Ex Parte Clipstone et al - Page 1



               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                       
               today was not written for publication in a law journal                     
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                                 

                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                          
                                                                                         
                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                             
                                    AND INTERFERENCES                                     
                                                                                         
                       Ex parte COLIN CLIPSTONE, STEVE S. HAHN,                           
                          YIQIAN ERIC LIU, NEVILLE SONNENBERG                             
                                     and ANDREW ZHUK                                      
                                                                                         
                                  Appeal No. 2006-0263                                    
                               Application No. 10/379,264                                 
                                                                                         
                                        ON BRIEF                                          
                                                                                         
          Before KIMLIN, OWENS and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent                
          Judges.                                                                         
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                            

                                   DECISION ON APPEAL                                     
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 2, 4-6,               
          9-11, 13 and 22-24.  Claim 2 is illustrative:                                   
               2.  A razor blade, comprising                                              
                       a substrate with a cutting edge defined by a                       
          sharpened tip and adjacent facets;                                              
                       a coating consisting of a carbon-containing material               
          selected from the group consisting of diamond-like carbon,                      
          diamond, and amphorous diamond, doped with chromium or an alloy                 
          of chromium, on the cutting edge, the coating including from 0.1                
          to 10 atomic percent chromium; and                                              
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