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).
Art. 7c23

Any sub­stance or com­pos­i­tion that forms part of the state of the art as such, but not in re­la­tion to its use in a sur­gic­al, thera­peut­ic or dia­gnost­ic meth­od spe­cified in Art­icle 2 para­graph 2 let­ter a24 is deemed to be new provided it is in­ten­ded solely for such use.

23In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 17 Dec. 1976 (AS 1977 1997; BBl 1976 II 1). Amended by No I of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2008 (AS 2008 2551; BBl 2006 1).

24 Rec­ti­fied by the Ed­it­or­i­al Com­mis­sion of the Fed­er­al As­sembly (Art. 58 para. 1 ParlA – SR 171.10).

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