How do I go about finding out if a ping pong game that I played as a kid has a patent or not?
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How long ago were you a kid?  Patents expire after 17 years, so if it's been longer than that, any patent on it would be moot.
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you may ask the ebay seller jbsnell4 if you are a member..they have a tony toys monkey on auction..I have already asked for info if you are not a member of www.ebay.com\n\nUpdate:\n\nThe person from ebay has no idea if the company is still in operation. Sorry I couldn't help you\n\nGood luck
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www.atptennis.com\nit's all there
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No. Nintendo owns the rights to those games and are extremely protective on who they license them out to. You might looks for a gameboy emulator for your pocketpc, and then just download the game romz.
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You can either do this by having a patent lawyer check it out for you , or you can do it yourself with the Fed. govt.\n\nDamn! Someone beat me to it!!   ;-)
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Hey. Found this in a roundabout way. A document on a Hong Kong  government site lists registered trademarks/intellectual property. Found from the document, that LP is based in Fort Lauderdale. Googled them in FTL and got this info:\n\n1203 NW 65th pl, Fort Lauderdale, 33309 - (954) 984-8184\n\nHope this helps you. Citations below
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If you have the patent nbr then look it up at the USPTO: \nhttp://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm\nEG: US Patent 5,146,634\n\nLook for the Inventors label. Keep in mind that the inventor may work for a corp who really owns the patent.\n\nIf you dont know the patent nbr you can use the site to search for keywords and find it.\nhttp://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-adv.htm\n\nIf it is a foreign patent there is a good chance you can find it using the EPO website.\nhttp://www.european-patent-office.org
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I'm not sure if it's trademark or copyright law, but yes.  The best case dealing with this was from the late 1980s, when Mattel sued Topps because the "Garbage Pail Kids" cards produced by the latter too closely resembled Cabbage Patch kids.
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Go to the patent office search page.  See below.
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Dr Kay,\n\nI'm a member of the Texas Inventors Association and I don't know- however- sometimes if you do a patent search online for similar patents and then look at the assignee field- it will tell you the names of the companies/brokers/agents who have purchased patents in the same field--- I have a provisional patent for a distance learning thing so if you find out please let me know- the fields are soemwhat related...stay in touch, cheers, Brett Hagins
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I would suggest getting in touch with the patent office.  If your game is so good, you don't want to risk losing it.\nIf you are planning to do something with this game, i.e. make money, you will need to start a company.  The best people to talk to would be your bank.  They can offer advice and a loan if they see it as a worthwhile investment.  Good luck with the game.  Hope to play it soon.
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Check out these websites:\nhttp://www.uspto.gov/\nhttp://www.centralcoastpatent.com/intellectual.htm\n\nCopyrights are registered by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.Go to this website:\nhttp://www.copyright.gov/\n\nGood luck.
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you can email the file containing the game to yourself and just save it to your desktop. my pinball game got corrupt so i just went to my dads computer and emailed the program to myself. worked perfectly
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Never heard of it, but that sounds interesting...\n\n\nYou probably can do a search of it on the patent office website.
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I have some old cards...maybe 12-15years old. I'll have to dig them out.. Could they be worth anything?\nThey were released in Australia
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I think you can find it at:\nhttp://patft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
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To many things to mention.  the world is constantly advancing in little ways, and occasionly in a great big step.  Heres a web site that tracks new patents, (processes or devices that were not known or have been rediscovered according to others).  Pick somethng to check into and you might find what your looking for.