Appeal No. 95-0678
Application 07/938,960
amount is disclosed for use with flame delinted cottonseed (col.
3, lines 14-17). The cottonseed used by Hinkes, however, does
not appear to be limited to that which has been flame delinted.
Hinkes broadly teaches that “where the seed surface is covered
with linters or short fibers, e.g., cotton seed, which alter the
surface area of the polymeric-pesticide film, pretreatment is
recommended” (col. 1, lines 50-53). Hinkes points out that “[i]t
was found that the surface of cotton seed, even after flame
delinting, was covered with short fibers” (col. 1, lines 53-55),
but then broadly teaches that “[t]hus, the surface of linter
covered seed is desirably first precoated with a natural or
synthetic substance which will cover the fibers and adhere the
fibers to each other as well as to the seed” (col. 1, lines
55-58). In our view, this teaching would have fairly suggested,
to one of ordinary skill in the art, that suitable cottonseed
includes both that which has and has not been flame delinted, and
would have indicated to such a person that the amount of coating
needed is that which would cover the fibers and adhere them to
the seed. The required amount of coating, whether the amount
is within the range disclosed by Hinkes for flame delinted
cottonseed or is above this range for cottonseed which has not
been flame delinted, would have been determinable by one of
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