Enzo Biochem, Inc. v. Calgene, Inc., Defendant-Cross

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• holding that a specification that provided no guidance, direction, or working examples to practice the claimed invention was nonenabled
• holding a patent invalid because the claims were not enabled, as required by 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 1
• explaining that with regard to an enablement inquiry like this one, the dependent claims “stand or fall together with” the independent claim from which they depend
• analyzing the quantity of experimentation necessary to practice the claimed invention as a factor in determining en-ablement
• finding a patentee's evidence of enablement \inconclusive\ because the patentee \did not prove that the alleged post-filing successes were accomplished by following the teachings of the specification[ ]\
• discussing evidence of enablement and nonenablement in an unpredictable field of biotechnology

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