Appeal No. 2002-1407
Application 09/157,995
matter on appeal and a copy of those claims can be found in the
Appendix to appellant’s brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Marsh GB 2180682A Apr. 1, 1987
Pickardt et al. (Pickardt) GB 2201821A Sep. 7, 1988
Advertisement for “Double or Nothing” slot machine
distributed by Bally Distributing Company (Bally), page 267, 1984
Claims 1 and 4 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Bally in view of Marsh.
Claims 2 and 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Bally in view of Pickardt.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner's full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejections and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellant
regarding those rejections, we make reference to the final
rejection (Paper No. 12, mailed June 12, 2001) and examiner's
answer (Paper No. 19, mailed February 25, 2002) for the reasoning
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