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> Board game rules fall under patents Please supply evidence. All links in your comment relate to a patent to an invention where lasers are an essential part o

> Board game rules fall under patents Please supply evidence. All links in your comment relate to a patent to an invention where lasers are an essential part of the claims. I'm not convinced that rules alone would be patentable subject matter.

shagie 3y ago
https://www.upcounsel.com/board-game-patents https://www.upcounsel.com/board-game-patents https://patentpc.com/blog/example-of-how-a-board-game-is-patented https://patentpc.com/blog/example-of-how-a-board-game-is-pat... https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/493249/mythbusting-game-design-and-copyright-trademarks-a https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/493249/mythbusting-game-des... https://www.theiplawblog.com/2019/04/articles/intellectual-property-litigation/are-rules-for-playing-a-game-patentable/ https://www.theiplawblog.com/2019/04/articles/intellectual-p... http://www.gamecabinet.com/info/PatentSearch.html http://www.gamecabinet.com/info/PatentSearch.html https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/93654/blue-and-gray-patent-info-pdf https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/93654/blue-and-gray-paten... (Blue and Gray) - this particular one is well known because Sid Sackson went trawling through patents and found it and wrote about it. From https://archive.org/details/gamutofgames0000sack/page/9/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/gamutofgames0000sack/page/9/mode... > THE FILES OF PATENTS that have been granted are a fruitful hunting ground for forgotten games, although going through these files, as anyone who has ever been involved in a patent search well knows, is a time consuming job. Often the patented games are downright silly, such as a set of dominos made of rubber so that they can double as ink erasers (No. 729,489) or a sliding block puzzle with edible pieces so that a player who despairs of a solution can find consolation in gratifying his stomach (No. 1,274,294). Often the patents are repetitious: There are over a hundred variations of the well-known checkerboard and over a thousand different baseball games. > But often the patented games are a fascinating reflection of their time: races to the North Pole, war games to capture the Kaiser, automobile games, in the infancy of the automobile, and radio games for the crystal-set fanatic. https://patents.google.com/patent/US2026082A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US2026082A/en (Monopoly) https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en (Magic The Gathering) https://patents.google.com/patent/US6352262B1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US6352262B1/en (Icehouse)
- brlewis 3y ago
  > https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en (Magic The Gathering) Thank you. I concede, this one is proof that an application that's essentially board game rules can be accepted. Whether rules not tied to a particular machine should be accepted is debatable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-or-transformation_test#Is_satisfying_the_test_a_necessary_condition_for_patent-eligibility,_a_sufficient_condition,_both_or_neither https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-or-transformation_test...?

shagie 3y ago

https://www.upcounsel.com/board-game-patents https://www.upcounsel.com/board-game-patents https://patentpc.com/blog/example-of-how-a-board-game-is-patented https://patentpc.com/blog/example-of-how-a-board-game-is-pat... https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/493249/mythbusting-game-design-and-copyright-trademarks-a https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/493249/mythbusting-game-des... https://www.theiplawblog.com/2019/04/articles/intellectual-property-litigation/are-rules-for-playing-a-game-patentable/ https://www.theiplawblog.com/2019/04/articles/intellectual-p... http://www.gamecabinet.com/info/PatentSearch.html http://www.gamecabinet.com/info/PatentSearch.html https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/93654/blue-and-gray-patent-info-pdf https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/93654/blue-and-gray-paten... (Blue and Gray) - this particular one is well known because Sid Sackson went trawling through patents and found it and wrote about it. From https://archive.org/details/gamutofgames0000sack/page/9/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/gamutofgames0000sack/page/9/mode... > THE FILES OF PATENTS that have been granted are a fruitful hunting ground for forgotten games, although going through these files, as anyone who has ever been involved in a patent search well knows, is a time consuming job. Often the patented games are downright silly, such as a set of dominos made of rubber so that they can double as ink erasers (No. 729,489) or a sliding block puzzle with edible pieces so that a player who despairs of a solution can find consolation in gratifying his stomach (No. 1,274,294). Often the patents are repetitious: There are over a hundred variations of the well-known checkerboard and over a thousand different baseball games. > But often the patented games are a fascinating reflection of their time: races to the North Pole, war games to capture the Kaiser, automobile games, in the infancy of the automobile, and radio games for the crystal-set fanatic. https://patents.google.com/patent/US2026082A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US2026082A/en (Monopoly) https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en (Magic The Gathering) https://patents.google.com/patent/US6352262B1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US6352262B1/en (Icehouse)

brlewis 3y ago
> https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en (Magic The Gathering) Thank you. I concede, this one is proof that an application that's essentially board game rules can be accepted. Whether rules not tied to a particular machine should be accepted is debatable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-or-transformation_test#Is_satisfying_the_test_a_necessary_condition_for_patent-eligibility,_a_sufficient_condition,_both_or_neither https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-or-transformation_test...?