Ex Parte Slavtcheff et al - Page 1



                              The opinion in support of the decision being entered today                         
                                       is not binding precedent of the Board.                                    
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                 
                                                  __________                                                     
                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                  
                                          AND INTERFERENCES                                                      
                                                  __________                                                     
                                Ex parte CRAIG STEPHEN SLAVTCHEFF,                                               
                            JESSICA WEISS GOLDBERG, ANAT SHILOACH,                                               
                    MICHAEL MASSARO, and CHRISTINE ELIZABETH KENNEDY                                             
                                                  __________                                                     
                                              Appeal 2007-0321                                                   
                                            Application 10/669,547                                               
                                           Technology Center 1600                                                
                                                  __________                                                     
                                         Decided: September 6, 2007                                              
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                Before TONI R. SCHEINER, ERIC GRIMES, and RICHARD M.                                             
                LEBOVITZ, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                          
                GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                             


                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                    
                       This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 involving claims to a method                      
                of removing hair.  The Examiner has rejected the claims as obvious.  We                          
                have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).  We affirm.                                            
                                               BACKGROUND                                                        
                       “Depilatories are cosmetic compositions[s] which remove hair                              
                through chemical reaction . . . .  Commercially the most common agents are                       




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