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From: wdr@wang.com (William Ricker)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Legal Question (Monopoly game patent)
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Date: 20 Jul 90 21:57:06 GMT
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
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I wrote:

>>   In <191100007@trsvax> reyn@trsvax.UUCP writes:
>>   >Can the rules of a game be copyrighted or patented?

>The Rules, Paraphernalia, and concepts of the classic board game
>Monopoly were patented.  I have read the patent, which is the usual
>collection of stacked claims, broad to narrow.  I have just sent a
>request to my friend who has a copy for the # and date, and will post
>same when received, so you  needn't ask for it.

I received:

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Bill,
    Charles B. Darrow of Philadelphia assignor to Parker Bros. Inc., Salem 
Mass, a corporation of Maine. "Board Game Apparatus", No. 2,026,082
Application filed Aug. 31, 1935, Patented Dec. 31, 1935. Nine claims.
                                                             Jim

[The miracles of modern translating Gateways. This message came
from a Wang Office message from a friend who helped automate the
patent office, which I forwarded as a Wang Office package to my Unix
mail-box, and now post for the curious.
   --bill ]
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