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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 MINAKO CHINOU, KATSUAKI OGAWA
and TAKAHIRO OKAZAKI
Appeal No. 2005-2453
Application No. 10/102,923
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, WALTZ and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-3,
6-12 and 14-17. Claims 4 and 13 have been withdrawn from
consideration. Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A piston ring comprising a continuous hard carbon film
containing one or more elements selected from the group
consisting of Si, W and Ni located on every surface of the piston
ring including an outer peripheral surface, an inner peripheral
surface, a top surface and a bottom surface thereof.
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