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).


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Art. 140f

1 The ap­plic­a­tion for the grant of a cer­ti­fic­ate must be filed:

a.
with­in six months of the first au­thor­isa­tion of a medi­cin­al product con­tain­ing the product in Switzer­land;
b.
with­in six months of the grant of the pat­ent if this was gran­ted later than the first au­thor­isa­tion.266

2 In the event that the time lim­it is not met, the IPI shall re­fuse the ap­plic­a­tion.

266 Amended by An­nex No 2 of the FA of 18 March 2016, in force since 1 Jan. 2019 (AS 2017 2745, 2018 3575; BBl 2013 1).

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