Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights
(Copyright Act, CopA)

¹ Ap­peals against de­cisions of the IPI and the Ar­bit­ra­tion Com­mis­sion may be brought be­fore the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court.

² The pro­ced­ure for ap­peals be­fore the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court is sub­ject to the Fed­er­al Act of 17 June 2005⁸⁵ on the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court and the Fed­er­al Act of 20 Decem­ber 1968⁸⁶on Ad­min­is­trat­ive Pro­ced­ure (APA). The fore­go­ing is without pre­ju­dice to the fol­low­ing ex­cep­tions:

a.

Ap­peals against de­cisions of the Ar­bit­ra­tion Com­mis­sion do not have sus­pens­ive ef­fect; the grant­ing of sus­pens­ive ef­fect is ex­cluded in in­di­vidu­al cases.

b.

Art­icle 53 APA is not ap­plic­able.

c.

For fil­ing a re­sponse, the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court sets a time lim­it of a max­im­um 30 days, which can­not be ex­ten­ded.

d.

An ex­change of writ­ten sub­mis­sions un­der Art­icle 57 para­graph 2 APA gen­er­ally does not take place.⁸⁷