Appeal No. 2000-0210 Page 5
Application No. 08/893,906
materials for use as the anti-adhesive to be added to the
backing ring, nor is it disclosed how this anti-adhesive may
be added."
The appellants argue (brief, p. 7) (1) that the
specification clearly teaches that an anti-adhesive can be
added to the polymer that the backing ring is made of, and (2)
that a person skilled in the art would know to mix the anti-
adhesive with the polymer before the backing ring is molded.
An analysis of whether the claims under appeal are
supported by an enabling disclosure requires a determination
of whether that disclosure contained sufficient information
regarding the subject matter of the appealed claim as to
enable one skilled in the pertinent art to make and use the
claimed invention. The test for enablement is whether one
skilled in the art could make and use the claimed invention
from the disclosure coupled with information known in the art
without undue experimentation. See United States v.
Telectronics, Inc., 857 F.2d 778, 785, 8 USPQ2d 1217, 1223
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