Appeal No. 2005-1266 8
Application No. 10/227,755
II. The 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection of claim 11 as being
anticipated by Rosi
Rosi discloses a board game having a gangster motif. The
following passage from the reference fairly summarizes the game:
Yet another object of the present invention is to
provide a new gangster board game which includes a game
board [10] having a plurality of playing spaces [11a,
11b] arranged in a pair of [square] paths including an
inner location path [12] and an outer sidewalk path
[13]. The playing spaces forming the inner location
path are designated location playing spaces and the
playing spaces forming the outer sidewalk path are
designated sidewalk playing spaces. Each of the
location playing spaces is assigned a unique game
location and having indicia indicating the unique game
location of the respective location playing spaces.
Each of the sidewalk playing spaces being having unique
playing instructions displayed therein. Each player is
assigned a playing piece [15] and corresponding police
record sheet [16] to each player, a sum of the play
money [17], a contract card [21] and a contract
recording sheet [22]. A plurality of sequential player
turns are performed comprising rolling a die [18],
moving the playing piece of the player a number of
sidewalk playing spaces corresponding to the value
rolled on the normal die, performing the instructions
displayed on the sidewalk space on which the playing
piece terminates its move on, performing the
instructions of the steps of the contact card of the
player, and recording completion of the performed
instructions of the steps of the contract card of the
player. The first player to complete performance of
all of the instructions of all of the steps of their
contract card is declared the winner [column 3, lines
30 through 54].
Rosi also teaches that in attempting to complete a contract
card, “[t]he contracts will have you moving all over the board in
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