Appeal No. 2006-0012
Application No. 10/061,338
polydecenes or provide any reasons for adding the claimed
polydecenes. See the specification in its entirety, especially
page 11.
Moreover, the claimed hair bleaching compositions, by virtue
of using the transitional phrase “comprising” in the claims on
appeal, may include conventional additives selected from
millions, possibly billions, of compounds disclosed at pages 12
through 35 of the specification. Implicit in this disclosure is
that it is well within the scope of one of ordinary skill in the
art to select appropriate conventional hair treating additives
from the huge number of additives listed in the specification for
the purpose of imparting desired properties to hair bleaching
compositions.3
3 The appellants’ disclosure presumably meets the enablement requirement set forth in
the first paragraph of Section 112.
3
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