The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 40
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KOICHI OGURA, KINYA OGAWA, TAKEHIKO FUKUMOTO
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Appeal No. 2001-2046
Application No. 08/665,046
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HEARD: June 11, 2002
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Before SCHEINER, MILLS and GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judges.
MILLS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. ' 134 from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 4 and 5 all the claims pending in this application.
Claim 4 is illustrative of the claims on appeal and reads as follows:
4. A method for controlling injurious insects in a field by disturbing the copulative
communication of the insects to prevent proliferation of the insects by releasing a sex
pheromone of the insect comprising substantially uniformly distributing sources of the
sex pheromone having an effective component release rate of 0.01-2 g/day over the
central region of the field at 1 to 50 locations/ha, and substantially uniformly distributing
sources of the sex pheromone having an effective component-release rate of 0.01 to
0.05 g/day over the peripheral region of the field at 500 to 2000 locations/ha.
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