Federal Act
on Patents for Inventions
(Patents Act, PatA)1

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 25 June 1954 (Status as of 1 April 2019)

1Amended by No I of the FA of 3 Feb. 1995, in force since 1 Sept. 1995 (AS 1995 2879; BBl 1993 III 706).


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Art. 71

Any per­son who brings an ac­tion un­der Art­icles 72, 73, 74 or 81 and sub­sequently brings a fur­ther ac­tion against the same party for the same or a sim­il­ar act on the basis of an­oth­er pat­ent must bear the court costs and the oth­er party's costs for the new pro­ced­ure if he does not provide prima facie evid­ence that in the pri­or ac­tion he was, through no fault on his part, un­able to in­voke the oth­er pat­ent.

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