Appeal No. 1999-1722
Application No. 08/729,602
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 to
26, all the claims in the application.
The claims on appeal are drawn to a gaming machine
(claims 1 to 18 and 20 to 26) and a method of reducing fills
in a gaming machine (claim 19). They are reproduced in the
appendix of appellants’ brief.
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Wahlberg 3,397,763 Aug. 20, 1968
Harlick 4,636,951 Jan. 13, 1987
Dabrowski (Dabrowski ‘728) 5,544,728 Aug. 13, 1996
Dabrowksi (Dabrowski ‘696) 5,635,696 Jun. 3,
1997
(filed Jun. 22, 1993)
Legras et al. (Legras) 5,676,231 Oct. 14, 1997
(filed Jan. 11, 1996)
Gauselmann 3,727,927 Mar. 2,
1989 2
(German Application)
The appealed claims stand finally rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as unpatentable over the following combinations of
references:
(1) Claims 1 to 12 and 20 to 25, Legras in view of Wahlberg;
2A copy of a translation of this document, prepared by
the PTO, is enclosed herewith.
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