Section 14(3) of the Patents Act states that specifications must be
clear and complete enough to enables person skilled in the art to
work invention without undue experimentation.
Asahi Kasei Kogyo: A skilled person required not only formula of
chemical compound but, in this instance, also required the means
by which the compound could be produced.
However, if by an inevitable consequence of following the
information disclosed in prior art, the invention is made, then the
invention will have been anticipated.
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