In re Sussman

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting all of the claims, Nos. 22 and 24 to 27, inclusive, in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to a pre-tonsorial preparation for application to the 'skin before shaving.

Claims 22, 26, and 27 are sufficiently illustrative of the appealed claims. They read:

22. A pre-tonsorial preparation for application to the skin before shaving to impart relative rigidity to the hairs, causing them to uncurl and assume an erect…