Appeal No. 2006-1747
Application No. 10/455,666
side. Claims 34 and 38 depend from claim 32 and require an air
blower.6
The examiner argues that “the application as filed does not
provide support for an air blower retained in a drawer in a
combination game table wherein the combination table is a pool
table and a gambling table” (answer, page 3).
The appellant argues (brief, page 11) that the specification
states that “[t]he combination game table 136 may be substituted
for the combination game table 10 in any of the preferred
embodiments 1-4” (page 16). Combination game table 10 has a pool
table on one side and an air powered hockey table on the other
side (specification, page 8), and combination game table 136 has
a gambling table on one side and either a pool table or an air
hockey table on the other side (specification, pages 16-17). The
specification does not disclose an air blower with a combination
pool table and gambling table.
The appellant argues that the disclosure that combination
game table 136 preferably has a pool table opposite the gambling
table but may have another game surface such as an air hockey
surface (specification, page 17) “clearly discloses a combination
6 In the event of further prosecution the examiner and the appellant should
address on the record whether there is adequate antecedent basis for “said air
blower” in claim 38.
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