Ex Parte Mitchell et al - Page 5



             Appeal 2007-1928                                                                                  
             Application 10/163,282                                                                            
                   3.  Walker discloses an African-American trivia game in which tokens or                     
             chips are used as games pieces.  The token chips can be made of material such as                  
             paper, plastic or metal and can be luminescent, although metal is preferred.                      
             Further, Walker discloses a card with an image of a person on one side, as seen in                
             Figure 5, and a descriptive text on the opposite side.  Presumably, these cards are               
             less than 4 x 4 inches square.                                                                    
                   4.  Jaffe discloses a mathematical board game which uses markers or chips                   
             370 and random number generating dies as shown in Figure 3.  The chips are                        
             colored coded and can be preferably manufactured of translucent plastic so that the               
             game board shows through the translucent chips. The dies are three-dimensional                    
             objects customized with indicia such as prime numbers.                                            
                   5.  Viveiros discloses a poster game which is variation on the Pin the Tail on              
             the Donkey game known by children for many years.  In this case, hat tokens 23                    
             are provided with perforated outlines so that they can be separated from the                      
             support base and used in game play.                                                               
                   6.  Logan discloses a method of keeping track of dietary consumption.                       
             Figure 1 discloses a chart or board 1 that sticks to a refrigerator magnetically or by            
             use of adhesive.  A number of tokens are provided which removeably fasten to the                  
             game board, once again via adhesive or magnetic material.                                         
                   7.  Finally, Sterr ‘773 discloses dye cut confetti wherein the angular shape of             
             the confetti gives a unique aerodynamic pattern of flight.  Sterr discloses in column             
             7, ll. 10-21, that confetti is desirably less than four square inches.                            



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