CLR II C Sufficiency of disclosure

1.
Introduction
2.
Date of compliance
3.
Parts of the application relevant for assessing sufficiency of disclosure
3.1.
Application as a whole
3.2.
Alleged effect not a feature of the claims
4.
Knowledge of skilled person relevant for assessing sufficiency of disclosure
4.1.
The disclosure is aimed at the skilled person
4.2.
References may also enable the skilled person to carry out an invention
5.
Clarity and completeness of disclosure
5.1.
General principles
5.2.
Indication of at least 'one way'
5.3.
Examples
5.4.
Invention to be performed over whole range claimed
5.5.
Parameters
6.
Reproducibility
6.1.
Repeatability
6.2.
Hypothetical embodiments
6.3.
Variants
6.4.
Use to which invention is put
6.5.
Reach-through claims
6.6.
Reproducibility without undue burden
6.6.1
Occasional failure
6.6.2
Routine selection
6.6.3
Wrong citations
6.6.4
Forbidden area of the claims
6.6.5
Non-disclosed steps
6.6.6
Machine not available
6.6.7
Experiments
6.6.8
Measuring methods
6.6.9
Chemical compounds
6.7.
Trial and error
6.8.
Post-published documents
7.
The requirement of sufficiency of disclosure in the biotechnology field
7.1.
Clarity and completeness of disclosure
7.1.1
General
7.1.2
One way of implementing invention over whole scope of claim
7.1.3
Repeatability
7.1.4
Broad claims
7.2.
Level of disclosure required for medical use – plausibility
7.3.
Level of disclosure required for antibodies
7.4.
Factors contributing to a finding of undue burden
7.5.
Requirements relating to nucleotide and amino acid sequences
7.6.
Deposit of living material
7.6.1
Substantive law questions
7.6.2
Procedural law questions
a)
Conversion into deposit under the Budapest Treaty
b)
Late submission of deposit number
8.
The relationship between Article 83 and Article 84 EPC
8.1.
Article 83 EPC and support from the description
8.2.
Article 83 EPC and clarity of claims
9.
Evidence
 

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Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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