Legal Opinion
Scandiamant Aktiebolag v. Commissioner of Patents
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 12, 1974No. 73--1396PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATTHEWS, Senior District Judge:
Inventors Olle Lindstrom and Erik Lundblad filed an application for a patent on a method for preparing diamonds for use with grinding wheels. The claimed invention is the alleged discovery that the use of diamonds coated with metal in a prescribed thickness range in a resin bonded grinding wheel will improve the grinding results, i. e., the measure of grinding efficiency of the wheel, by as much as 200% to 300%. The thickness range for this metal coating is between 0.5 and 25 microns.
The Patent Office rejected the application, and the Board of Appeals affirmed…
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