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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1, 2, 5-14, 19, and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Farvid et al, US 2020/0002647.
Farvid et al teach a detergent composition comprising glycine, nonionic surfactant mixture, chlorhexidine, sodium hydroxide, and the balance water wherein the composition has a pH of 11 (¶105, example A4). As this reference meets all material limitations of the claims at hand, the reference is anticipatory.
Claims 1, 2, 5-10, 12-14, 19, and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Vesterager, US 10,836,982.
Vesterager teaches a hard surface cleaner comprising aspartic acid, sodium hydroxide, and amine oxide which are dissolved in water and has a pH of 13 (col. 13, example 1 and claim 1). As this reference meets all material limitations of the claims at hand, the reference is anticipatory.
Claims 1-5, 7-10, 12, 19, and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Purdy et al, US 2022/0243145.
Purdy et al teach a hard surface cleaner comprising lysine hydrochloride, anionic surfactant, sodium hydroxide, and water wherein the pH of the composition is 13 (¶64, example EA78). As this reference meets all material limitations of the claims at hand, the reference is anticipatory.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Levitt et al, US 2018/0127683.
Levitt et al teach a hard surface cleaner comprising lysine, dodecylbenzene sulfonate, sodium hydroxide and water with a pH as high as 10.5 (¶126, example E). Another example comprises lysine hydrochloride, alcohol alkoxylate, sodium carbonate, and water with a pH as high as 10.5 (example B) and yet another example comprises arginine, alcohol alkoxylate, potassium hydroxide, and water with a pH as high as 12 (example D). Preferred alcohol ethoxylates of the invention have 7 moles of ethylene oxide (¶146, Tomadol 1-7) and an alkyl group of from 12 to 14 carbon atoms (¶68). It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art to formulate a composition comprising lysine, sodium carbonate, dodecylbenzene sulfonate and C12-14 (EO7) with a pH of 11, as all of these components are taught as preferred ingredients by the reference, and a pH of 11 is within the preferred range taught by the reference.
With respect to claims 19 and 20, as the composition contemplated by the reference is the same as that claimed, it will have the same properties as the claimed composition.
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/CHARLES I BOYER/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1761