Judicial, Legislative, Or Election Process Patents (Class 273/279)
  • Publication number: 20110136559
    Abstract: A process and gaming method for determining whether individuals and leaders are liberal, conservative, or evil (LCE), in their thinking, actions, approach to governing, and life in general. The process is designed to quantify and rate individuals' political persuasion. The invention takes a straight line political scale and bends it into a circular spectrum to express politico positions. This invention uses this spectrum to create a parlor board game or a web based quantitative process/game which can allow live interactive participation. All individuals can be ranked within the liberal, conservative, and evil scale or Politico Spectrum created by this invention. An individual's motives and results must be considered when they fall into the Evil category. The process uses a series of questions, answers, and tests, and the plurality of the responses quantifiably ranks the individual participants within the spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventor: Glyn Mason Ottofy
  • Patent number: 7303398
    Abstract: An instructional board of computer game defines a path of movement for a number of game “pieces” that are moved along the path a number of “stops” as determined by a die or other random device. Associated with the stops and color or otherwise visually coded therewith are sets of cards bearing the questions all relating to a subject of instruction. Game rules call for a player or team whose piece lands on a stop “owned” by another player or team to answer a question printed on the face of the card of the other player. A correct answer earns points for the answering player or team as well as for the team or player that poses the question. “Free” stops imprinted on the board or programmed into the computer display are locations where the game rules call for a player whose piece lands there to obtain points without answering a question because the “free” stop is associated with worthwhile activity the player is deemed to have participated in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Inventor: Susan Lynn Soto
  • Patent number: 6861559
    Abstract: A process is described for producing one or more substituted iminoamines, in particular ?-unsaturated ?-iminoamines, in a single reaction comprising reacting one or more primary amines, alkynes, and isonitriles in the presence of a transition metal catalytic complex, preferably a titanium metal catalytic complex such as (N,N-di(pyrrolyl-?-methyl)-N-methylamine)titanium (Ti(NMe2)2(dpma)), under reaction conditions effective for 3-component coupling of the primary amines, alkynes, and isonitriles to produce one or more of the substituted iminoamines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventor: Aaron L. Odom
  • Patent number: 6805351
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Inventor: Tina Rae Eskreis Nelson
  • Patent number: 6659866
    Abstract: A gaming table in which the outcome of the game is determined manually, and in which players place bets electronically and wins or losses are calculated electronically. The gaming system is applicable to any suitable game including roulette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignees: Stargames Corporation Pty Ltd., Crown Limited
    Inventors: Brian Frost, Jason Choo, Jim Williams, Andrew MacDonald, Dougall Alasdair McBurnie, Peter James Herring
  • Publication number: 20030218302
    Abstract: An educational game comprises a planar game board having printed thereon a plurality of images of postal stamps. At least a portion of the postal stamps bear a number. The educational game further comprises a plurality of player placeholders. Each placeholder is configured to be positioned on the numbered stamps. When a player's placeholder is positioned on a numbered stamp, the number corresponds to the player's score. The educational game further comprises a plurality of question cards. A first portion of the question cards contain questions of reduced difficulty having associated therewith a first quantity of points. A second portion of the question cards contain questions of intermediate difficulty having associated therewith a second quantity of points. A third portion of the question cards contain questions of increased difficulty having associated therewith a third quantity of points. A portion of the question cards contain questions having subjective answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventor: Christine Nelson
  • Patent number: 6634642
    Abstract: An immigration board game and method for playing it where the players live through the difficulties typically associated with immigrants as they adjust to the American way of life and seek the American dream. The game is played on a board with a predetermined number of contiguously disposed spaces over which each player's token advances. Initially, each player is assigned a unique legal status through aleatory means. Each space is associated with instructions providing for penalties and awards. Additionally, some of these spaces direct the players to one or more sets of cards with additional awards and non-pecuniary penalties directed to affect the legal status of the player. Choices are given throughout the game for the players to choose sets with or without pecuniary rewards depending on whether the player wants to take his/her chances with immediate economic rewards or improvements in his/her legal status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Teivy Development Corp.
