Ex parte KITTEN - Page 3




          Appeal No. 96-0513                                                          
          Application No. 08/149,766                                                  

               amount of a fertilizer composition comprising a                        
               combination of humic acid with nitrogen, phosphorus,                   
               calcium and boron, each of which is present therein                    
               in an effective amount, and the humic acid is of a                     
               type which is suitable, in the presence of an                          
               effective amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium                      
               and boron, to alter significantly the sugar                            
               concentration in the plant leaves on which said                        
               fertilizer composition is sprayed.                                     
               13. A method                                                           
               of claim 1 in which the composition comprises 2                        
                                                   TM        TM                       
               parts by volume of each of Foli-zyme  and Sett  for                    
               each part by volume of Charge .TM                                        







               The references of record which are being relied on by the              
          examiner as evidence of obviousness are:                                    
          Nagasawa et al. (Nagasawa)     3,617,237           Nov.  2,                 
          19712                                                                       
          Arnold                         4,652,294           Mar. 24,                 
          1987                                                                        
          Bellanger, French Patent 75 19160, published January 14, 1977               
               Claims 1, 5, 6, 8 through 17, 19 and 20 stand rejected                 
          under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable from the                        
          disclosure in Arnold considered with Nagasawa and Bellanger.                

           This U.S. patent is the equivalent of Belgian Patent2                                                                      
          744,379.                                                                    
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