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

¹ The IPI shall ex­tend the term of pro­tec­tion (Art. 140e) of cer­ti­fic­ates is­sued by six months if the au­thor­isa­tion (Art. 9 TPA²⁷⁶) of a medi­cin­al product con­tain­ing the product:

a.

con­tains con­firm­a­tion that the in­form­a­tion on the medi­cin­al product re­flects the res­ults of all stud­ies per­formed in ac­cord­ance with the pae­di­at­ric test concept (Art. 11 para. 2 let. a no 6 TPA) con­sidered in the au­thor­isa­tion pro­cess; and

b.

was ap­plied for no later than six months after the ap­plic­a­tion for ini­tial au­thor­isa­tion in the European Eco­nom­ic Area of a medi­cin­al product con­tain­ing the product in which the cor­res­pond­ing medi­cin­al product in­form­a­tion re­flects the res­ults of all stud­ies per­formed in ac­cord­ance with the pae­di­at­ric test concept con­sidered for the au­thor­isa­tion.

² A cer­ti­fic­ate’s term of pro­tec­tion may only be ex­ten­ded once.