Appeal No. 1997-1281
Application No. 08/317,830
APPEALED SUBJECT MATTER
Claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on appeal
and reads as follows:
1. A water dispersible or water soluble organic gel
which is a continuous system comprising:
an agrochemical selected from a plant protection agent,
plant growth regulators, plant nutrients, fungicides,
herbicides, insecticides and nematicides,
1 to 50% of a water soluble or water dispersible
surfacant which contains a nonionic surfacant and optionally
an anionic surfacant, and which is able to form above 70 C,o
a liquid phase with the agrochemical,
0.1 to 50% of a gelling agent which is, at 23 C, eithero
a solid having a particle size less than 100 microns or a
liquid and which is soluble in the liquid mixture of
agrochemical and surfacant above 70 C, and less than 3% byo
weight of water.
The specification defines the claimed continuous system, gel, and
gelling agent as follows (pages 7, 8, and 9):
By the wording continuous system, it is meant a
material which is visually homogeneous, that is to say which
has the visual appearance to have only one physical phase;
this does not exclude the possibility to have small solid
particles dispersed therein, provided these particles are
small enough not to constitute a visible separate physical
phase.
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