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Class 273/257 - Judicial, legislative, or election process


Subclass of Class 273 - Amusement devices: games
Definition: Games wherein at least one step in a judicial, legislative,
No. of patents: 31
Last issue date: 04/21/2009


NumberTitleIssue Date
7520508Board game apparatus for teaching electoral college, historical and geographical concepts
A game includes a board displaying a map showing cartographic outlines of the U.S. states, and optionally each state's capital. The game includes at least one deck of cards including a respective card for each state shown on the game board. Geography playing cards i...
04/21/2009
7314217Presidential election game
A political campaign game board has a play surface including a map of the United States with each state having indicia indicating the number of electoral votes assigned to each state, a plurality of spaces forming a play path that surrounds the map, a location for c...
01/01/2008
7303398Educational game
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 ...
12/04/2007
6962336Credit card debt management board game
A board game comprising a board with a path having spaces thereon, wherein the path is navigated around the board by rolling dice, with the purpose being to teach the management and elimination of credit card debt. The game incorporates real life situations requirin...
11/08/2005
6805351Lawsuit board game
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 pla...
10/19/2004
6634642Immigration and money board game
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 predeterm...
10/21/2003
6572110Educational awareness game
A game for simulating possible experiences of a player using drugs or alcohol is disclosed. The game includes a fast path having a plurality of playing spaces and a slow path parallel to the fast path and having a plurality of spaces. There are at least t...
06/03/2003
6416055Board game and method for teaching fundamental aspects of advocacy, debating, negotiation and judicial decision-making
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...
07/09/2002
6302397Election process card game, teaching aid and method for playing the same
An election box card game, method for playing the same and teacher's aid are described. The game includes a number of numerical value cards which indicate different numbers of votes and special cards providing for the exchange of cards, false vote cards o...
10/16/2001
5660390Election game apparatus based on multiple player's choice
A game apparatus simulating the Presidential Electoral campaign which includes a game board that comprises special paths serving for the movement of the players' tokens. These paths represent a simplified scheme of the U.S. interstate highways and airline...
08/26/1997
5190293Election game apparatus
A game apparatus includes a game board formed with a perimeter of spaces to include a central space having a puzzle configuration representative of a United States map, with each of the states interfitting relative to the puzzle. Individual players are di...
03/02/1993
5137279Political candidate campaign board game
The board game of the present invention is a political candidate campaign board game, wherein the object of the game is to obtain score points in the form of votes. There are two playing surfaces and two distinctive playing pieces are assigned to each pla...
08/11/1992
4923198Board game of geopolitical and related knowledge
A board game requiring some knowledge of geographical, historical, political, sociological and/or related facts for the successful player is disclosed. The game comprises a game board which includes a map of the United States or other geopolitical area, s...
05/08/1990
4865327Board game
A board game in which players attempt to become President of the United States by accumulating the required amount of electoral votes. Each player has a first game piece to be used in one or more "non-special" sections and a second game piece to be used i...
09/12/1989
4709926Electoral college game
A political campaign game is disclosed herein which is particularly adapted to simulate the conditions of an actual presidential campaign and includes a game board having playing zones which include a first group of popular vote obtaining zones and a seco...
12/01/1987
4706960Fields of law and legal process card and board game apparatus
A combined card and board game consisting of over 205 fields of law, legal categories, including legal lexicon, legal terminology and legal processes involving quetions and/or statements and responses. The game includes a board which consists of four plur...
11/17/1987
4682778Political game utilizing die with interchangeable faces
The game disclosed has a board showing a voting area marked House of Representatives, a voting area marked Senate, a vice-president's voting booth located inside the Senate, and a president's voting booth located between and separate from the House of Rep...
07/28/1987
4643429Educational board game
The present invention provides an educational game for two or more players which is designed to both entertain and educate the players regarding the electoral process of the president of the United States. The game has a game board depicting the map of th...
02/17/1987
4625970Political game
A political game is disclosed having a square or rectangular game board containing a plurality of spaces which are unfavorable, favorable or neutral; a set of three different playing pieces of the same color for each player; a set of drawing cards of one ...
12/02/1986
4299390Election board game with campaign promise markers
A political game is disclosed which includes a game board having a plurality of playing spaces providing a play path for the players. The spaces include a first group which correspond to political subdivisions and a second group which provide play instruc...
11/10/1981
4280703Three dimensional game with political theme
A game for play by two persons which includes a three-colored game board divided into squares wherein three-dimensional play is involved. Combinations of chess and checker moves are employed for the game pieces....
07/28/1981
4216967President election game
A presidential election game in which the fifty states and the District of Columbia are divided into color coordinated zones. The game board has a score tabulation on each state playing space which records the amount of popular votes each player has recei...
08/12/1980
4210336Game with game board and pieces
A game apparatus including a game board and game pieces designed for two players is disclosed. The game board has a circular playing area comprising a plurality of zigzag game paths, each of which begins at the edge of the circle and terminates at the cen...
07/01/1980
4118036President election game
A presidential election game in which the fifty states and the District of Columbia are divided into color coordinated zones with a magnetized score device for each player to record the changing number of popular and/or electoral college votes that each p...
10/03/1978
4092028Board game apparatus
A presidential election game in which the fifty states including the District of Columbia are divided into color coordinated zones with magnetized score means for each player to record the changing number of popular and/or electoral college votes he or sh...
05/30/1978
4068848Professional malpractice board game apparatus
Apparatus for playing an adult game based upon possible legal and business activities and possible experiences of selected professional type persons. Spaces are provided on a board for the movement of symbolic elements representing each professional perso...
01/17/1978
4045031Board game apparatus
A game board has a system of courts where the outcome of lawsuits are determined and a continuous playing path around its edge. Chance devices direct movements of game pieces along the path, and indications on the path direct selection of cards relating t...
08/30/1977
4039192Combined card and board game apparatus
Combined card and board game apparatus is disclosed in the preferred embodiment for simulating the various stages of the legal process of a criminal case. The game apparatus includes a board having marked spaces or areas constituting a path of progression...
08/02/1977
4012045Jurisprudence -educational game
A teaching device and game comprising a game board bearing instructions; marker pieces; dice for determining by lot the advancement and position of the marker pieces; reward indicator members representing "jurors" to be won or lost by each participant who...
03/15/1977
3977680Board game apparatus involving criminal justice
A board game involving the criminal judicial process. The equipment includes a supply of "people cards" each exhibiting a person having individual socio-economic characteristics. From this supply each player selects one card at random to establish his "id...
08/31/1976
3966211Traffic court board game
A board game apparatus having a plurality of line indicia defining an elongated street and a plurality of blocks disposed along at least one line representing a plurality of commercial institutions. The apparatus also includes a plurality of cards having ...
06/29/1976
 
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