Appeal No. 95-0972 Page 3
Application No. 07/650,453
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a method of using
tree crops as pollutant control. A substantially correct copy
of the claims under appeal are reproduced in the appendix to
the appellant's brief.2
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
1988 Abstract of "Nitrogen Fixing Research Reports"
Organic Gardening, "Taking Hardwood Cuttings," pp. 26-27,
November 1989
Successful Farming, "Dollars from Filter Strips," pp. 36-37,
February 1992
Claims 1 through 19 and 22 through 29 stand rejected
under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) based upon a public use or sale of the
invention.
2The examiner noted one error in claim 1 on page 2 of the
answer.
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