Appeal 2006-3079
Application 10/708,033
FF4. The ordinary and customary usage of the term “suit” within the
context of playing cards is “a group of similar things forming a set or series;
specific., any of the four sets of thirteen playing cards each (spades, clubs,
hearts, and diamonds) that together make up a pack” (Webster's New World
Dictionary 1424 (David B. Guralnik ed., 2nd Coll. Ed., Simon & Schuster,
Inc. 1984)).
FF5. Calhoun discloses a card game utilizing cards including sentence
cards 10, picture cards 14, and thumbs-up and thumbs-down scoring cards
30, 33 (Calhoun, col. 3, ll. 32-41). In playing the game, each player receives
one sentence card 10, a plurality of picture cards 14, a sentence guide or
display means 17, one thumbs-up card 30, and one thumbs-down card 33.
Each sentence card 10 has a plurality of sentences 12 thereon, with
corresponding value indicia 13 for each sentence. Each picture card 14 has a
plurality of pictorial elements 16 thereon. Essentially, players can discard
and receive additional picture cards 14 until one player is ready to attempt to
form a chosen sentence 12 by relating the pictorial elements 16 on the
picture cards 14 to words in the chosen sentence 12 “in an interesting,
creative, and/or entertaining way.” (Calhoun, col. 5, l. 54 to col. 6, l. 26.)
The player explains to the opposing players how the pictorial elements 16 on
the picture cards 14 relate to the words that make up the chosen sentence 12
on the sentence card 10 (Calhoun, col. 6, ll. 33-37).
The explanation must show to the other players
interesting, creative, and/or entertaining
relationships between the picture elements 16 and
the words that make up the chosen sentence 12 on
sentence card or sentence means 10. These
relationships can be based on rhymes, definitions,
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