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. 59a144

1 If the re­quire­ments for the grant of a pat­ent are ful­filled, the IPI shall in­form the pat­ent ap­plic­ant that the ex­am­in­a­tion pro­ced­ure has been com­pleted.

2 …145

3 The In­sti­tute shall re­ject the pat­ent ap­plic­a­tion if:

a.
the ap­plic­a­tion has not been with­drawn even though a pat­ent may not be gran­ted for the reas­ons stated in Art­icle 59 para­graph 1; or
b.
the de­fi­cien­cies men­tioned in Art­icle 59 para­graph 2 have not been remedied.

144In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 17 Dec. 1976, in force since 1 Jan. 1978 (AS 1977 1997; BBl 1976 II 1).

145Re­pealed by An­nex No 4 of the FA of 24 March 1995 on the Stat­ute and Tasks of the Swiss Fed­er­al In­sti­tute of In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty, with ef­fect from 1 Jan. 1996 (AS 1995 5050; BBl 1994 III 964).

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