A63F 3/00003
Types of board games
Official title: {Types of board games (chess A63F3/02; educational board games A63F3/04)}
A63F3/00003 (Types of board games) appears on 3,574 US grants and 3,133 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 3,574
- Published applications
- 3,133
- Assignees
- 765
- Inventors
- 5,088
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 147 | 138 |
| 2003 | 154 | 179 |
| 2004 | 116 | 204 |
| 2005 | 76 | 220 |
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| 2009 | 74 | 140 |
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| 2011 | 52 | 100 |
| 2012 | 75 | 116 |
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| 2019 | 58 | 107 |
| 2020 | 82 | 89 |
| 2021 | 54 | 76 |
| 2022 | 58 | 82 |
| 2023 | 61 | 90 |
| 2024 | 58 | 79 |
| 2025 | 50 | 60 |
| 2026 | 14 | 34 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A63F 3/00157Casino or betting games1,722
- A63F 3/00006Board games played along a linear track666
- A63F 3/00028Board games simulating indoor or outdoor sporting games336
- A63F 3/00063Board games concerning economics or finance298
- A63F 3/00075War games187
- A63F 3/00094Ticktacktoe138
- A63F 3/00088Board games concerning traffic or travelling124
- A63F 3/00082Racing games115
All 16 subgroupsShow fewer
- A63F 3/00097Board games with labyrinths, path finding, line forming97
- A63F 3/001Board games concerning astrology, religion, or fortune-telling91
- A63F 3/00119Board games concerning music, theatre, cinema, or art78
- A63F 3/00145Board games concerning treasure-hunting, fishing, hunting72
- A63F 3/00138Board games concerning voting, political or legal subjects42
- A63F 3/00148Board games concerning westerns, detectives, espionage, pirates, murder, disasters, shipwreck rescue operations35
- A63F 3/00151Backgammon9
- A63F 3/00154Mastermind8
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