The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007