Appeal No. 1999-1722
Application No. 08/729,602
or coins, i.e., there is no disclosure that bills or coins (if
accepted) are dispensed. We therefore surmise that any payout
from the Legras machine would be in the form of credits.
Wahlberg discloses a vending machine in which not only
payment may be made by bills and/or coins, but also change can
be returned in the form of bills and/or coins; this use of the
deposited money to provide change gives the advantage of
saving the replenishing of the money supply in the machine
(col. 1, lines 38 to 43). We do not agree with the examiner,
however, that it would have been obvious to apply this
teaching of Wahlberg to the Legras gaming machine. In the
first place, as discussed above, there is no disclosure of
dispensing any currency, bills or coins, from the Legras
machine, so that the advantage disclosed by Wahlberg of
dispensing bills and coins, rather than just coins, would not
apply to Legras. Moreover, in the Wahlberg machine, each
denomination of bill (one, five and ten dollars) must be
deposited in a separate slot 15 (see Fig. 1 and col. 6, lines
11 to 15). We do not consider that one of ordinary skill
would have found it obvious to incorporate such an arrangement
in the Legras apparatus, considering that Legras only
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