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

¹ The in­vent­or, his suc­cessor in title, or a third party own­ing the in­ven­tion un­der any oth­er title has the right to the grant of the pat­ent.

² Where sev­er­al in­vent­ors have made an in­ven­tion jointly, they have this right jointly.

³ Where two or more in­vent­ors have made the in­ven­tion in­de­pend­ently of each oth­er, the per­son who makes the earli­er ap­plic­a­tion or whose ap­plic­a­tion has the earli­est pri­or­ity date has this right.