Appeal No. 98-0979 Page 3
Application No. 08/517,909
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a combined dice and
card game. Claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and a copy of claim 1, as it appears in the appendix to
the appellants' brief, is reproduced below.
Claims 1 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, as being incomplete for omitting essential
steps, such omission amounting to a gap between the steps.
Claims 1 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, as based on a disclosure which is not
enabling.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 11, mailed June 19, 1997) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the appellants'
appeal brief (Paper No. 10, filed May 5, 1997) and amended
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