Date: 14/10/2008
Name:
Email: Keep my email address private
Reply:
**Your comments must be approved before they appear on the site.

  
You are posting a comment about...
Lawsuit Board Game -- Weekend Distraction
If you don't get enough fun from lawsuits in your working life, maybe you can play a lawsuit game in your time off. 

The Patently Silly blog tells about a Lawsuit Board Game patent.  According to Patently Silly,
This game unabashedly introduces kids to the realities of being a legal eagle, including:

    * crippling law school debt;
    * outrageous hourly fees;
    * filling your office with expensive and intimidating leather bound books;
    * product-liability cash cows;
    * and the hazy definition of "emotional distress."

This is the abstract of the patent from the USPTO. 

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.
Thanks to Overlawyered.com. 

Search
Enter text and click Go to search:
sun mon tue wed thu fri sat
    1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31  
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
RSS Site Feed
RSS Feed