For IP professionals
This is the portal for professionals working in the field of intellectual property. Here you'll find direct access to all necessary resources.
Quick links
- Trade Mark Database
- Register changes for trade marks
- Swissreg
- Madrid Monitor
- TMview
- E-trademark
- International trade mark registration
- Trade Mark Guidelines (German, French, Italian)
- Classification tool for trade marks
- Trade mark examination support tool
- Trade marks: Costs and fees
- Trade marks: WIPO fee calculator
- Cancellation procedure for trade marks on the grounds of non-use
- Protected public signs: Abbreviations
- Protected public signs: Other signs (emblems)
- Directory of Intellectual Property Offices
- Trade marks: News Service Archive
- Patents: Patent Examination Guidelines (German, French)
- Patents: Fees
How do I formulate an IP strategy?
By answering the following three questions, you can get a better idea of what the best strategy is for protecting your intellectual property.
- What do you want to protect? Ideas, innovations, logos or something else?
Remember: once an invention has been disclosed, it can no longer be protected. - How do you want to protect your intellectual property?
Depending on what you want to protect, you can apply to register it as a trade mark, patent, design or geographical indication of source with the IPI.
Artistic works such as texts and songs are automatically protected under copyright.
If you want to protect an invention, simply keeping it a secret is a cheap and efficient way to do so (like Coca Cola does), but it’s also risky. - Where do you want to protect your innovations and creations?
Patents, trade marks and other such rights are only valid in the countries in which they are registered. So think carefully about all the places where you want to register your intellectual property. Consider where your current and potential research, production and sales markets are or might be.
Important
Protection without enforcement is a paper tiger. Having a concept for enforcing your rights is also a necessary part of an IP strategy.
Rule of thumb
News
01.07.2022 | Trade Marks, ip-search, IPI
From July 2022, the IPI will no longer offer trade mark searches
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15.06.2022 | Trade Marks, Partners and initiatives
The IPI’s IP Management Award goes to Pettastic!
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24.05.2022 | Patents, Trade Marks
A strategy for success – how a Swiss start-up protects its inventions
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Events
14.04.2022 | Patents, Event, IPI
EPO/IPI - invitation to a free public online seminar on patenting topics in green tech
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01.10.2021 | Event, Partners and initiatives, IPI
How SMEs protect their primary raw material – know-how
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