Appeal No. 1998-2848
Application 08/398,862
entering a multiroom virtual environment where each
room in said environment requires a specific set of ETCs
to complete an ETC collection, each ETC corresponding to
a disassociated computer code segment and having an
electronic format that supports card scarcity and card
authenticity;
finding a missing ETC;
completing said set; and
reward when said set is completed.
21. A method for implementing a trading card metaphor,
comprising the steps of:
a dissociating a 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.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art reference:
Smith et al. (Smith) 5,533,124 July 2, 1996
(filed December 7, 1994)
Claims 1-39 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being
directed to nonstatutory subject matter.
Claims 1-39 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
being anticipated by Smith.
We refer to the Office Action (Paper No. 10) entered
May 21, 1997, and the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 17) (pages
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