Appeal No. 1999-1005
Application No. 08/739,157
non-imaging sensitizer that absorbs laser radiation at a
rate sufficient to effect the imagewise ablation mass
transfer of said topcoat, and said laser radiation-ablative
topcoat also containing an imaging amount of a non-black
body, non-ablation sensitizing contrast imaging material
therein, said 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,
and (2) a receptor element in contiguous registration
therewith.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner in his Section 102 and Section 103 rejections:
Roberts 3,787,210 Jan. 22, 1974
Smith et al. (Smith) 4,496,957 Jan. 29, 1985
Stewart et al. (Stewart) 4,588,674 May 13, 1986
Barlow 4,788,128 Nov. 29, 1988
Kanno et al. (Kanno) 4,908,294 Mar. 13, 1990
DeBoer 4,973,572 Nov. 27, 1990
Ito et al. (Ito)2 61-206691 Sep. 12, 1986
(published Japanese Kokai Patent Application)(hereinafter
referred to as the Japanese reference).
Claims 87, 88, 90-92, 94-99, 108, 109 and 116 are rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by, or
alternatively under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being obvious over,
DeBoer. In addition, various appealed claims are rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being obvious over DeBoer in various
combinations with the above listed references. Finally, claims
2We rely upon a full English translation of this document,
previously made of record.
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