{"id":8051,"date":"2022-10-13T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocat.sea-dev-and-sun.fr\/lexique-propriete-intellectuelle\/https-www-dhenne-avocats-fr-lexique-propriete-intellectuelle-suffisance-de-la-description\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:05:04","slug":"sufficiency-of-description","status":"publish","type":"lexique","link":"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/sufficiency-of-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Sufficiency of the description"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"translation-block\"><span>The <strong>sufficiency of the Description<\/strong> in relation to the realization of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats. fr\/lexique-propriete-industrielle\/invention\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>invention<\/strong><\/a> implies that the latter is executable and reproducible by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/lexique-propriete-industrielle\/man-of-work\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>person skilled in the art<\/strong> <\/a>from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/lexique-propriete-industrielle\/description\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>description<\/strong> <\/a>and accompanying figures (L. 613-25 and L. 612-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code). A person skilled in the art should use the description and drawings to implement the invention which is the subject of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/lexique-propriete-industrielle\/claims\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>claims<\/strong><\/a>. The<\/span> description is intended to disclose the invention to the person skilled in the art. It must provide him with intellectual access to the invention, so that anyone can take cognizance of it freely, but not its industrial access. <span>Simple operations of execution or adaptation, based on the patent and the general knowledge of the skilled person, may be required to carry out the teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In other words, the description of the invention in the patent must be sufficiently clear and complete to enable an expert in the technical field to understand how the invention works and to reproduce it without further inventiveness. If the description is not sufficient, the patent may be considered invalid, as it does not fulfill its function of contributing to the state of the art by providing a complete and clear description of the invention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Sufficiency of description is indeed an important element of patent validity and is often examined during the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/patent-application\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>patent application<\/strong><\/a> examination. Courts may also consider sufficiency of description when presented with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/patent-infringement\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>patent infringement action<\/strong><\/a> to determine whether the invention is adequately described in the patent to enable the alleged infringement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8051","lexique","type-lexique","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Suffisance de la description - Dhenne Avocats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Suffisance de la description : D\u00e9finition et explications juridiques du terme sur le lexique Dhenne Avocats.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/sufficiency-of-description\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Suffisance de la description - 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