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
Everything legal?
Determine whether you need to follow legal restrictions. Certain products (e.g., medicines, chemicals, and agricultural fertilizers and pesticides) must be approved by a federal agency (such as swissmedic or the Federal Office of Public Health) in order to protect public health, the environment or other important resources before they can be produced or marketed. Patent owners also require approval in order to bring certain products onto the market. This is because a patent does not automatically confer on its owner the right to use an invention. The patent law does not govern whether and under which conditions an invention may be used. For that there is other applicable legislation, such as a federal drug act or gene technology act.
Further information
- Overview of the approval procedure, cantonal procedure, and regulated professions (website of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO).
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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