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 Status
Claims 1-12 are pending.
Claims 1-12 have been examined.
Claims 1-12 are rejected.
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant's claim for foreign priority based on an application filed in EP on 02/08/2022 (application 22155616.0). Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements submitted on 11/19/2024 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement has been considered by the examiner.
Drawings
The present application contains no drawings.
Claim Objections
Claim 2 is objected to for the following informality:
In claim 2, the phrase “is the range of 40 to 80 wt% of the dry composition” should be amendment to read “is in the range of 40 to 80 wt% of the dry composition” to improve clarity and to be consistent with similar language used in other claims, for example, claim 5.
Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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.
[1] Claims 1-12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (patent IN201821030525A, published 02-14-2020).
With regard to claims 1-12, the reference teaches reconstitutable powder for personal care comprising an anionic surfactant and co-surfactant in an amount of 5 to 95 wt.% (reference claims 1(c) and 8, inter alia); chelating agents, including EDTA, in an amount of 0.3 to 2 wt.% (reference claim 1(e) and 7); preservatives in amounts of 0.4 to 3.0 wt.% (reference claim 1(f)); thickening agents, such as carboxy methyl cellulose (instant page 13, line 7), in amounts of 2 to 30 wt.% (reference claims 1(d) and 6); and disodium lauryl sulfosuccinate (reference claim 8). The reference further teaches reconstituting the dry composition with a liquid carrier at a dilution factor of 1:20-1:21 to obtain the liquid formulation (reference claim 9, and page 5, lines 10-13). Accordingly, the reference anticipates claims 1-12.
Conclusion
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/ALI M. ALAOUIE/ Examiner, Art Unit 1614
/ALI SOROUSH/ Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 1614