Appeal No. 1998-0150
Application No. 08/435,224
they not teach or suggest employing the above-mentioned
roughening agent containing layer just below a metal recording
layer to “induce . . . deformation spots into this metal
layer,” but they also do not teach or suggest using their
roughening agent containing layer in a heat-mode recording
material. Nor has the examiner explained why it would have
been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to use the
roughening agent containing layer employed in Yoshihara’s
electrophotographic photosensitive member or Grzeskowiak’s
photographic elements just below the metal recording layer of
the heat-mode recording material of the type described in
Tabei or Wada.
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