Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ Con­tracts per­tain­ing to in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty are gov­erned by the law of the state in which the trans­fer­or or li­censor of the in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty right has their ha­bitu­al res­id­ence.

² A choice of law is al­lowed.

³ Con­tracts con­cluded between an em­ploy­er and an em­ploy­ee con­cern­ing rights to in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty cre­ated by the em­ploy­ee in the course of per­form­ing their work are gov­erned by the law ap­plic­able to the em­ploy­ment con­tract.