Appeal No. 2002-0949 Page 2
Application No. 09/514,860
The appellants’ invention relates to electronic video poker games. Claim 1 is
illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:
1. A method of playing a card game comprising:
a) dealing a first hand comprising an initial five cards
all face up;
b) selecting none, one or more of the face up cards
from the first hand as cards to be held;
c) discarding from the first hand the cards that were
not selected to be held and replacing each of those cards
with a face up card;
d) determining the poker hand ranking of the resulting
cards of the first hand
e) redisplaying the initial five cards as a second hand;
f) selecting none, one or more of the face up cards of
the redisplayed cards as cards to be held;
g) discarding from the second hand the cards that
were not selected to be held and replacing each of those
cards with a face up card;
h) determining the poker hand ranking of the resulting
cards of the second hand.
The examiner relied upon the following prior art references in rejecting the
appealed claims:
Kadlic 5,816,915 Oct. 6, 1998
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