Federal Act on the Federal Patent Court

¹The Court shall des­ig­nate one of­fi­cial lan­guage as the lan­guage of pro­ceed­ings. The lan­guage of the parties shall be taken in­to con­sid­er­a­tion where it is an of­fi­cial lan­guage.

²In mo­tions and or­al hear­ings, each of the parties may ex­press it­self in an of­fi­cial lan­guage oth­er than the lan­guage of the pro­ceed­ings.

³Eng­lish may also be used provided that the Court and the parties give their con­sent. The judg­ment and pro­ced­ur­al rul­ings shall be draf­ted in one of the of­fi­cial lan­guages in any event.

⁴Where a party sub­mits doc­u­ments that are not in one of the of­fi­cial lan­guages or, in the case of para­graph 3, not in Eng­lish, the Fed­er­al Pat­ent Court may waive the re­quire­ment of a trans­la­tion sub­ject to the agree­ment of the op­pos­ing party. Oth­er­wise it will dir­ect that a trans­la­tion should be made where this is ne­ces­sary.