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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation, Tarrytown, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
43027016 ; 430945 ; 369288 ; 428 648 ; 540145 ;
Abstract
An optical recording medium comprising a substrate, a reflecting layer and a recording layer, which recording layer consists essentially of one or more than one dye of formula (I) or chlorination or bromation products thereof ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently of the other C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl or C.sub.2 -C.sub.8 alkenyl;