Appeal No. 97-2886
Application 08/441,493
final position, and "indicator means for directing the attention
of players of said game to a selected one of said unsolved areas
before a player guesses the solution of the anagram in said
unsolved area." Page 6, lines 19-25, of appellant's specification
discusses the indicator means and notes that in the disclosed
anagram game such indicator means allows everyone to focus their
attention on the area of the game board where movement of
characters will take place in the then immediate future.
In rejecting claim 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, the examiner
has urged (answer, page 6) that highlighting features are old to
direct image manipulations. In this regard, the examiner
suggests that we note any Windows application where an icon is
highlighted upon being selected prior to any manipulation. While
it is certainly true that highlighting features in computer
systems of the type referred to by the examiner are known, we are
of the opinion that the proposed combination of such known
highlighting features with the previously known anagram game of
REVELATION™ in the particular manner now posited by the examiner
so as to arrive at the apparatus required in appellant’s claim 12
on appeal is based on impermissible hindsight derived from
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