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
What exploitation rights do I have to my work?
As the copyright owner, you can determine if, when, and how your work may be used. More specifically, you have the following rights:
- Right to reproduce – the right to reproduce the work by any means (making copies of the work). Whether the work has been changed or not is irrelevant.
- Right to distribute – the right to offer, sell or put the work into circulation in any other way.
- Right to make available to the public – the right to make the work available through a communication network such as the internet so that the public can access it and the work can be downloaded, for example.
- Right to perform and present – the right to publicly recite, perform, present the work or to make it perceptible in any other way.
- Right to adapt – the right to decide if, when and how the work is to be adapted and whether it may be used as the basis for the creation of a new work (e.g. a translation).
News
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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18.05.2022 | Media release, IPI
Federal Council adopts strategic objectives for Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
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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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