Appeal 2006-3079
Application 10/708,033
letters, synonyms, antonyms, metaphors, or of any
other type.
(Calhoun, col. 6, ll. 37-43.)
FF6. The opposing players then indicate whether, in their judgment, the
player who formed the chosen sentence did so “in an interesting, creative,
and/or entertaining way” by using the thumbs-up or thumbs-down card. If a
majority of the opposing players display a thumbs-up card to indicate a
favorable response, the player who formed the chosen sentence scores the
number of points indicated by the value indicia for the chosen sentence.
(Calhoun, col. 7, ll. 25-36.) In an alternate embodiment, rating cards or
scoring means 27 may be used in lieu of the thumbs-up and thumbs-down
cards (Calhoun, col. 8, ll. 17-24).
FF7. Calhoun gives examples of relationships between the sentences 12 on
the sentence card 10 illustrated in Fig. 1 and the pictures 16 on the picture
card 14 (Calhoun, col. 6, l. 50 to col. 7, l. 24). One such relationship
between King Neptune 16a on the picture card 14 and the word “King” or
the word “God” in sentence 12a on sentence card 10 is that “King Neptune
was both King of the sea as well as a God in mythology” (Calhoun, col. 6,
ll. 50-55).
FF8. The ordinary and customary meaning of “story” is “the telling of a
happening or connected series of happenings, whether true or fictitious”
(Webster's New World Dictionary 1405 (David B. Guralnik ed., 2nd Coll.
Ed., Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1984)). The types of relationships described by
Calhoun (FF7) are stories, as that term is ordinarily and customarily used.
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