Federal Act on the Federal Patent Court

¹Where the party re­ceiv­ing leg­al aid does not pre­vail, the lit­ig­a­tion costs are charged as fol­lows:

a.

Coun­sel provid­ing free leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion re­ceives ap­pro­pri­ate com­pens­a­tion from the Fed­er­al Pat­ent Court.

b.

The court costs are borne by the Fed­er­al Pat­ent Court.

c.

The op­pos­ing party is re­im­bursed the ad­vance on costs paid by it.

d.

The party re­ceiv­ing leg­al aid pays the op­pos­ing party's rep­res­ent­a­tion costs.

²Where the party re­ceiv­ing leg­al aid pre­vails and where it is pre­sumed or known that the rep­res­ent­a­tion costs are not re­cov­er­able from the op­pos­ing party, coun­sel provid­ing free leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion re­ceives ap­pro­pri­ate com­pens­a­tion from the Court's cash­ier's of­fice. The party re­ceiv­ing leg­al aid re­im­burses the court when it is later in a po­s­i­tion to do so.