Appeal No. 2000-0049
Application 08/826,209
1995
Okamura 5-23903 Feb. 2,1
1993
(Japanese patent publication)
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
follows: claims 1, 2, 5-9, 12, 18 and 19 over Okamura in view
of Taniguchi, and claims 3 and 10 over Okamura in view of
Taniguchi and the admitted prior art.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections and remand the
application to the examiner.
Okamura discloses a diamond-coated cutter which “consists
of a substrate and a double diamond coat layer constituted by
a first diamond layer mainly composed of (100) crystal plane
formed via a wax material on the surface of the above-
mentioned substrate and a second diamond layer mainly composed
of (111) crystal plane coated on the above-mentioned first
diamond layer” (page 5).
Citations herein to Okamura are to an English translation thereof, a copy of which is provided1
to the appellant with this decision.
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