Patent law reform

In December 2019, the Swiss Parliament passed Motion No. 19.3228 "Towards a modern Swiss patent", dubbed the "Motion Hefti". The implementation of the Motion Hefti essentially requires that Swiss patents should be granted whenever the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) can verify the novelty and attest an inventive step for the requested patent. As the responsible authority, the IPI has prepared a preliminary draft for the reform of the national intellectual property law and also presented an explanatory report on this reform. On behalf of the IPI, Polynomics conducted a Regulatory Impact Analysis on this preliminary draft, i.e., we examined how the reform would affect individual groups of stakeholders and the economy as a whole, and to what extent alternatives to the reform exist.