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. 40e96

1 The li­cences provided for in Art­icles 36–40dare gran­ted only if ef­forts by the ap­plic­ant to ob­tain a con­trac­tu­al li­cence on ap­pro­pri­ate mar­ket terms with­in a reas­on­able peri­od of time have been un­suc­cess­ful; in the case of a li­cence in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 40d, a peri­od of 30 work­ing days is re­garded as reas­on­able. Such ef­forts are not re­quired in situ­ations of na­tion­al emer­gency or oth­er cir­cum­stances of ex­treme ur­gency or in cases of pub­lic non-com­mer­cial use.

2 The scope and term of the li­cence are lim­ited to the pur­pose for which it has been gran­ted.

3 The li­cence may only be trans­ferred with that part of the en­ter­prise which uses the li­cence. This also ap­plies to sub-li­cences.

4 The li­cence is primar­ily gran­ted for sup­ply­ing the do­mest­ic mar­ket. Art­icle 40d re­mains re­served.

5 The pro­pri­et­or of the pat­ent has the right to ap­pro­pri­ate re­mu­ner­a­tion. In as­sess­ing the re­mu­ner­a­tion, the cir­cum­stances of the in­di­vidu­al case and the eco­nom­ic value of the li­cence are taken in­to ac­count. In the case of a li­cence un­der Art­icle 40d, the re­mu­ner­a­tion is de­term­ined by tak­ing in­to ac­count the eco­nom­ic value of the li­cence in the im­port­ing coun­try, its level of de­vel­op­ment and the ur­gency in pub­lic health and hu­man­it­ari­an terms. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall spe­cify the meth­od of cal­cu­la­tion.

6 The court shall de­cide on the grant and re­voc­a­tion of li­cences, on their scope and dur­a­tion as well as on the re­mu­ner­a­tion pay­able. In par­tic­u­lar, it shall re­voke an en­titled per­son’s li­cence on re­quest if the cir­cum­stances that led to its be­ing gran­ted no longer ap­ply and it is not ex­pec­ted that they will arise again. Ap­pro­pri­ate pro­tec­tion of the leg­al in­terests of the en­titled per­son re­mains re­served. Where a li­cence is gran­ted un­der Art­icle 40d, leg­al rem­ed­ies have no sus­pens­ive ef­fect.

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

BGE

139 III 110 (4A_443/2012) from 5. Februar 2013
Regeste: Art. 26 Abs. 1 lit. a PatGG; Art. 72 f. PatG; sachliche Zuständigkeit des Bundespatentgerichts für gegen den Staat gerichtete Patentverletzungsklagen. Massgebende Haftungs- und Zuständigkeitsordnung für vermögensrechtliche Ersatzansprüche gegen den Staat wegen angeblicher Patentverletzung (E. 2.2). Anwendbarkeit des Patentgesetzes sowie Zuständigkeit des Bundespatentgerichts für Unterlassungsklagen (Art. 72 PatG) gegen den Bund (E. 2.3).

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