14. Specifications. - (1) Every specification, whether provisional or complete, shall commence with the title of the invention, the name, nationality and address of the applicant as given in the application and shall be signed and dated at the end by the applicant or his agent. (2) A specification in respect of a patent of addition shall contain a specific reference to the number of the main patent, or the application for the main patent, as the case may be, and a definite statement that the invention comprises an improvement in, or a modification of, the invention claimed in the specification of the main patent granted or applied for. (3) Where the invention is capable of representation by drawings, such drawings shall be prepared in accordance with the provisions of rules 16 to 19 and shall be supplied with, and referred to in detail, in the specification. Provided that in the case of a complete specification if the applicant desires to adopt the drawings filed with his provisional specification as the drawings or part of the drawings for the complete specification, it shall be sufficient to refer to them in the complete specification as those left with the provisional specification. (4) Irrelevant or other matter, not necessary, in the opinion of the Controller, for elucidation of the invention, shall be excluded from the title, description, claims and drawings. (5) Except in the case of an application (other than a convention application) which is accompanied by a complete specification, a declaration as to the inventorship of the invention shall be filed in Form 5 with the complete specification or at any time before the expiration of three months from the date of filing of the complete specification, as the Controller may allow on an application made in Form 4.
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