Am 21.06.2011 08:39, schrieb Raphael Studer:
... See: https://www.ige.ch/d/marke/documents/m12109d.pdf I havn't read the pdf, but I've a question. If you register a trademark, you can prohibit someone else to name your product with the name your trademarked? E.g. Mercedes can prohibit you to call their cars "Mercedes"?
Probably not in the case that it is a simple reference to a product produced by Daimler.
So selling a "Mercedes S320" on a 2nd hand car portal is surely OK (as long as it is an original Mercedes S320), operating a 2nd hand car portal "The Mercedes 2nd hand car portal" wouldn't be (without permission from Daimler).
In the case of the GR-routes, referring to them in an article or a book, along the lines of "I was walking along the GR route xxx..." (probably would really require a trademark sign) is clearly OK. Producing an OSM map with the route marked as GR xxx is probably not. In the end, like most of these things, it would have to be decided in court.
In the case of SchweizMobil since they haven't trademarked anything (as far as a quick search can tell) it would be a lot fuzzier, BUT you could still run afoul of unfair competition regulations (in Germany in any case, but probably in Switzerland too) and in the case of the logos, normal copyright protection.
Simon