Appeal No. 1996-3770 Page 5
Application No. 08/412,834
as applied to claims 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, and 9 above, and further in
view of Wikle.
OPINION
Having carefully considered all of the arguments and
evidence advanced by appellants and the examiner, we find
ourselves in agreement with appellants that the examiner has
failed to establish the obviousness of the claimed subject
matter within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. § 103. Accordingly, we
will not sustain the examiner's rejections.
The appealed claims are directed to a process that
includes the steps of furnishing a strip of a copper alloy of a
specified composition including from 0.38% to about 0.6%
beryllium and about 1.4% to about 2.2% nickel that has been
cold worked to a ready-to-finish gauge and thereafter treating
the strip by the ordered steps of: (1) annealing at about 1500-
1600°F, (2) cold working to reduce the gauge by about 20-60%,
and (3) age hardening the strip at about 700-900°F for about 1-
7 hours. The appealed claims are further limited such that the
combined treatment steps and conditions are required to produce
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