The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 12 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte REX R. CARLSON, RICH SCHNEIDER, SCOTT BOYD and MILES PATCEG ____________ Appeal No. 2001-0258 Application No. 08/821,978 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before McCANDLISH, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, COHEN and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 10-46, which are all of the claims pending in this application. BACKGROUND The appellants' invention relates to a gaming machine which accepts wagers from a player and, more particularly, to a video gaming machine in which a second chance means displayed on the video monitor concomitantly along with a first chance means has aPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007