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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today was not written for publication in a law journal                 
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                             
                                                               Paper No. 23           

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                                Ex parte SHIGEO TSUJI                                 
                                         and                                          
                                   HIDEAKI OKAMOTO                                    
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2001-0241                                  
                             Application No. 08/997,373                               
                                                                                     
                                 HEARD:  May 7, 2002                                  
                                                                                     
          Before KIMLIN, DELMENDO and NAGUMO, Administrative Patent Judges.           
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-15,             
          all the claims in the present application.  Claim 1 is                      
          illustrative:                                                               
          1.   A photosensitive lithographic printing plate having a photo-           
          sensitive resin layer formed on an aluminum substrate subjected             
          to electrolytic surface roughening in nitric acid or in an                  
          electrolyte composed mainly of nitric acid and further to anodic            
          oxidation treatment, wherein the photosensitive resin layer is              
          made of a photopolymerizable composition comprising (A) an                  
          addition-polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated bond-containing            
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