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).
Art. 148293

1 No trans­la­tion of the pat­ent spe­cific­a­tions un­der Art­icle 113 para­graph 1294 is re­quired for European pat­ents which are not pub­lished in one of the of­fi­cial Swiss lan­guages if the men­tion of the grant of the European pat­ent, or in the case of the main­ten­ance of the pat­ent in amended form the pub­lic­a­tion of the de­cision re­gard­ing an op­pos­i­tion, or in the case of a lim­it­a­tion of the pat­ent the men­tion of the lim­it­a­tion has been pub­lished in the European Pat­ent Bul­let­in less than three months pri­or to the Amend­ment to this Act of 16 Decem­ber 2005 com­ing in­to force.

2 Art­icles 114295 and 116296 also ap­ply after the Amend­ment to this Act of 16 Decem­ber 2005 comes in­to force to trans­la­tions which have either been sent to the de­fend­ant in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 112297, or made pub­lic by the IPI or which have been sub­mit­ted to the IPI un­der Art­icle 113298.

293In­ser­ted by Art. 2 of the FD of 16 Dec. 2005 on the Ap­prov­al of the Agree­ment on the Ap­plic­a­tion of Art­icle 65 of the European Pat­ent Con­ven­tion and on the Amend­ment of the Pat­ents Act, in force since 1 May 2008 (AS 2008 1739; BBl 20053773).

294 AS 1977 1997

295 AS 1977 1997, 1999 1363

296 AS 1977 1997

297 AS 1977 1997, 1999 1363

298 AS 1977 1997, 1995 2879, 2007 6479

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