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

of 25 June 1954 (Status as of 1 July 2023)

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. 1

1 Pat­ents for in­ven­tions are gran­ted for new in­ven­tions ap­plic­able in in­dustry.

2 Any­thing that is ob­vi­ous hav­ing re­gard to the state of the art (Art. 7 para. 2) is not pat­entable as an in­ven­tion.7

3 Pat­ents are gran­ted without the guar­an­tee of the State.8

7Amended by Art. 2 of the FD of 16 Dec. 2005 on the ap­prov­al of the Act re­vis­ing the European Pat­ent Con­ven­tion and on the amend­ment of the Pat­ents Act, in force since 13 Dec. 2007 (AS 2007 6479; BBl 2005 3773).

8Amended by No I of the FA of 17 Dec. 1976, in force since 1 Jan. 1978 (AS 1977 1997; BBl 1976 II 1).