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

¹ For a peri­od of five years after the amend­ment of 18 March 2016³⁰⁰ to this Act comes in­to force, the ap­plic­a­tion for re­new­al of the term of pro­tec­tion of a cer­ti­fic­ate may be sub­mit­ted no later than six months be­fore its ex­piry.

² For a peri­od of five years after this amend­ment comes in­to force, the ap­plic­a­tion for a pae­di­at­ric cer­ti­fic­ate may be made at the latest six months be­fore the end of the max­im­um term of the pat­ent.

³ If the au­thor­isa­tion (Art. 9 TPA³⁰¹) of a medi­cin­al product con­tain­ing the product (Art. 140n para. 1 in­tro­duct­ory sen­tence and 140t para. 1 in­tro­duct­ory sen­tence) is ap­plied for with­in six months of this amend­ment com­ing in­to force, then Art­icles 140n para­graph 1 let­ter b and 140t para­graph 1 let­ter b do not ap­ply.

Com­mence­ment date: 1 Janu­ary 1956³⁰²
Art. 89 para. 2, 90 para. 2 and 3, 91 para. 2 and 3, 96 para. 1 and 3, 101 para. 1, 105 para. 3: 1 Oc­to­ber 1959³⁰³