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

¹ The pat­ent ap­plic­a­tion must con­tain in­form­a­tion on the source:

a.

of the ge­net­ic re­source to which the in­vent­or or the pat­ent ap­plic­ant had ac­cess, provided the in­ven­tion is dir­ectly based on this re­source;

b.

of tra­di­tion­al know­ledge of in­di­gen­ous or loc­al com­munit­ies of ge­net­ic re­sources to which the in­vent­or or the pat­ent ap­plic­ant had ac­cess, provided the in­ven­tion is dir­ectly based on this know­ledge.

² If the source is un­known to the in­vent­or or the pat­ent ap­plic­ant, the pat­ent ap­plic­ant must con­firm this in writ­ing.