Appeal 2006-2448
Application 10/700,425
1. A method of creating a graphical depiction of a person's life, comprising
the steps of:
providing a first plurality of puzzle pieces that represent different major life
events, including birthday, graduation day and wedding day that may, or may not,
occur in a person's life; and
joining puzzle pieces together that correspond to events that have actually
occurred in a person's life to create a puzzle assembly that is a graphical depiction
of life events of that person.
THE REFERENCES
Thompson US 723,425 Mar. 24, 1903
Guill US 4,417,732 Nov. 29, 1983
Collins US 6,619,661 B1 Sep. 16, 2003
Hall US 6,708,973 B1 Mar. 23, 2004
(filed Feb. 20, 2003)
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows: claims 1-4
and 6-8 over Thompson; claims 11-13 over Collins; claims 11 and 12 over Guill;
and claim 13 over Guill in view of Hall.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejections.
Rejection over Thompson
Thompson discloses a puzzle comprising 1) one or more pieces having a
picture thereon, and pieces that are adjacent to those pieces and identify the
adjacent picture, and 2) pieces having thereon the result of a mathematical
computation, and pieces that are adjacent to those pieces and show one or more
mathematical computations that produce the adjacent result (p. 1, ll. 49-63; p. 1,
l. 93 – p. 2, l. 26).
The Appellant argues that “[t]he Thompson patent does not disclose puzzle
pieces that correspond to different commonly occurring life events, including
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