Another Fun Patent

Lawsuit Board Game (U.S. Patent Number 6,805,351) issued last week.

The abstract describes the invention:

An educational, legal based game and method for players, has a board with spaces on which the players land. The spaces instruct players to bring a simulated lawsuit or to act as a result of a simulated circumstance associated with the legal profession. A fund of play money is provided and a random generator determines the number spaces the players will move. Lawsuit cards are part of the game, each having a fact pattern and a positive or negative monetary result. At a player’s option, an appeal card can be selected but then the player must comply with the monetary result which may be higher or lower on the appeal card. A player landing on one of the other type of spaces acts in accordance with the simulated circumstance of that space.

Combine this game with the Edison & Co. Invention Board Game, and you’ll see just how fun patent law can be.

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Posted by Douglas Sorocco, October 29, 2004 at 2:25 pm
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