Federal Act on the Federal Patent Court

¹The Pres­id­ent of the Fed­er­al Pat­ent Court de­cides as a judge sit­ting alone on:

a.

the sum­mary dis­missal of mani­festly in­ad­miss­ible ac­tions;

b.

pe­ti­tions for pre­lim­in­ary meas­ures;

c.

pe­ti­tions for leg­al aid;

d.

the dis­missal of pro­ceed­ings on grounds of ir­rel­ev­ance, with­draw­al or re­cog­ni­tion of the claim or set­tle­ment;

e.

ac­tions for the grant­ing of a li­cence un­der Art­icle 40d of the Pat­ent Act of 25 June 1954.¹

²He or she may en­trust some or all of these tasks to oth­er leg­ally trained judges or the second per­man­ent judge.²

³Where re­quired for leg­al or fac­tu­al reas­ons, a single judge may de­cide with two oth­er judges in a pan­el of three.³ Where the un­der­stand­ing of a tech­nic­al mat­ter is of par­tic­u­lar sig­ni­fic­ance, de­cisions must be made in a pan­el of three.