IP/N/1/CHE/32  
IP/N/1/CHE/P/22  
25 February  2022 
(22-1808) Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects  
of Intellectual Property Rights  Original:  French  
 
  
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  UNDER  
ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
SWITZERLAND: ORDINANCE ON PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS  
Notifying Member  SWITZERLAND  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title Ordonnance relative aux brevets d'invention  (Ordinance on Patents for 
Inventions)  
Subject matter  Patents (including the protection of plant varieties)  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2022/IP/CHE/22_0966_00_f.pdf  
Notification 
status  [  ] First notification  
[  ] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[X] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  IP/N/1/CHE/P/20, IP/N/1/CHE/22  
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
Examination of applications for patents and issue of patents for inventions, right of priority, 
immunity derived from disclosure , administrative appeal procedure, patents register, 
applications for European patents and international applications, opposition procedure for 
preliminary examinations, etc.  
 
Replacement in the Ordinance of the word "Law" by "LBI" (Patents Law ). Most recent 
amendments:  
 
Articles 3.3 and 4.5:  
- Amendment of the list of documents that no longer need to be signed  
- Translation of documents submitted as supporting evidence into an official language  
 
Articles 14.2 ; 15.1; 16.2; 18b.1; 20.1; 35.3; 48c.3; 60ca; 62a.2; 124. 3; 63.3; 86; 90.2; 92.2: 
- Procedural aspects  
 
Title 10 (concerning supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products)  
Section 1 : 127a; Section 2 ; 127b; 127c.1e and f, and 2 ; 127d Section 3 ; 127e.2; 127f; Section 
4; 127g; Section 5 ; 127h; 127i.2; 127k.2g -i and o -r, 3; 127l.3-5; 127m Section 8 ; 127n, 127o ; 
127p; 127q; 127r; 127s; 127t: 
 IP/N/1/CHE/32 • IP/N/1/CHE/P/22  
- 2 - 
  - Change to "inadmissibility" rather than "rejection" (request for the re -establishment of rights 
and overdue renewal fee , etc.) 
- Introducti on of the publication of the patent specification at the request of the applicant ; 
clarification of the text ; introduction of inadmissibility and five -year conservation period  
- Introduction of the extension of the term of protection ; clarification of application content ; 
introduction of request content ; introduction of published indications  
 
Title 11 ; Section 1 ; Article 127u ; Section 2 ; 127v; 127w; 127x; Section 3 ; 127y; 127z; 
Section  4; 127zbis; Section 5 ; 127zter; Section 6 ; 127zquarter : 
- Introduction of supplementary paediatric protection certificates and "paediatric extensions" 
(conditions, rights, nullity , deadlines, fees, procedure, register, publications)  
- Title general chapter (publication) ; clarification of the text ; introduction of the necessary use ; 
examination of the application, deadline for missed payment, refund of fees, deadline for the 
mention of the inventor, filing deadline shortened , introduction of a renewal fee for the 
extension of the term of protection and r efund  
- Introduction of the revocation of the extension of a certificate 's term of protection (form, 
examination, language etc.)  
 
Title 12 ; 127zsexies ; 127zsepties ; 127zocties : 
- New section for plant protection products (Titles 10 to 12) and definition of  "products"  
 
Title 13:  
- Transitional provisions  
 
Language(s) of 
notified legal text French  
Entry into force  1 January 2 019 
Other date  Adoption : 21 September 2 018 
 
Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  20 January 2 022 
Other information   
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Institut Fédéral de la Propriété Intellectuelle , IPI (Federal Institute of 
Intellectual Property)  
Stauffacherstrasse 65/59g  
CH - 3003 Berne  
Switzerland  
 
Telephone:  +41 31 377 77 77  
Email:  info@ipi.ch  
 
 
* Links are provided to texts of laws and regulations notified under the TRIPS Agreement in the form 
supplied by the Member concerned; the WTO Secretariat does not endorse or revise their content.