Article 1511 State registration of collective signage

1. An application for registration of a collective mark (the application for a collective sign) submitted to the federal intellectual property authority shall be accompanied by a collective knowledge charter. which must contain: (1) the name of the association authorized to register the collective sign in its name (right holder); (2) the list of persons entitled to use it (3) the purpose of the collective sign; (4) the list and common quality or other general characteristics of the goods to be marked by the collective sign; (5) the conditions for the use of the collective sign; (6) the provisions on the control of the use of the collective sign; (7) the provisions on liability for violation of the charter of the collective sign. In addition to the information provided for in articles 1503 and 1504 of the present Code, information is provided on the persons entitled to exercise the right to sign and mark. This information as well as an extract from the charter of the collective sign on uniform characteristics of quality and other general characteristics of the goods for which the sign is issued The right holder informs the federal executive body, by interest, of the intellectual property authority in the official bulletin. 3. In the case of the use of a collective mark on goods which do not have uniform characteristics of their quality or other common ha 4. The collective sign may be terminated early, in whole or in part, on the basis of a court decision on the application of any interested person. The name mark and the collective sign application may be converted into a trademark and an application for a trademark, respectively, and vice versa. The executive branch responsible for the regulation of intellectual property.