Ajinomoto Co., Inc. v. INTERNATIONAL TRADE COM'N

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• inventors who claimed the cultivation of a bacteria containing a particular mutation violated best mode requirement by failing to identify the only host strain of bacteria they used to practice that cultivation
• just as infringement requires all claim limitations to be present in an accused device, not just those that distinguish the claim from the prior art, so too does the best mode requirement necessitate disclosure of all aspects of the invention, not just the novel ones

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