Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ With the ex­cep­tion of copy­right, all rights con­cern­ing in­tan­gible goods pro­duced by per­sons em­ployed by the FO­AG or by the re­search in­sti­tutes un­der the terms of the Fed­er­al Per­son­nel Act of 24 March 2000²²², as part of their of­fi­cial tasks, be­long to the Con­fed­er­a­tion.

² In the case of com­puter pro­grammes writ­ten by the per­sons men­tioned in para­graph 1 as part of their of­fi­cial tasks, the FO­AG or the re­search in­sti­tutes en­joy ex­clus­ive rights of use. In or­der to trans­fer rights in oth­er copy­right work cat­egor­ies, the FO­AG and the re­search in­sti­tutes may draw up con­trac­tu­al reg­u­la­tions with those who own the rights.

³ Any per­son who has pro­duced in­tan­gible goods un­der the terms of para­graphs 1 and 2 must re­ceive an ap­pro­pri­ate share of any profit ac­cru­ing from their com­mer­cial­isa­tion.