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

¹ The ef­fects of the pat­ent do not ex­tend to:

a.

acts un­der­taken with­in the private sphere for non-com­mer­cial pur­poses;

b.

acts un­der­taken for re­search or ex­per­i­ment­al pur­poses in or­der to ob­tain know­ledge about the sub­ject-mat­ter of the in­ven­tion in­clud­ing its uses; in par­tic­u­lar, any sci­entif­ic re­search con­cern­ing the sub­ject-mat­ter of the in­ven­tion is per­mit­ted;

c.

acts ne­ces­sary for ob­tain­ing mar­ket­ing au­thor­isa­tion for a medi­cin­al product in Switzer­land or in coun­tries with equi­val­ent medi­cin­al product con­trol;

d.

the use of the in­ven­tion for teach­ing pur­poses at edu­ca­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions;

e.

the use of bio­lo­gic­al ma­ter­i­al for the pur­pose of the pro­duc­tion or the dis­cov­ery and de­vel­op­ment of a plant vari­ety;

f.

bio­lo­gic­al ma­ter­i­al that is ob­tained in the field of ag­ri­cul­ture due to chance or is tech­nic­ally un­avoid­able;

g.³⁴

acts un­der­taken as part of a med­ic­al activ­ity con­cern­ing an in­di­vidu­al per­son or an­im­al and in­volving a medi­cin­al product, in par­tic­u­lar the pre­scrib­ing, dis­pens­ing or use of medi­cin­al products by leg­ally au­thor­ised per­sons;

h.³⁵

the dir­ect in­di­vidu­al pre­par­a­tion of medi­cin­al products in phar­ma­cies in ac­cord­ance with a doc­tor’s pre­scrip­tion or to acts con­cern­ing medi­cin­al products pre­pared in this way.

² Agree­ments which lim­it or re­voke the powers con­tained in para­graph 1 are null and void.