Dermatological preparations for maintaining and/or restoring healthy skin microbiota

The examiner maintains that all pending claims are obvious under §103. Obviousness means the examiner believes a person skilled in the art could have arrived at the claimed invention by combining teachings from existing patents. Two separate rejection theories are presented: one combines Lang, KR20120089530A, Nonaka, and Henn; the other combines EP2149368, KR20120089530A, and Henn. Both theories assert that these prior patents, taken together, teach or suggest all elements of the claims directed to dermatological preparations for maintaining healthy skin microbiota.

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