    Inventor: Teresa de Jesus Leon
  • Patent number: 6588757
    Abstract: The card game of the present invention uses at least one or preferably one standard deck of 52 cards plus at least one or preferably four Jokers. Each Player, along with the Banker, is dealt seven cards, and plays against a Banker. In any given hand, Players have the option to make from one and up to eight different types of bets on the value of their own hand. A Player's wager wins if the Player's best five-card poker hand selected from the Player's seven dealt cards is one of the winning hands of the bet the Player makes, and the Player's wager loses if the Player's best five-card poker hand is neither one of the winning hands nor one of the pushing hand(s). If a Player makes more than one bet, the Player may win all bets made, the Player may win some bet(s) and lose the other(s), or the Player may lose all bets made. The eight types of bets do not require skill; Players win their wagers based on the strength of the hands as dealt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Inventor: Henry Tien Lo
  • Patent number: 6428661
    Abstract: This plating apparatus 4 includes a plating bath 15 filled up with a plating solution, a first O ring 17 arranged on a top part of the plating bath 15, for electrical connection with an underlying electrode 18 formed on a wafer 2, a second O ring 20 arranged on the top part of the plating bath 15 so as to prevent the plating solution in the plating bath 15 from contact with the first O ring 17, an anode plate 24 disposed in the plating bath 15 and an ultrasonic oscillating element 26 arranged in the plating bath 15. The plating apparatus 4 is capable of forming a plating film having an uniform thickness on the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Hongo
  • Patent number: 6416055
    Abstract: A board game and method for teaching negotiation, advocacy and judicial decision-making skills to players, in which a board is providing having spaces upon which players may randomly, sequentially land. One of the players is determined at the outset to be the judge. The remaining players move about the board. The spaces conform to a plurality of categories, and pre-mixed questions, typically contained on cards, are sequentially read each time someone lands upon the space conforming to that category. The player who lands must answer the question; the other players must determine whether to object. Where an objection occurs, the players are placed in a debaters box, for a debating period. During that period, as determined by the judge, the players debate the issue and the judge, who provides full judicial making authority for the game, determines the protocol and the outcome of the debate. Where the outcome is a success to the objecting player, a letter is forfeited by the non-objecting player to him.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Inventor: Kenneth Shaw, Sr.
  • Patent number: 5769715
    Abstract: Entertaining political games in either parlor game or PC computer game format are playable by one to six players from a basic set of game accessories. Typically each play is initiated by a roll of three differently colored dice, and ten plays for each player constitute a game. A set of game cards provide a variety of political issues involving different sectors of public interest upon which the players vote yes, no or abstain. Corresponding answers provide scores and feedback. Some issues may be politically controversial in nature, and in some instances include constitutional or ethical circumstances that may result in loss of the game either by impeachment for unethical behavior or conflict of interest votes or by voting contrary to provisions of the Constitution. The objective of the various games associated with a standard set of game pieces is to direct voter's attention to the perspective of issues from various points of view and public interest and to hone voting judgment and skill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Inventor: Laurence R. Brown
  • Patent number: 5624120
    Abstract: The present invention entails a game and a game board apparatus. The game board apparatus comprises a game board, a pack of fifty-one playing cards and two normal six-sided dice. The game board is ruled into eighty-eight squares made up of eleven columns labelled A to K and eight rows within the confines of which fifty-one squares represent America's fifty states and the District of Columbia. The states, this term to include the District of Columbia whenever not specified, are so arranged that the boundaries approximate the map of the United States. On each of the fifty squares is written the name of the state and the state's electoral vote. The fifty-one cards have the same information as on the squares, but in addition also display the flag of the state, the letter indicating the state's location, that is any of the letters A through K, and the state's Trump Number, which is an indication of the relative ease with which that state can be won.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Inventor: Emmanuel A. Frank-Opigo
  • Patent number: 5374066
    Abstract: An educational and recreational game and method of playing thereof emulates the presidential election process in the U.S.A. Each of the 51 voting jurisdictions is assigned a representative number of electoral votes. Voting for each state follows an ordered path starting in Maine and following a serpentine path through and including 48 additional states and the District of Columbia and concluding in California. Each player or team of players, representing a major political party, Democratic, Republican, Independent, rolls a dice having faces marked with differing percentages of the popular vote to determine a win or loss of the popular and electoral votes for each state. Play continues until one team amasses at least 270 electoral votes necessary to win the election and place its candidate in the White House.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Inventor: Abdulkadir H. Ali
  • Patent number: 5288076
    Abstract: The present invention entails a game and game board apparatus. The game board apparatus includes a map of the United States with each individual state comprising a puzzle piece and wherein there is inscribed on the game board apparatus the number of electoral college votes controlled by each respective state. In addition, the game apparatus includes a series of state playing cards with each state playing card identifying a state, the number of electoral college votes of that state, a list of presidents produced by that state and other state information. The object of the game is to accumulate the most electoral college votes. In order to collect electoral votes the basic thrust of the game entails accumulating a selected number of contiguous or so-called isolated states and once such has been accumulated then the electoral college votes of those contiguous states or isolated state or states are acquired by the player who has accumulated the contiguous states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: The Presidents Group
    Inventors: Jerry F. Jackson, Bert N. Adams, Roald H. Sorensen
  • Patent number: 4509922
    Abstract: A legal educational game and method of teaching legal subject matter wherein said game essentially comprises a legal game board, a plurality of sets of color-coded cards containing legal terminology, and printed instructional means whereby a plurality of participants pull and read said color-coded cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Inventor: Carl W. Battle
  • Patent number: 4085938
    Abstract: A game apparatus for two players comprises a board having located thereon a map of the United States divided into the 50 respective states, and a deck of 50 playing cards, each being identified with one of the states. Indicated on each of the cards are three win alternatives, two lose alternatives, and one draw alternative which are listed randomly along with respective associated identifying numerals ranging from one to six, for determining the outcome of the play of that card upon the rolling of a die. Two sets of markers, each set having a contrasting color and each having 50 individual markers shaped to fit over respective ones of the states outlined on the board, are used to indicate the winner of each state played. In play, the deck of cards is stacked in random order and the players alternately roll the die in turn to determine which numerical alternative on the topmost card will be followed on each turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Inventor: James H. Bean, Jr.