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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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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