Appeal No. 2000-0954 Page 5
Application No. 08/972,206
Implicit in this rejection is the examiner's view that the
above noted modification of Woods would result in a method
which corresponds to the method recited in claim 1 in all
respects. We do not agree since this modification of Woods
would not result in a method of cleaning poultry manure from
support surfaces of an egg-laying installation which comprises
contacting the manure with an aqueous solution. In that
regard, while Woods does disclose using his flooring for
collecting manure from animals, we fail to find any disclosure
of using Woods' flooring with poultry to collect poultry
manure or of contacting poultry manure with an aqueous
solution to clean poultry manure from the flooring. While
such a use may have been obvious at the time the invention was
made to a person having ordinary skill in the art as implied
by the examiner (answer, p. 4) we note that such is not part
of the rejection before us in this appeal.
Additionally, it is our view that the only suggestion for
modifying Woods to use the cleaning solution of Castrantas (an
improved dry cleaning formulation for dry cleaning garments
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