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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. 1a9

1 The hu­man body as such, at all stages of its form­a­tion and de­vel­op­ment, in­clud­ing the em­bryo, is not pat­entable.

2 Ele­ments of the hu­man body in their nat­ur­al en­vir­on­ment are not pat­entable. An ele­ment of the hu­man body is, however, pat­entable as an in­ven­tion if it is pro­duced by means of a tech­nic­al pro­cess, a be­ne­fi­cial tech­nic­al ef­fect is in­dic­ated and the fur­ther re­quire­ments of Art­icle 1 are ful­filled; Art­icle 2 re­mains re­served.

9In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 17 Dec. 1976 (AS 1977 1997; BBl 1976 II 1). Amended by No I of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2008 (AS 2008 2551; BBl 2006 1).