Federal Act on the Federal Patent Court

¹The fol­low­ing per­sons may not serve sim­ul­tan­eously as judges of the Fed­er­al Pat­ent Court where they are re­lated to serving Court mem­bers in the fol­low­ing ca­pa­cit­ies:

a.

spouses, re­gistered part­ners or do­mest­ic part­ners;

b.

spouses, re­gistered part­ners and do­mest­ic part­ners of sib­lings;

c.

re­l­at­ives in dir­ect lin­eage and re­l­at­ives in col­lat­er­al lin­eage up to and in­clud­ing the third de­gree;

d.

re­l­at­ives in-law in dir­ect lin­eage and re­l­at­ives in-law in col­lat­er­al lin­eage up to and in­clud­ing the third de­gree;

²The pro­vi­sion of para­graph 1 let­ter d ap­plies ac­cord­ingly to do­mest­ic part­ner­ships.