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

¹ Cer­ti­fic­ates may also be gran­ted on the basis of pat­ents that have lapsed at the end of their max­im­um term between 8 Feb­ru­ary 1997 and the Amend­ment to this Act of 9 Oc­to­ber 1998²⁹² com­ing in­to force.

² The term of pro­tec­tion of the cer­ti­fic­ate is cal­cu­lated in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 140e; its ef­fects do not be­gin un­til the pub­lic­a­tion of the ap­plic­a­tion for the grant of a cer­ti­fic­ate.

³ The ap­plic­a­tion must be filed with­in two months of the Amend­ment to this Act of 9 Oc­to­ber 1998 com­ing in­to force. In the event that the time lim­it is not met, the IPI shall re­fuse the ap­plic­a­tion.

⁴ Art­icle 48 para­graphs 1, 2 and 4 ap­ply cor­res­pond­ingly for the time peri­od between the lapse of the pat­ent and the pub­lic­a­tion of the ap­plic­a­tion.