The patent specification has broad and narrow interpretations. In a broad sense, patent specifications refer to various specifications published by patent offices or international patent organizations. Including the patent application specification, such as German disclosure specification, Japanese public charter bulletin, China invention patent application disclosure specification, etc. And patent specifications that have been patentable, such as American patent specifications, invention specifications of the former Soviet Union, and invention patent specifications of China.
Patent specification is the main body of patent literature. Its main function, on the one hand, is to disclose new technical information, on the other hand, it is to determine the scope of legal protection. Only in the patent specification can we find all the technical information of the patent application and the accurate legal information of the patent protection scope.
In a narrow sense, a patent specification refers to a patent specification that has been patented and granted a patent right.