brand2csv

brand2csv uses swissreg.ch to fetch Swiss trademark registrations and write them to CSV.

Two implementations

• Ruby gem (this directory) — original. Targets the legacy JSF UI at swissreg.ch/srclient/... which is no longer reachable; kept as historical reference.
• Rust port (rust/) — current. Targets the live SPA JSON API at swissreg.ch/database/resources/....

The Rust port is the one to use.

Rust usage

cd rust
cargo build --release
./target/release/brand2csv <timespan> [marke ...]

<timespan> is dd.mm.yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy-dd.mm.yyyy. Each marke is a Solr search string (e.g. parados, *parados*). Pass several to merge multiple searches into one deduped CSV.

./target/release/brand2csv 01.01.2013 'b*'
./target/release/brand2csv 1.10.2005-31.10.2005
./target/release/brand2csv 01.01.2000-04.05.2026 parados '*parados*'   # merged
./target/release/brand2csv 01.01.2017-29.03.2017 --swiss-only          # owners in CH only

Results land in csv/<timespan>.csv (or csv/<timespan>_combined.csv when merging multiple patterns). Columns are emitted in alphabetical order.

Flags

• --swiss-only — keep only owners with country CH.
• --no-details — skip the per-hit detail fetch; hinterlegungsdatum will be empty but the run is much faster. Auto-applied when a search returns more than 200 hits, since the swissreg WAF rate-limits bursts of detail fetches.

Ruby usage (legacy)

brand2csv 01.01.2013 "b*"
brand2csv 1.10.2005-31.10.2005

The Ruby implementation no longer functions against the live site.