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

¹ When mak­ing an ap­plic­a­tion un­der Art­icle 86b para­graph 1, the ap­plic­ant may sub­mit a writ­ten re­quest to the FO­CBS to des­troy the goods.

² If an ap­plic­a­tion for de­struc­tion is made, the FO­CBS shall no­ti­fy the de­clar­ant, hold­er or own­er of the goods ac­cord­ingly as part of the no­ti­fic­a­tion made un­der Art­icle 86c para­graph 1.

³ The ap­plic­a­tion for de­struc­tion does not res­ult in the time lim­its for ob­tain­ing pre­lim­in­ary meas­ures un­der Art­icle 86c para­graphs 2 and 3 be­ing ex­ten­ded.