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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).

Art. 73

1 Any per­son who per­forms an act re­ferred to in Art­icle 66 either wil­fully or through neg­li­gence shall be re­quired to pay dam­ages to the in­jured party ac­cord­ing to the pro­vi­sions of the Code of Ob­lig­a­tions171.

2 …172

3 An ac­tion for dam­ages may only be brought after the pat­ent has been gran­ted; the de­fend­ant may, however, be held li­able for loss or dam­age caused from the time when he first ob­tained know­ledge of the con­tent of the pat­ent ap­plic­a­tion, but at the latest from the pub­lic­a­tion of the ap­plic­a­tion.173

4 …174

171SR220

172 Re­pealed by An­nex 1 No II 12 of the Civil Pro­ced­ure Code of 19 Dec. 2008, with ef­fect from 1 Jan. 2011 (AS 2010 1739; BBl 2006 7221).

173 Amended by No I of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2008 (AS 2008 2551; BBl 2006 1).

174In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 17 Dec. 1976 (AS 1977 1997; BBl 1976 II 1). Re­pealed by No I of the FA of 22 June 2007, with ef­fect from 1 Ju­ly 2008 (AS 2008 2551; BBl 2006 1).