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

¹ Any per­son who wishes to ob­tain a pat­ent for an in­ven­tion must file a pat­ent ap­plic­a­tion with the IPI.

² The pat­ent ap­plic­a­tion must con­tain:

a.

a re­quest for the grant of a pat­ent;

b.¹¹⁵a de­scrip­tion of the in­ven­tion and, where a claim is made for a se­quence de­rived from a se­quence or par­tial se­quence of a gene, a spe­cif­ic de­scrip­tion of the func­tion it per­forms;

c.

one or more pat­ent claims;

d.

the draw­ings to which the de­scrip­tion or claims of the pat­ent refer;

e.

an ab­stract.¹¹⁶

³ …¹¹⁷