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

¹ The pat­ent hold­er has a claim to the pae­di­at­ric cer­ti­fic­ate.

² The pae­di­at­ric cer­ti­fic­ate shall be is­sued once only for each product.

³ If however ow­ing to the ex­ist­ence of dif­fer­ent pat­ents sev­er­al pat­ent hold­ers sub­mit an ap­plic­a­tion for the same product, the pae­di­at­ric cer­ti­fic­ate may be is­sued to each ap­plic­ant if the ad­dress­ee’s con­sent is provided with the con­firm­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 140tpara­graph 1 let­ter a.