Appeal No. 97-2886
Application 08/441,493
examiner’s rejection of appellant’s independent claim 15 under 35
U.S.C. § 103.
The last of appellant’s independent claims for our
consideration on appeal is method claim 16. This claim sets
forth a method for playing an anagram-type game, which method
includes, inter alia, the steps of “randomly selecting one of
said anagrams” and “moving the characters of said selected
anagram... in response to the solution of said anagram being
guessed by said player.” The step of “moving the characters of
said selected anagram” is described in the paragraph bridging
pages 4 and 5 of appellant’s specification, while the step of
“randomly selecting one of said anagrams” is described in the
paragraph bridging pages 7 and 8 of the specification. After
considering the examiner’s position as set forth on page 7 of the
answer, we, like appellant, find no teaching or suggestion in the
applied prior art concerning the last two recited steps of claim
16 on appeal.
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