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. 8b30

If the in­ven­tion con­cerns a product that con­sists of or con­tains ge­net­ic in­form­a­tion, the ef­fects of the pat­ent ex­tend to any ma­ter­i­al in which the product is in­cor­por­ated and in which the ge­net­ic in­form­a­tion is con­tained and per­forms its func­tion. Art­icle 1a para­graph 1 and 9a para­graph 3 re­main re­served.31

30 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2008 (AS 2008 2551; BBl 2006 1).

31 Second sen­tence amended in ac­cord­ance with No I of the FA of 19 Dec. 2008, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2009 (AS 2009 2615; BBl 2008303).

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