Appeal No. 2003-1844 Page 6
Application No. 09/643,130
To support a rejection of a claim under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b), it must be shown that
each element of the claim is found, either expressly described or under principles of
inherency, in a single prior art reference. See Kalman v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 713
F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1026
(1984).
Claims 23, 25, 26 and 28 under appeal are drawn to a video casino game
machine comprising, inter alia, (1) memory means for electronically storing a plurality of
sound lines which are components of a song or ensemble and a plurality of images,
each of which is associated with a corresponding sound line; (2) speaker means for
electronically emitting an audible sound; (3) video display means for electronically
displaying images to a player; (4) touch screen means associated with the video display
means and possessing an array of fields for enabling a player to initiate a game control
command by touching a field; and (5) a microprocessor means operationally connected
to the memory means, the speaker means, the video display means and the touch
screen means, whereby (i) the microprocessor means is adapted to cause images
stored in the memory means to be displayed by the video display means in an array
corresponding to the array of fields of the touch screen means such that an image is
displayed in a corresponding field, and (ii) when a player touches a field the
microprocessor means is adapted to cause a sound line stored in the memory means
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