The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte GORDON HUNTER, RANDY FESMIRE,
HARSH GUPTA and DANIEL HEUER
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Appeal No. 2006-3075
Application No. 10/313,205
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ON BRIEF
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Before ADAMS, LINCK and LEBOVITZ, Administrative Patent Judges.
ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-9, 14, 17 and 18, which are all the claims
pending in the application.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced
below:
1. A method of producing a modified surface on a metallic substrate
comprising the steps of:
modifying the texture of at least a portion of the surface of said
metallic substrate to a roughness of Rmax of about 0.4 mm or
greater; and,
oxidizing at least a portion of the surface of said metallic substrate
to form a diffusion hardened surface on said metallic substrate.
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