Appeal No. 2006-1772
Application No. 09/993,359
Invention
The invention relates to a gaming machine, which allows a player to play a dice
type game having the attributes of the game Bunco. See page 2 of appellants’
specification.
Claim 109 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
109. A gaming machine for playing a Bunco-type dice game comprising:
a video display device;
a cpu having a program operating a dice game;
a wager input mechanism which registers a wager placed by a player;
said program establishing a set of differing gameplay dice elements, including a
subset of at least one match point at the start of the game, each said match
point having a match indicium for potential matching with a subsequent
toss of the dice elements;
said program establishing and displaying a random toss of a plurality of dice
elements at each stage of play, and determining for each die element
tossed at a stage of play whether its randomly selected indicium matches
said match indicium of said match point; and
a payout mechanism providing an award according to a predetermined first
paytable for each match on a toss.
References
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Edgeworth 2,125,236 Jul. 26, 1938
Matsumoto 5,263,715 Nov. 23, 1993
Falciglia 5,647,798 Jul. 15, 1997
Dice Gamers Resources –Bunco Rules (http://www.buncogame.com/brules.shtml,
January 2000).
Rejections at Issue
Claims 109 through 115 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Matsumoto in view of Edgeworth and Bunco Rules. The examiner’s
rejection is set forth on pages 3 through 5 of the answer. Claims 113 and 114 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Matsumoto in view of
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