Patent ID: 7963192

Claim:
Surgical scissors, comprising: two scissor blades, each of which is made entirely of the same steel material, said scissor blades being mounted for pivotal movement relative to each other about a pivot axis and having one cutting edge each, said scissor blades having proximally of the pivot axis one steel sliding surface area each, said steel sliding surface areas sliding along each other and said scissor blades contacting each other distally of the pivot axis at a moving point of contact of the cutting edges sliding along each other when the scissors are opened and closed, and at least one of the cutting edges being provided with a hard material coating, wherein: the two steel sliding surface areas have a first hard material coating-free surface comprising said steel material of said corresponding scissor blade; and the entire scissor blades are provided with the hard material coating except for the steel sliding surface areas having the hard material coating-free surface.