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. 128233

The court may sus­pend pro­ceed­ings, and in par­tic­u­lar de­fer judg­ment where:

a.
the European Pat­ent Of­fice has not yet taken a fi­nal de­cision on a lim­it­a­tion or re­voc­a­tion of the European pat­ent;
b.
the valid­ity of the European pat­ent is dis­puted and one party provides evid­ence that op­pos­i­tion may still be filed with the European Pat­ent Of­fice or that a fi­nal de­cision has not yet been taken with re­gard to an op­pos­i­tion;
c.
the European Pat­ent Of­fice has not yet taken a fi­nal de­cision re­gard­ing a pe­ti­tion for re­view of the de­cision un­der Art­icle 112a of the European Pat­ent Con­ven­tion.

233In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 17 Dec. 1976 (AS 1977 1997; BBl 1976 II 1). Amended by Art. 2 of the FD of 16 Dec. 2005 on the ap­prov­al of the Act to Re­vise the European Pat­ent Con­ven­tion and on the Amend­ment of the Pat­ents Act, in force since 13 Dec. 2007 (AS 2007 6479; BBl 2005 3773).

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