adequacy of disclosure
adequacy of disclosure. Patents. Satisfaction of the statutory requirements that the specification in a patent application (1) gives enough detailed information to enable one skilled in the art to make and use the claimed invention (the enablement requirement); (2) discloses the best way the inventor knows to make and use the invention (the best-mode requirement); and (3) shows that the inventor was in full possession of the claimed invention on the application’s filing date (the written-description requirement). • A patent that fails to meet any one of these requirements may be rejected under 35 USCA § 112. Any issued patent with an inadequate disclosure is invalid, although the challenger has to overcome the presumption of validity. — Also termed sufficiency of disclosure. See ENABLEMENT REQUIREMENT; BEST-MODE REQUIREMENT. [Cases: Patents 99. C.J.S. Patents § 139.]
