Appeal No. 95-3303
Application No. 07/960,892
2) claim 13 as unpatentable over admitted prior art in view of
Oka;
3) claims 13 and 17 over admitted prior art in view of Magden;
4) claims 17-19 and 21 as unpatentable over admitted prior art
in view of Oka or Magden further in view of Van Paesschen;
5) claim 20 as unpatentable over admitted prior art in view of
Van Paesschen, Oka, or Magden further in view of Glaser;
6) claims 14 and 15 over admitted prior art and the "secondary
references" as in rejections 1), 2), and 3) above, further in
view of Holbein; and
7) claims 14 and 16 over admitted prior art and the "secondary
references" as in rejections 1), 2), and 3) above, further in
view of Takii.
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a method of
laser marking a surface (e.g., a front plate of a piece of
equipment) wherein at least first and second differently-
colored layers of colored laquer are first formed on a carrier
from which they are subsequently transferred to the surface.
At this point in the process, the top layer of colored laquer
(i.e., the colored laquer layer "remote from the surface") is
"region-wise" exposed to laser radiation to thereby expose a
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