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US Patent 5407207 - Board game simulating financial events of a lifetime

US Patent Issued on April 18, 1995
Estimated Patent Expiration Date: Icon_subject November 15, 2013Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
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Abstract

A game simulating financial events that a person encounters during the person's lifetime, including: a game board having disposed thereon a path of individual financial event indicia on which indicia playing pieces may land while traversing the path, the financial event indicia indicating, in some cases, mandatory or discretional financial transactions; one of the indicia being a starting point at which each player begins the game at a first predetermined age, with age advancing one year each time the starting point is passed, up to a second predetermined age at which the game terminates; first cards, each of which indicates thereon a job and a salary therefor, each player to draw one of the first cards when the game commences; second cards, each of which indicates thereon a type of business, the purchase price thereof, and the annual profits therefrom, one of the second cards to be drawn by a player, at the discretion thereof, when having a playing piece land on one of the indicia indicating a discretionary financial transaction to be made; and random number generating mechanism to be alternatingly activated by the players to determine a number of the financial event indicia to be traversed by each the playing piece for each move thereof.

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Application

No. 151953 filed on 11/15/1993

US Classes:

273/256Property or commodity transactions

Field of Search

273/242, Piece moves over board having pattern273/243, Chance device controls amount or direction of movement of piece273/256, Property or commodity transactions273/278Property or commodity transaction (e.g., stock market)

Examiners

Primary: Stoll, William E.

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US Patent References

53561, 2182531, 4150827, Economic board game
Issued on: 04/24/1979
Inventor: Barnett
4279422, Board game involving multiple variables and performance determination
Issued on: 07/21/1981
Inventor: Shaw
4416454, Management teaching game method
Issued on: 11/22/1983
Inventor: Delamontagne
4932668, Investment board game
Issued on: 06/12/1990
Inventor: Stewart
4936589, Board game apparatus
Issued on: 06/26/1990
Inventor: Sinclair
5071135, Board game apparatus for the teaching of financial management principles
Issued on: 12/10/1991
Inventor: Campbell
5118113, Board game
Issued on: 06/02/1992
Inventor: Ahlers, et al.
5261672Method of playing a tax board game
Issued on: 11/16/1993
Inventor: Jordan

Foreign Patent References

  • 1258689 CA 08/21/1989
  • 2163665 GB 03/21/1986

International Class

A63F 003/00

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