Appeal No. 1998-3004 Page 3
Application No. 08/290,590
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to an insect bait
station. An understanding of the invention can be derived
from a reading of exemplary claim 17, which appears in the
appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Schlesinger 1,573,278 Feb. 16,
1926
Claims 5 to 8 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by Schlesinger.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the second Office action
(Paper No. 5, mailed February 1, 1996) and the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 16, mailed February 26, 1997) for the
examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and
to the appellants' brief (Paper No. 15, filed November 14,
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