Appeal No. 1999-2556
Application 08/774,848
expressed above, Watson has no such deficiencies. Thus, the
appellant’s position is not well taken.
Therefore, we shall sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) rejection of claim 45 as being unpatentable over Watson
in view of Weldon.
Manning, applied to support the obviousness rejection of
independent claim 25, discloses a bait station for dispensing
poisoned feed to rodents. In Manning’s words, the bait
station
includes a bottom wall 11, preferably circular in
outline and of substantial diameter, having an
integral upstanding perimeter wall 12 or shell.
Axially arranged within the confines of the
perimeter wall 12 is an upstanding bait container or
feeder 13, welded or otherwise secured firmly to the
bottom wall 11. An externally flanged top wall or
cover 14 is seated on the perimeter wall or shell
12.
The assembly hereinabove described is secured
to a selected surface, such as a cement block or
floor 15, by embedding in the floor a headed stud 16
which may be screw threaded at its upper end to
receive the lower threaded end of an axial rod 17,
which extends outwardly through the bottom wall 11,
the bait container 13 and out through an aperture in
the cover 14. Removal of the cover 14 may be
prevented by a lock 18 engaged with the rod 17.
A plurality of equally spaced apart circular
openings 19 of a size having a diameter sufficient
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