Ex parte KOSLEY JR. et al. - Page 9




          Appeal No. 1997-2182                                                        
          Application 08/137,443                                                      
          specification is considered to be enabling if a person of                   
          ordinary skill in the art could "make and use" the claimed                  
          invention without resort to "undue experimentation".  In re                 
          Borkowski, 422 F.2d 904, 908, 164 USPQ 642, 645 (CCPA 1970).                
               "Whether making and using an invention would have                      
          required undue experimentation, and thus, whether a disclosure              
          is enabling under 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 1 (1994), is a legal                   
          conclusion based upon underlying factual inquiries." Johns                  
          Hopkins University v. CellPro Inc., 152 F.3d 1342, 1354, 47                 
          USPQ2d 1705, 1713 (Fed. Cir. 1998).  Nevertheless, there must               
          be a reasonable correlation between the scope of what is                    
          claimed and the scope of enablement provided by appellants'                 
          specification to the person of ordinary skill in the art.  In               
          re Vaeck, 947 F.2d 488, 495, 20 USPQ2d 1438, 1444 (Fed. Cir.                
          1991); In re Fisher, 427 F.2d 833, 839, 166 USPQ 18, 24 (CCPA               
          1970).                                                                      
               Factors to be considered in determining whether a                      
          disclosure would require "undue" experimentation include (1)                
          the quantity of experimentation necessary, (2) the amount of                
          direction or guidance presented, (3) the presence or absence                
          of working examples, (4) the nature of the invention, (5) the               
          state of the prior art, (6) the relative skill of the                       
                                          9                                           





Page:  Previous  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  Next 

Last modified: November 3, 2007