Appeal No. 2004-2334
Application No. 09/888,145
Mueller teaches all limitations of these claims except
that it does not teach perforation on strips for
separation of cards. Reynolds teaches perforation on
strips for card separation. In order to detach cards
from the strip, it would have been obvious to use
perforation. One of ordinary skill in the art at the
time the invention was made would have used perforation
for easy separation of cards from the strip.
Like appellant (brief, pages 9-10), we find no teaching,
suggestion or incentive for combining the applied references in
the manner urged by the examiner; that is, no reason or
motivation for attempting to provide perforations of the type
claimed by appellant in the paper strips of Mueller's cookie game
wherein a segment of a written composition is contained on each
of the paper strips. Except for hindsight afforded by first
having read appellant's application, the examiner has no factual
basis whatsoever for providing the paper strips in Mueller with a
hand unit of cards, where each of the cards bears one
predetermined suit and denomination, and then further providing a
perforation between each of the cards on the paper strip to allow
selective separation of each of the cards from the strip. For
these reasons, we will not sustain the examiner's rejection of
claims 2, 7, 9 and 12.
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