Appeal No. 2006-0648 4
Application No. 09/815,181
Attention is directed to the main and reply briefs (filed December 8, 2003 and
October 5, 2004) and answer (mailed September 20, 2004) for the respective positions of
the appellant and examiner regarding the merits of these rejections.
DISCUSSION
Malek, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses “a method . . . for playing a
mixture of Twenty-One, a modified Poker, and Baccarat wherein a player simultaneously
plays against a dealer and other players” (column 1, lines 8-11). The following passage
from the reference summarizes Malek’s playing method:
providing a playing station for each player, said playing station
comprising:
(i) a card playing area having a first horizontal row of two
boxes, a second horizontal row of five boxes, and a third row of two
boxes;
(ii) a bank betting area positioned to one side of the card
playing area and having three positions corresponding to said first, second,
and third rows of boxes in said card playing area; and
(iii) a player betting area positioned to the other side of the
card playing area and having three positions corresponding to said first,
second and third rows of boxes in said card playing area;
each player making a first bet in at least two of said three positions
in said bank betting area of their playing station;
the dealer dealing a first card face-up to each player and one card
face-down to the dealer;
at least one player making a second bet in at least one of said three
positions in said player betting area of his playing station;
the dealer dealing additional cards face-down to each player, the
total number of cards dealt to each player being determined based on the
position of each first bet in the bank betting area of each playing station
and the number of boxes in each row corresponding to said position;
the dealer dealing to himself additional cards equal to the highest
number of cards dealt to any one player;
each player organizing his cards in up to three hands corresponding
to two cards for Twenty-one, five cards for Draw Poker and two cards for
Baccarat, and then assembling those organized cards in each of said first,
second, and third rows of boxes corresponding to each position in the bank
betting area of each player station in which the player has placed a first
bet;
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