Appeal No. 94-4145
Application No. 07/882,252
Reply Brief in their entirety. Although the Yukikazu
reference, as argued by appellants, does not state that its
composition can be provided in granule form, the Chan
reference indicates at the paragraph bridging columns 12 and
13 that a composition similar to one shown by Yukikazu can be
formulated
as wettable powders or granular formulations. Note also
that both the compositions of Yukikazu and Chan can be
broadly categorized as pesticidal compositions. Moreover, we
observe that appellants acknowledge that “it has already been
known that solid pesticides can be formulated into water
dispersible granules.” See specification, page 1, lines 15-
18. Since wettable powders containing insecticides are in
solid form and since granules and powders are conventional
forms by which pesticides, inclusive of insecticides, are
used, Yukikazu and Chan as a whole would have suggested to one
of ordinary skill in the art to provide the insecticide
composition of the type described by Yukikazu in the known
forms, such as granules. This is especially true in the
present case since simple observation by the skilled artisan
would have revealed that wettable powders would scatter away
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