Appeal No. 1999-1722
Application No. 08/729,602
Rejection (1)
The basis of this rejection is stated on page 4 of the
examiner’s answer as follows:
Legras et al disclose a video poker machine
which requires making decisions based upon the
display and comparing the outcome with a
paytable and dispensing an award based upon the
outcome of the game and all the other features
of the applicants’ claimed invention except the
means to dispense bills. Wahlberg shows a
device that accepts coins and bills and
dispenses both coins and bills so that the
machine is not quickly depleted of coins. It
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill
in the art in view of the showing and teaching
of Wahlberg to provide the device of Legras et
al with means to dispense bills so the coins are
not as quickly depleted.
After fully considering the record in light of the
arguments presented in appellants’ brief and reply brief, and
in the examiner’s answer, we conclude that rejection (1) is
not well taken. Legras discloses a gaming machine in which
bills are accepted through slot 24 and stored in box 48.
Although Legras discloses, as the examiner points out, that if
the indicia on the reels line up in a predetermined pattern,
"the player is paid a jackpot" (col. 4, lines 51 and 52), the
Legras patent does not disclose that the machine accepts
coins, nor does it disclose that there is any payout in bills
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