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Rights of registered and unregistered marks

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What, if any, protection is afforded to unregistered trademarks?

Switzerland

Da Vinci Partners LLC

Answer ... Art. 14 LPM, right to continue to use a non-registered mark.

For more information about this answer please contact: John Moetteli from Da Vinci Partners LLC

6.2

What legal rights are conferred by a trademark registration?

Switzerland

Da Vinci Partners LLC

Answer ... The right to exclude others from using a confusingly similar trademark unless a defence of prior use is successfully asserted.

For more information about this answer please contact: John Moetteli from Da Vinci Partners LLC

6.3

If there is a separate register for descriptive marks, what legal rights are conferred by registration therein?

Switzerland

Da Vinci Partners LLC

Answer ... Not applicable as there is no supplemental register.

For more information about this answer please contact: John Moetteli from Da Vinci Partners LLC

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Trademarks

Brendan Hughes

Cooley LLP

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John Moetteli

Novella Moetteli-Mantelli

Da Vinci Partners LLC

Switzerland