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

In ac­cord­ance with the fol­low­ing pro­vi­sions, the fol­low­ing per­sons may be held li­able un­der civil and crim­in­al law:

a.

any per­son who uses a pat­en­ted in­ven­tion un­law­fully; im­it­a­tion is also deemed to con­sti­tute use;

b.¹⁶³

any per­son who re­fuses to no­ti­fy the au­thor­ity con­cerned of the ori­gin and quant­ity of products in his pos­ses­sion which are un­law­fully man­u­fac­tured or placed on the mar­ket, and to name the re­cip­i­ents and dis­close the ex­tent of any dis­tri­bu­tion to com­mer­cial and in­dus­tri­al cus­tom­ers;

c.

any per­son who re­moves the pat­ent mark from products or their pack­aging without au­thor­isa­tion from the pro­pri­et­or of the pat­ent or the li­censee;

d.

any per­son who abets any of the said of­fences, par­ti­cip­ates in them, or aids or fa­cil­it­ates the per­form­ance of any of these acts.