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on to prove that any compound within any of the counts was actually
prepared.
Chen et al. focus on the experience of Dr. Chen's co-workers
as evidence of the reliability of their testimony in corroborating Dr.
Chen's alleged actual reductions to practice of compounds within the
counts. Nevertheless, it is the corroborating witness' knowledge
independent of the inventor which is essential to corroboration. Here,
the Bristol-Myers Squibb employees who received samples from Dr. Chen
for testing had no independent knowledge of Dr. Chen's research or the
particular experiments he performed to allegedly produce compounds
within the counts. Rather, Dr. Chen requested various analyses of his
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