Appeal No. 97-2886
Application 08/441,493
Appellant's invention relates to an apparatus and method for
playing an anagram-type word game in a computer game and/or t.v.
game show format. Claims 1, 9, 12, 15 and 16 are representative
of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of those claims may be
found in the Appendix to appellant's brief.
The sole prior art reference of record listed by the
examiner (answer, pages 2-3) as relied upon in the rejection of
the claims under appeal is:
Cunningham et al. (Cunningham) 5,041,992 Aug. 20, 1991
As stated by the examiner on page 3 of his answer, claims 1
and 3 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 "as being
unpatentable over Cunningham."
It is, however, immediately apparent from the examiner's
somewhat meager explanation of the rejection on page 3 of the
answer (addressing only claim 1 on appeal) that he is in fact
relying upon certain admitted prior art set forth in appellant's
specification regarding a known anagram-type game called
REVELATION™ and also on other known prior art the examiner
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