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

¹ If it is an­ti­cip­ated that with­hold­ing the goods may lead to a loss be­ing in­curred, the FO­CBS may make the with­hold­ing of the goods de­pend­ent on the ap­plic­ant provid­ing them with an ac­count­ab­il­ity state­ment. As an al­tern­at­ive to this state­ment and where jus­ti­fied by the cir­cum­stances, the FO­CBS may re­quest the ap­plic­ant to provide ap­pro­pri­ate se­cur­ity.

² The ap­plic­ant shall be li­able for any losses in­curred from with­hold­ing the goods and from col­lect­ing the samples if pre­lim­in­ary meas­ures are not ordered or prove to be un­jus­ti­fied.