A63F 3/00028
Board games simulating indoor or outdoor sporting games
Official title: {Board games simulating indoor or outdoor sporting games, e.g. bowling, basketball, boxing, croquet, athletics, jeu de boules, darts, snooker, rodeo (racing games played on boards A63F3/00082; indoor games played with small balls A63F7/00)}
A63F3/00028 (Board games simulating indoor or outdoor sporting games) appears on 336 US grants and 180 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 336
- Published applications
- 180
- Assignees
- 60
- Inventors
- 548
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 10 | 0 |
| 1977 | 11 | 0 |
| 1978 | 10 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 14 | 0 |
| 1981 | 11 | 0 |
| 1982 | 8 | 0 |
| 1983 | 8 | 0 |
| 1984 | 6 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 10 | 0 |
| 1988 | 4 | 0 |
| 1989 | 8 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 9 | 0 |
| 1992 | 13 | 0 |
| 1993 | 12 | 0 |
| 1994 | 9 | 0 |
| 1995 | 13 | 0 |
| 1996 | 18 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 0 |
| 1999 | 10 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 0 |
| 2002 | 14 | 11 |
| 2003 | 9 | 14 |
| 2004 | 5 | 11 |
| 2005 | 5 | 14 |
| 2006 | 2 | 14 |
| 2007 | 7 | 17 |
| 2008 | 6 | 15 |
| 2009 | 4 | 8 |
| 2010 | 6 | 9 |
| 2011 | 3 | 1 |
| 2012 | 4 | 8 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4 |
| 2014 | 4 | 7 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 1 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2 | 8 |
| 2019 | 2 | 7 |
| 2020 | 6 | 4 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A63F 3/00041Football, soccer or rugby board games108
- A63F 3/00031Baseball or cricket board games72
- A63F 3/0005Golf or putting board games54
- A63F 3/00047Basketball board games15
- A63F 3/00044Tennis or squash board games6
- A63F 3/00053Snooker, pool or billiard board games6
- A63F 3/00059Bowling board games5
- A63F 3/00056Darts board games1
Recent patents
- Portable indoor-outdoor board game4 Aug 2026US 12,697,541 B1
- Bowling board game13 Jan 2026US 12,521,621 B2Scarb Enterprises, LLC
- Simulated basketball game system13 Jan 2026US 12,521,622 B2
- