Appeal No. 2000-1914
Application No. 08/718,643
through 40, and 48 through 57. Claims 8 through 10 stand
allowed. Claim 46 stands withdrawn from consideration by the
examiner pursuant to a requirement for restriction. Claims
17, 18, 20, 23 through 25, and 47 are objected to as being
dependent upon a rejected base claim but would be allowable
according to the examiner if rewritten in independent form
including all of the limitations of the base claim and any
intervening claims. Claims 33 and 41 through 45 have been
canceled. These claims constitute all of the claims in the
application.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a device for attracting
insects, an insect trapping device, a method of urging insects
into a device, and a method of disabling insects. A basic
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
of exemplary claims 1, 28, 31, and 40, copies of which appear
in the APPENDIX to the main brief (Paper No. 28).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
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