Appeal No. 2006-1873 Page 3
Reissue Application No. 08/058,163
from approximately 5% to approximately 95% by weight of a cross-
linked hydrophobic comb-like polymer lattice;
from approximately 95% to about 5% by weight of a pheromone;
said monomers of said cross-linked polymer and said pheromone
being polymerized in situ;
said pheromone being dispersed uniformly throughout and
entrapped within said polymer lattice.
8. Thus, reissue claim 1 and claims dependent thereon enlarge the scope of the
originally issued claims by deleting the requirement that the pheromone be a
solid phase pheromone.
9. The reissue application also adds four new independent claims, i.e., claims 15
through 19.
10. Reissue claim 18 reads (emphasis added):
A solid pheromone entrapped composition comprising from
approximately 5% to approximately 95% by weight of a cross-linked
hydrophobic comb-like polymer lattice; from approximately 95% to about
5% by weight of a compound which is a water insoluble liquid
pheromone or synthetic attractant; monomers of said cross-linked
polymer and said compound being polymerized in situ; said compound
being dispersed uniformly throughout and entrapped within said polymer
lattice.
11. Reissue claim 18 enlarges the scope of the claims of the original patent both by
reciting both a “liquid” pheromone and by adding “or synthetic attractant.”
12. Reissue claims 15 through 17 and 19 all recite a solid pheromone entrapped
composition comprising from approximately 5% to approximately 95% by weight
of a cross-linked hydrophobic comb-like polymer lattice and from approximately
95% to about 5% by weight of a pheromone compound, wherein the monomers
of said cross-linked polymer and said pheromone compound are polymerized in
situ and said compound is dispersed uniformly throughout and entrapped within
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