Appeal No. 97-2886
Application 08/441,493
the applied prior art, and to the respective positions
articulated by appellant and the examiner. As a consequence of
our review, we have made the determinations which follow.
Turning first to the examiner's rejection of independent
claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, we note that this claim requires,
inter alia, that each of the characters of the unsolved
arrangement of the one or more anagrams in the unsolved area of
the game board have "a path defined by a predetermined plurality
of points from said character's initial position to said
character's final position" in the solution area of the game
board, and that the apparatus include "character moving means for
moving each of said characters along its respective path... in
response to selection of said character." As explained in the
paragraph bridging pages 4 and 5 of the specification, this
aspect of appellant's invention contributes to easy visualization
of the progress of the puzzle from the time the puzzle is
originally presented until the time the puzzle is completely
solved and distinguishes appellant's game from the known previous
version of REVELATION™ wherein the letters/characters of the
anagrams apparently just disappeared from their initial position
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