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[CITE: 35USC162]

 
                            TITLE 35--PATENTS
 
        PART II--PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS AND GRANT OF PATENTS
 
                        CHAPTER 15--PLANT PATENTS
 
Sec. 162. Description, claim

    No plant patent shall be declared invalid for noncompliance with 
section 112 of this title if the description is as complete as is 
reasonably possible.
    The claim in the specification shall be in formal terms to the plant 
shown and described.

(July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 804.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on Title 35, U.S.C., 1946 ed., Sec. 33, part (R.S. 4888, 
amended (1) Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 94, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 958, (2) May 23, 
1930, ch. 312, Sec. 2, 46 Stat. 376).
    The first paragraph is the provision in R.S. 4888 (see section 112). 
The second paragraph is not in the statute but represents the actual 
practice.
