Links

Amendment of the Patent Act issue from the database of parliamentary proceedings (in German or French)
Booklet “Conflict of biotech patents” by the Science et Cité foundation (in German, French, Italian)
Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (OJ No. L 213 of 30 July 1998, p.13; pdf 185 KB)

Further documentation

Report by the Federal Department of Justice and Police “Biotechnology and Patent Law: The patentability of inventions involving biological organisms" (report in German or French)
Report by the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property “Research and Patenting in Biotechnology” (pdf 791 KB)
Expert opinion by Prof. Dr. Joseph Straus, “Options for implementing Directive 98/44/EC on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions” (in German; pdf 1463 KB)
Legal opinion by Prof. Dr François Curchod on the compatibility of the Patent Law Treaty (PLC) with the obligation to declare the source of genetic resources and traditional knowledge in patent law (in French; pdf 306 KB).
Dispatch on the approval of the revised International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants and the amendment of the Plant Variety Protection Act and the Patent Act (Federal Gazette 2004, in German, French, Italian)
Federal Decree on the approval of the revised International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants and the amendment of the Plant Variety Protection Act and the Patent Act (Final vote text, Federal Gazette 2007, in German, French, Italian)

Amendment of the Swiss Federal Act on Patents for Inventions (Federal Gazette 2007; expiry of referendum period: 11 October 2007; in German, French, Italian)
Amendment of the Swiss Federal Act on Patents for Inventions (Federal Gazette 2007; expiry of referendum period: 11 October 2007; in German, French, Italian)

Dispatch (Federal Gazette 2006, in German, French, Italian)
Amendment of the Swiss Federal Act on Patents for Inventions (Federal Gazette 2006, in German, French, Italian)
Federal Decree on the approval of the Patent Law Treaty (Federal Gazette 2006, in German, French, Italian)
Patent Law Treaty (Treaty, pdf 230 KB, Regulations, pdf 84 KB, Agreed Statements)

Preliminary draft (in German, French, Italian)
Explanatory report (in German, French, Italian)
Patent Law Treaty (Treaty, pdf 230 KB, Regulations, pdf 84 KB, Agreed Statements)
Amendments to PCT
Report by the Federal Department of Justice and Police on the result of the consultation procedure (in German, French, Italian)

Preliminary draft (in German, French, Italian)
Explanatory report (in German, French, Italian)
Patent Law Treaty (Treaty, Regulations, Agreed Statements)
Amendments to PCT
Report by the Federal Department of Justice and Police on the result of the consultation procedure (in German, French, Italian)