In most countries, patent law distinguishes between different categories of patent claims. Article 52 of the Federal Law on Patents for Inventions ("LPI") contains a list of different categories of patent claims. Effectively the law differentiates between method claims and product claims.
This fundamental distinction is not a mere theory: On one hand the protection granted by a patent depends on the category of the patent claim. On the other hand Article 67 LPI states the for practice important presumption that, if the patent concerns a method for the manufacture of a new product, every product of the same composition shall be presumed to have been made according to the patented method until proof to the contrary has been provided.
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