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

¹ The In­sti­tute shall on ap­plic­a­tion grant a sup­ple­ment­ary pro­tec­tion cer­ti­fic­ate (cer­ti­fic­ate) for act­ive in­gredi­ents or com­bin­a­tion of act­ive in­gredi­ents of plant pro­tec­tion products.

² Art­icles 140a para­graph 2 and 140bto 140m ap­ply by ana­logy.

³ In­gredi­ents are sub­stances and mi­croor­gan­isms, in­clud­ing vir­uses, with a gen­er­al or spe­cif­ic ef­fect:

a.

against harm­ful or­gan­isms;

b.

on plants, parts of plants or plant products.