DETAILED ACTION
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.
Claim(s) 1, 2, and 16 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by King et al. (6,615,498).
King et al. discloses the invention including: a blade housing 28 configured to accommodate at least one razor blade (see Fig. 5) having a cutting edge in a longitudinal direction, the blade housing including a housing top surface toward which the cutting edge faces and a housing bottom surface opposite to the housing top surface; and a frame 36a-b coupled with the blade housing, the frame being coupled with the blade housing such that the blade housing is pivotable with respect to the frame about a first pivot axis 26 penetrating the blade housing (see Fig. 1); a restoring force 20 providing unit configured to provide a first pivot restoring force, which returns the blade housing to a first pivot rest position in a state where the blade housing is pivoted about the first pivot axis from the first pivot rest position, to the blade housing; a connector 82 coupled with one side of the razor handle and configured to be disposed on the frame bottom surface.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-15 and 17-20 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/OMAR FLORES SANCHEZ/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3724
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