NOTIFICATION OF
LAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER
ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT
SWITZERLAND:
FEDERAL LAW ON PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS
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Notifying Member
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Switzerland
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Details of the notified legal text
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Title
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Loi fédérale sur les brevets d'invention (Federal Law on Patents for
Inventions)
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Subject matter
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Patents
(including the protection of plant varieties)
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Nature of notification
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[X] Main
dedicated intellectual property law or regulation
[ ] Other law or regulation
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Link to legal text[*]
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https://ip-documents.info/2025/IP/CHE/25_03722_00_f.pdf
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Notification status
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[ ] First notification
[ ] Amendment or revision to notified legal text
[X]_ Replacement or consolidation of
notified legal text(s)
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Previous notification(s) referred to
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IP/N/1/CHE/P/24
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Brief description of the notified legal text
Article
81.3: amendment to the penalty for the offender of one of the acts listed under
Article 66 of this law, where the offender acts for commercial gain. (Article
81.3, third sentence repealed: "In the case of a custodial sentence, a
monetary penalty is also applied"; sentence repealed by provision I 8 of
the Federal Law of 17 December 2021 on the harmonization of sentencing policy,
with effect from 1 July 2023 (RO 2023 259; FF 2018 2889)).
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Language(s) of notified legal text
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French
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Entry into force
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1 July 2023
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Other date
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Adoption: 17 December 2021
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Notification details
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Submission date of notification
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4 June 2025
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Other information
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Agency or authority
responsible
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Institut Fédéral de la Propriété
Intellectuelle, IPI (Federal Institute of Intellectual
Property)
Stauffacherstrasse 65/59g
CH-3003 Bern
Telephone: +41 31 377
77 77
Email: info@ipi.ch
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Agreement in the form supplied by the Member concerned; the WTO Secretariat
does not endorse or revise their content.