Appeal No. 2005-1035
Application No. 09/800,153
manifold 18 connected downstream of the port and a plurality of
elongate tubing members 30, 34 connected to the outlets of the
distribution manifold, each tubing member extending through at
least one wall of the building and having fluid discharge openings
38 spaced along the tubing members. This appealed subject matter
is adequately illustrated by independent claim 1 which reads as
follows:
1. A system for distributing pesticide into interior walls of
a building comprising
a port mounted in an exterior wall of the building, said port
being adapted to receive a discharge portion of a fluid injection
device wherein the injection device includes an inert gas inlet, a
pesticide inlet, and valve means for selectively providing inert
gas and pesticide to the discharge portion,
a distribution manifold connected downstream of the port
having an inlet portion and a plurality of outlets,
a plurality of elongate tubing members connected to the
outlets, each tubing member extending through at last [sic, least]
one wall of the building and having fluid discharge openings spaced
along said tubing members.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the Examiner
as evidence of obviousness:
Hill 2,246,731 June 24, 1941
Wing 2,862,765 Dec. 2, 1958
Jackson 4,800,672 Jan. 31, 1989
Konieczynski 4,917,296 Apr. 17, 1990
Cann 5,310,114 May 10, 1994
Claims 1-5, 7 and 8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Jackson in view of Wing, and the remaining
appealed claims are correspondingly rejected over these references
in various combinations with the other references listed above.
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