Patent ID: 7399530

Claim:
An article with a composite hard coat layer comprising a hard coat layer on a surface of the article and an anti-staining surface layer on a surface of the hard coat layer, wherein the hard coat layer is made of a cured product of a hard coat agent composition comprising an active energy ray-curable compound having at least one reactive (meth)acryloyl group; the anti-staining surface layer is made of a cured product of a surface material comprising a fluorine-containing polyfunctional (meth)acrylate compound, where the surface material does not comprise any fluorine-containing monofunctional (meth)acrylate compounds; the composite hard coat layer is produced by a process comprising simultaneously irradiating with active energy rays the hard coat agent composition and the surface material while the hard coat agent composition is in direct contact with the surface material; and the article is an optical recording medium.