Appeal No. 2004-0365 Page 4
Application No. 10/105,505
when one or more of the game pieces reach a project
closedown portion of the game board;
a first die having a plurality of sides with numbers
thereon, wherein the first die may be rolled in order to
indicate a number of spaces to be moved by a selected one
of the game pieces; and
a second die having a plurality of sides with numbers
thereon, wherein the second die may be rolled in order to
indicate a cost value associated with one or more of the
tasks.
Purlia discloses a board game comprising a game board 10 having a plurality of
markings thereon, including an array of lines that form, inter alia, manufacturing plant
spaces denoted “MFG. PLANT,” a chance device in the form of a spinner or double
roulette wheel having two grooves with a ball in each groove, and a plurality of search
cards. The numbers on the sections of the inner groove of the roulette wheel indicate
the number of spaces to be moved and the dollar amounts on the sections of the outer
groove indicate amounts of money to be paid, to purchase a manufacturing plant for
example, or transferred between players under certain circumstances as determined by
the rules of the game. The examiner’s position is that the manufacturing plant sections
are “indicia representing a plurality of tasks that collectively form a plurality of
deliverables” as called for in claim 1. As support for this position, the examiner points
to the disclosure in column 9, lines 16-20, of Purlia, which states that
[w]hen a player lands on a manufacturing plant section, that
is, upon the completion of any move, he may buy that
manufacturing plant. The purchase price is determined by
spinning the wheel and is indicated on the outer wheel, that
is, in the angular section of outer groove 99 in which ball 101
comes to rest. If the ball lands on a section marked No
Deal, the player cannot buy the plant at that time. If the
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