What are the particularities of the new register and the new trademarks in the legislative amendment project “Swissness”?
The legislative amendment project “Swissness” envisions the creation of a national register for geographical indications for non-agricultural categories of goods. Today, the option of registering exists only for agricultural products and processed agricultural products (the corresponding indications of source and geographical indications can be registered with the Federal Office of Agriculture) and for wine (responsibility for this registration is with the cantons). In addition, the bill envisions that indications of source and geographical indications which have already been entered in a national register, the protected wine designations of the cantons or geographical indications regulated in a Federal Council ordinance may be registered as a guarantee or collective mark. These two official means of acknowledgement in the country of origin, in other words the registering in a register for indications of source and geographical indications or registering as a guarantee or collective tr
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