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        Appeal No. 2006-3019                                            
        Application No. 09/735,586                                      

                               Invention                                
            Appellant’s invention relates to an electronic              
        hardware and software architecture for electronic               
        trading cards described by the appellant as follows:            
            The invention includes an electronic hardware and           
        software architecture for electronic trading cards              
        (ETCs).  The invention has a number of components that          
        function together as a system that support making               
        electronic trading cards, trading electronic trading            
        cards, activities (such as game playing) with                   
        electronic trading cards, and collecting electronic             
        trading cards.                                                  

            Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention          
        and is reproduced as follows:                                   
            1. A system for the exchange of digital content,            
        comprising:                                                     
            a disassociated computer code segment embodied in a         
        tangible medium;                                                
            said computer code segment expressing said digital          
        content;                                                        
            said computer code segment further embodied in an           
        electronic format that supports content scarcity and            

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