Appeal No. 2000-1339
Application 08/772,480
objected to as depending from a rejected base claim.
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a method for “applying a
growth regulating chemical to a cotton crop via a wick
applicator” (specification, page 1). Claim 1 is
representative of the subject matter on appeal and reads
as follows:
1. A method of applying a growth regulating
composition to a cotton crop for reducing and controlling
the rapid growth of the cotton crop, comprising: moving a
wick applicator having a growth regulating composition
therein over a field of cotton plants, and engaging an
upper portion of certain cotton plants with the wick
applicator and applying the growth regulating composition
to the cotton plants as the wick applicator is moved over
the cotton crop so as to reduce and control the rapid
growth of the cotton plan [sic, plant].
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied upon by the examiner as
evidence of obviousness are:
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