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

¹ The In­sti­tute shall on ap­plic­a­tion grant a sup­ple­ment­ary pro­tec­tion cer­ti­fic­ate (cer­ti­fic­ate) for the act­ive in­gredi­ents or com­bin­a­tion of act­ive in­gredi­ents of medi­cin­al products. A cer­ti­fic­ate will only be is­sued if no pae­di­at­ric sup­ple­ment­ary pro­tec­tion cer­ti­fic­ate in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 140tpara­graph 1 is avail­able.²⁵⁷

^1bis An act­ive in­gredi­ent is a sub­stance of chem­ic­al or bio­lo­gic­al ori­gin con­trib­ut­ing to the com­pos­i­tion of a medi­cin­al product which has a medi­cin­al ef­fect on the or­gan­ism. An act­ive in­gredi­ent com­pos­i­tion is a com­bin­a­tion of sev­er­al sub­stances, all of which have a medi­cin­al ef­fect on the or­gan­ism.²⁵⁸

² Act­ive in­gredi­ents or com­bin­a­tions of act­ive in­gredi­ents are re­ferred to in this Sec­tion as products.