Appeal No. 1999-0180
Application No. 08/629,260
not being readable on the elected species. An amendment filed
subsequent to the final rejection on July 11, 1997 (Paper No.
12) has been approved for entry by the examiner. See the
advisory letter mailed July 28, 1997 (Paper No. 13).
Appellants’ invention pertains to a depilation apparatus
comprising a depilation member for gripping hairs on human
skin and pulling the hairs from the skin. Claim 21, the sole
independent claim on appeal, is illustrative of the appealed
subject matter. A copy of claim 21 is found in an appendix to
appellants’ main brief.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner as
evidence of obviousness are:
Sciple 919,649 Apr. 27,
1909
Garenfeld et al. (Garenfeld) 5,346,499 Sep. 13,
1994
Claims 2-5, 14-19 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Garenfeld in view of Sciple.1
Reference is made to appellants’ main and reply briefs
(Paper Nos. 16 and 18) and to the examiner’s answer (Paper No.
1A rejection of claims 2-5, 14-19 and 21 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, made in the final rejection has been
withdrawn. See Paper No. 13.
2
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