Appeal No. 1999-1005
Application No. 08/739,157
The subject matter on appeal relates to an organization and
to a system for transferring a contrasting pattern of
intelligence from an ablation-transfer imaging medium to a
receptor element. The organization consists essentially of an
ablation-transfer imaging medium, which includes a support
substrate and a laser radiation-ablative topcoat essentially
coextensive therewith, and a receptor element in contiguous
registration with the imaging medium. The topcoat contains an
ablative-transfer effecting amount of at least one non-black
body, non-imaging sensitizer that absorbs laser radiation at a
rate sufficient to effect the imagewise ablation mass transfer of
the topcoat, and the topcoat also contains an imaging amount of a
non-black body, non-ablation sensitizing contrast imaging
material comprising a yellow dye or pigment, a magenta dye or
pigment, or a cyan dye or pigment. This appealed subject matter
is adequately illustrated by independent claim 87 which reads as
follows:
87. An organization adopted for transferring a
contrasting pattern of intelligence from an ablation-
transfer imagining medium to a receptor element, consisting
essentially of (1) an ablation-transfer imaging medium
including a support substrate and a laser radiation-ablative
topcoat essentially coextensive therewith, said essentially
coextensive topcoat containing an effecting ablative-
transfer effecting amount of at least one non-black body,
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