Appeal No. 2002-1028
Application No. 09/208,430
appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we
will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 16.
As admitted by the examiner (Answer, pages 4-5), Tashiro
discloses that the players decide at the beginning of a game
whether or not to enter a multi-player game, and all game
information is transmitted to all of the participating machines.
Thus, Tashiro fails to disclose accepting a mid-game entry
request, creating and transferring reconstruction information of
a first game space, and reconstructing the first game space on a
newly participating game machine.
Logg teaches a multi-player system where players may enter a
game in the middle. However, as pointed out by appellants
(Brief, page 11), the game is played on a single machine. Logg
adds characters to the game for mid-entry players. Since Logg
uses a single machine, Logg has no need for, and thus fails to
disclose, creating reconstruction information, transferring it,
and reconstructing the first game space in a newly participating
game machine. Since neither Tashiro nor Logg discloses creating,
transferring, and reconstructing, the combination of the two
references fails to disclose means for or information for
creating, transferring, and reconstructing, as recited in
independent claims 1 and 12.
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