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sufficiency

noun/səˈfɪʃənsi/

B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

The requirement that a patent's disclosure be complete enough for a skilled person to perform the invention.

Counsel attacked the patent on sufficiency, arguing the skilled team could not reproduce the results across the whole claim.

Similar: enablement

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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