a busi­ness name;

d.

dis­putes un­der the Un­fair Com­pet­i­tion Act of 19 Decem­ber 1986⁴ if the amount in dis­pute ex­ceeds 30,000 francs or if the Con­fed­er­a­tion ex­er­cises its right to file an ac­tion;

e.⁵

dis­putes un­der the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Pub­lic Li­ab­il­ity Act of 13 June 2008⁶;

f.

claims against the Con­fed­er­a­tion;

g.⁷

dis­putes re­lat­ing to the in­stig­a­tion and con­duct of a spe­cial in­vest­ig­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 697c–697h^bis of the Code of Ob­lig­a­tions (CO)⁸;

h.⁹

dis­putes un­der the Col­lect­ive In­vest­ment Schemes Act of 23 June 2006¹⁰, the Fin­an­cial Mar­ket In­fra­struc­ture Act of 19 June 2015¹¹ and the Fin­an­cial In­sti­tu­tions Act of 15 June 2018¹²;

i.¹³

dis­putes un­der the Coat of Arms Pro­tec­tion Act of 21 June 2013¹⁴, the Fed­er­al Act of 25 March 1954¹⁵ on the Pro­tec­tion of the Em­blem and Name of the Red Cross and the Fed­er­al Act of 15 Decem­ber 1961¹⁶ on the Pro­tec­tion of the Names and Em­blems of the United Na­tions Or­gan­iz­a­tion and oth­er In­ter­gov­ern­ment­al Or­gan­isa­tions.

² This court is also com­pet­ent to or­der in­ter­im meas­ures be­fore an ac­tion is pending.