35 U.S.C. § 162 — Description, claim

This section relaxes the normal description requirement for plant patents. Normally, section 112 sets a standard for a patent's written description, and failing that standard can make a patent invalid. This section says a plant patent will not be declared invalid for failing to meet section 112, as long as the description is as complete as is reasonably possible — recognizing that describing a living plant may be harder than describing other inventions. The claim in the specification — the formal legal statement of what is patented — must be in formal terms, and must match the plant shown and described in the patent.