A patent application comprises of a completed application form entitled "Request for the Grant of a Patent" of Schedule II of the Patents (Amendment) Rules 2009 (Form No.1) and a specification.
The Specification
The specification should be in conformity with the requirements of the Patents Act 1992 and Patents Rules 1992, typed or printed on single sided A4 pages with margins of 2 to 3 centimetres. These margins should be blank, and each page should be numbered. Two copies of the specification must be submitted.
The specification provides the technical information about the invention, and provides its legal definition. It has four components, presented in the order in which they should occur in an application:
- The title,
- A description of the invention,
- Claims, and
- Drawings, if relevant to the application.
The Title
This comes first in the specification. It should be brief, but must clearly indicate the matter to which the invention relates. The same title should appear both on the specification and the request for grant form.
Sample Specifications