Appeal No. 2006-0811
Application No. 10/323,510
16. A method of playing a game including a plurality of
game pieces having game piece indicia thereon, and at least one
game board having game board indicia thereon which corresponds
to at least of some of said game indicia, said method
comprising:
a. selecting a game piece from said plurality of
game pieces;
b. selecting a game board;
c. checking to determine if a match exists between
said game piece indicia on said selected game piece and said
game board indicia; and
d. if a match is found to exist, tracing within a
tracing area on said game board something that corresponds to
said indicia.
THE REFERENCES
Corday 4,226,420 Oct. 7, 1980
Hankins 4,306,868 Dec. 22, 1981
McAllister 4,952,153 Aug. 28, 1990
Adkison 5,626,477 May 6, 1997
Diagram Group, “The Way to Play” (Bingo) 274-75 (Paddington
Press, date stamped Mar. 15, 1976).
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected as follows: claims 1-4, 9-11, 14
and 15 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Adkison; claims
1, 11 and 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Bingo;
claims 5, 6, 12 and 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over
Adkison in view of Hankins; claim 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
obvious over Adkison in view of McAllister; claim 8 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Adkison in view of Corday;
claims 21, 24 and 25 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Bingo
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