Re: Re: game idea = copyright or patent?

From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:05:15 -0400


On 6/14/05, Gregory Aharonian <srctran[_at_]world.std.com> wrote: 

>

> Well, patents are psuedo-statutes, so any review of groups of patents
> would be of interest. To date, there are over 12,000 patents that
> mention "game" or "games" in the abstract. Some recent titles as
> follows:

For those who take up Gregory's suggestion, a better approach to finding patents covering a specific kind of game is to use classification. As an example, if I want to search for patents relating to board games, I could use the string "CCL/273/236" in the advanced search at http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-adv.htm. This is better than just searching for the words "game" or "games" because there are so many different kinds of games.

http://www.uspto.gov/go/classification/ is a good place to start for searching a specific classification. From there, I obtained "CCL/273/236" from http://www.uspto.gov/go/classification/uspc273/defs273.htm.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>

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