Joint Appendix One

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Case 2:10-cv-07678-JFW-DTB Document 57-4 Filed 09/28/11 Page 29 of 38
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I_rTERVIEW SUMMARY
Applicant thanks the Examiner for the courtesies extended to Applicant's
representative during a recent telephonic interview. During that interview, the Examiner
explained his view of Rowe and how that reference was being applied in the current
rejection. Specifically, the Examiner indicated that in his view Rowe disclosed a gaming
machine having a printer. Furthermore, the Examiner contended that Rowe further
disclosed that the gaming machine had a first communications lLuk to a first network which
is arranged to carry out a credit card authorization and a second communications link to a
player tracking network for issuing awards. In the Examiner's view, Applicant's "main
communication port" read on the first communication link to the financial network and
Applicant's "auxiliary communication port" read on the second link to a player tracking
network.
Applicant's representative submitted that Rowe may have disclosed a first
and a second logical communication link. However, from the printer's perspective, the
communication links were the same. That is, the gaming machine was coupled by the
communication links and not the printer. Therefore, in order to print award receipts issued
by the player tracking network or a value receipt issued by the financial network, the
printer received the receipts from the game controller and not directly from either the
player tracking network or the financial network. In the present invention, Applicant's
main communication port couples a promotional gaming printer to a gaming machine
controller and a separate au_iary communication port couples the gaming promotional
printer to a promotional controller. This feature aUows the gaming promotionat printer to
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Nanoptix' Summary Judgment Exhibit No. 3
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Nh_N05057