Appeal No. 2003-0097
Application 09/360,969
Accordingly, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, rejection of claim 17.
II. The 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency,
each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Soltesz discloses a multi-site gaming system and method for
playing games of chance such as bingo. In general, the system
comprises a central control site 10, a plurality of remote
participation sites and a wide area network (WAN) 3 linking the
central and participation sites. The central control site
includes a PC computer 1, a display screen 11, an automated bingo
machine 16 and a video system 18, and each participation site
comprises a PC computer 5 and a display screen 12. As described
by Soltesz,
[p]rior to the event all participants log onto the
system at least an hour prior to the game. Bingo cards
for the night are sold and the cash totals from each
participation site are sent to the central control at
the central site by the WAN 3. Alternatively, totals
can be called in by a telephone land line to the
central site from the participation sites. A pregame
screen drawing is attached to show a typical pre-bingo
event on the computers 1 and 5 connected to the WAN 3.
The screen shows the date, the time remaining until the
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