Federal Act on the Federal Patent Court

¹Court costs are:

a.

court fees;

b.

ex­penses, namely costs for pho­to­copy­ing leg­al briefs; post­ing sum­monses and oth­er items of ser­vice; trans­la­tions, with the ex­cep­tion of those between the of­fi­cial lan­guages; as well as com­pens­a­tion for ex­perts and wit­nesses.

²The amount of the court fees is gov­erned by the value in dis­pute, the scale and com­plex­ity of the case, the form of the pro­ceed­ings, and the fin­an­cial cir­cum­stances of the parties.

³As a gen­er­al rule, they amount to between 1,000 and 150,000 francs.

⁴In set­ting the amount of the court fees, the Fed­er­al Pat­ent Court may de­part from the frame­work of para­graph 3 where this is jus­ti­fied by spe­cial reas­ons.

⁵It may waive court costs where they have not been oc­ca­sioned by one of the parties or a third party.