Appeal No. 95-2976
Application No. 08/041,077
This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection
of claims 4 through 20 which are all of the claims remaining
in the application.2
The subject matter on appeal relates to a process for the
treatment of a plant which comprises introducing into a sap
conduction path of the plant a solid shaped treatment article
comprising a treatment agent contained in a carrier material.
Further details of this appealed subject matter are set forth
in illustrative independent claims 4 and 16 which read as
follows:
4. A process for the treatment of a plant which comprises
introducing into the region of a sap conduction path of the
plant a solid shaped treatment article comprising a treatment
agent contained in a carrier material as a matrix, the carrier
material being selected from the group consisting of a solid
degradable organic substance and a polymeric carrier material.
16. A material for the treatment of a plant which
comprises a treatment agent contained in a solid shaped
carrier material as a matrix, the carrier material being
selected from the group consisting of a solid degradable
organic substance and a polymeric carrier material.
2We consider the section 112, first paragraph,
rejection set forth in the final office action to have been
withdrawn by the examiner since it has not been repeated in
the answer. See Manual of Patent Examining Procedures section
1208, page 1200-14 (7th edition, July 1998).
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