Ex parte FERRARO - Page 2




                 Appeal No. 96-2612                                                                                                                     
                 Application 08/137,530                                                                                                                 



                 CALVERT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                  





                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           
                                   This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims                                                                 
                 1, 3, 5 to 12, 14, 16, 18 and 19, all the claims remaining in                                                                          
                 the application.                                                                                                                       
                                   The claims in issue are drawn to a disposable razor                                                                  
                 unit (claims 1, 3, 5 to 11 and 18), a handle for a disposable                                                                          
                 razor unit (claims 12, 14 and 19), and a razor head for a dis-                                                                         
                 posable razor unit (claim 16).  The appealed claims are repro-                                                                         
                 duced in the Corrected Appellant’s Appendix, filed September                                                                           
                 15, 1997.                                                                                                                              
                                   The reference applied in the final rejection is:                                                                     
                 Iten                  4,599,793                  July 15, 1986                                                                         


                                   The claims stand finally rejected as follows:2                                                                       

                          2The examiner did not set forth these rejections in a                                                                         
                 “Grounds of Rejection” section in the examiner’s answer (see                                                                           
                 MPEP § 1208, including form paragraph 12.59 and the notes                                                                              
                 following it), but from his remarks in the “Response to Argu-                                                                          
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