Patent Attorney Ordinance
(PatAO)

¹A min­im­um of twelve months of the prac­tic­al train­ing must be com­pleted on a full-time basis un­der a su­per­visor with a place of busi­ness in Switzer­land.

²Su­per­vised pro­fes­sion­al work as a pat­ent at­tor­ney in a for­eign coun­try will be re­cog­nised when it was com­pleted on a full-time basis for at least eight­een months and where, as a res­ult, the can­did­ate:

a.

ac­quired the spe­cial­ised know­ledge in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 7 and ap­plied it in prac­tice;

b.

be­came fa­mil­i­ar with the au­thor­it­ies com­pet­ent for pat­ent mat­ters in Switzer­land; and

c.

be­came fa­mil­i­ar with the form­al­it­ies and time lim­its for the pro­ced­ure of the grant of a pat­ent in Switzer­land.