Appeal No. 1998-2848
Application 08/398,862
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the rejection of claims 1-39.
We affirm, but enter new grounds of rejection.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a system and
method for implementing a trading card metaphor in an
electronic trading card (ETC). ETCs are segments of computer
code that have a data format as shown in Figure 1. ETC
products may be of various types, such as clue cards, code
cards, sports cards, and character cards (Figure 4). ETCs may
be made, traded, used in activities (such as game playing), or
may be collected like paper trading cards (specification,
pages 8-9; Figure 6).
Claims 1, 16, and 21 are reproduced below.
1. A system for the implementation of a trading card
metaphor, comprising:
a disassociated computer program, consisting of a
plurality of electronic trading cards (ETCs), each ETC
corresponding to a disassociated computer code segment
and having an electronic format that supports card
scarcity and card authenticity.
16. A method for implementing a trading card metaphor in
an electronic trading card (ETC), comprising the steps
of:
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