Appeal No. 2001-0647
Application 08/150,703
reason, suggestion or motivation in the nature of the problem to be solved.3 Stendel
discloses that treatment of the honey bees can be carried out in a number of ways,
including direct contact with the coating carriers (column 2, lines 39-45). One of
ordinary skill in the art would have understood and recognized that inclusion of
pheromones taught by Shearer and Quisumbing in the coating carriers taught by
Stendel would have further attracted the honey bees, thereby increasing the contact
between the honey bees and the coating carriers.
We affirm the rejection of claim 42 over the combined teachings of Stendel,
Shearer, and Quisumbing.
3. The rejection of claim 42 over the combined teachings of Meyer and
Largman
Claim 42 is drawn to an article of manufacture comprising a substrate having
thereon (1) a coating of a composition comprising a binder, a pigment, an insect
toxicant, an insect feeding stimulant and an ingredient which is both a filler and a
thickener; and (2) a bait insecticide composition comprising a polymer, at least one
insect pheromone, at least one insect feeding stimulant and an insect toxicant.
3 The reason, suggestion, or motivation to combine two or more prior art
references may come from the references themselves, from knowledge of those
skilled in art that certain references or disclosures in references are known to be of
interest in particular field, or from the nature of the problem to be solved. Pro-Mold
Tool Co. v. Great Lakes Plastics Inc., 75 F. 3d 1568, 1573, 37 USPQ2d 1626,1629
(Fed. Cir 1996 ).
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