This Regulation governs public information on the activities of the Federal Patent Court (the Tribunal).

¹ The Tribunal shall inform in an open and transparent manner.

² The President of the Tribunal is responsible for the information.

¹ The Tribunal publishes its final decisions on the Internet ten days after it is sent to the parties. Training decisions may be published. The Tribunal may make its decisions available to the public in printed form.

² Important decisions are preceded by a rule in all three official languages. If the decision is made in Romansh, it must also be written in that language. ¹

³ The publication is made in a non-anonymous form, unless the protection of private or public interests requires it to be anonymous. It may be made anonymous ex officio. In the case of private interests, decisions are made anonymous if requested and if this appears to be justified. ²

Any person who wishes to have information must make the request to the President of the Tribunal. The latter responds directly or forwards the request to the competent body.

Anyone who chronicles the judicial activity of the Court of First Instance is obliged to take into account the interests of protection of the participants in the proceedings, in particular their private sphere.

¹ Journalists who intend to regularly chronicle the judicial activity of the Tribunal for the media appearing or established in Switzerland may request their accreditation in writing to the President.

² Accreditation is granted if:

A.

The applicant is already accredited to the Federal Court, the Federal Criminal Court or the Federal Administrative Court; the application must be accompanied by an attestation of that accreditation, a curriculum vitae and a photograph;

B. ¹

The applicant intends to regularly chronicle the judicial activity of the Federal Patent Court and fulfils the requirements for registration in the professional register; the application must be accompanied by a curriculum vitae and a photograph; As well as a file containing the journalist's card, an attestation from the employer or any other equivalent document.

³ Accreditation may be refused where there are doubts based on the fact that the person seeking accreditation is not trustworthy.

¹ Accreditation is granted for a period of four years or, if it has already begun, for the remaining period. Journalists must request the renewal of their accreditation on time.

² The President shall revoke the accreditation when the conditions for its grant are no longer fulfilled.

¹ Accredited journalists receive a legitimising card.

² The legitimising card must be returned immediately after the revocation or expiration of the accreditation.

¹ The Tribunal provides accredited journalists with the following benefits: ²

A.

Communicating the dates of public hearings;

B.

On request, the communication of the facts concerning cases for which public debates are included in the agenda;

C.

The delivery of published decisions with regestes;

D.

The delivery of decisions that, from the point of view of journalists or the Tribunal, are of particular interest to the public;

E.

On request, the information on the progress of the proceedings, provided that the President has given his consent;

F.

The submission of the management report prior to publication;

G. ³

The delivery of press releases.

² The decisions provided for in para. 1, let. C are issued prior to publication on the Internet; if applicable, an embargo is imposed. ⁴

³ The issuance of decisions under para. 1, let. D takes place at the same time as the sending of decisions to the parties; an embargo is imposed. ⁵

¹ The court may impose an embargo on the chronicle of judicial activity. ¹

² As a general rule, the embargo ends at noon on the seventh day following the dispatch of the decisions to the parties (not including the date of dispatch).

³ The embargo lapses when, before its expiry, the public has already been informed of the content of the decision by another source of information.

¹ Accredited journalists who violate the provisions of this Regulation may be subject to a warning.

² In serious cases, accreditation may be temporarily suspended or permanently revoked.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 ^Er January 2012.