Friday, 4 August 2006
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. 

Posted on 5:10 AM by Susan
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