Owner Eastman Kodak Company

Inventors Pappas, Socrates Peter; Saraiya, Shashikant; Huang, Jianbing; Munnelly, Heidi M

Agent Griffith Hack

Pub. Number AU-B-2003221914

PCT Number PCT/US03/11358

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/087939

Priority 10/119,454 10.04.02 US

Filing date 10 April 2003

Wipo publication date 27 October 2003

Acceptance publication date 6 March 2008

G03F 7/004 (2006.01) Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printed surfaces - Photosensitive materials

B41C 1/10 (2006.01) Forme preparation - for lithographic printing

B41M 5/36 (2006.01) Duplicating or marking methods - using a polymeric layer, which may be particulate and which is deformed or structurally changed with modification of its properties, e.g. of its optical, hydrophobic-hydrophilic, solubility or permeability properties

B41N 1/14 (2006.01) Printing plates or foils

G03F 7/00 (2006.01) Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printed surfaces

G03F 7/021 (2006.01) Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printed surfaces

G03F 7/033 (2006.01) Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printed surfaces - the binders being polymers obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds, e.g. vinyl polymers

G03F 7/40 (2006.01) Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printed surfaces - Treatment after imagewise removal, e.g. baking