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).


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Art. 1b10

1 A nat­ur­ally oc­cur­ring se­quence or par­tial se­quence of a gene is not pat­entable as such.

2 Se­quences that are de­rived from a nat­ur­ally oc­cur­ring se­quence or par­tial se­quence of a gene may, however, be pat­en­ted as an in­ven­tion if they are pro­duced by means of a tech­nic­al pro­cess, their func­tion is spe­cific­ally in­dic­ated, and the fur­ther re­quire­ments of Art­icle 1 are ful­filled; Art­icle 2 re­mains re­served.

10 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2008 (AS 2008 2551; BBl 2006 1).

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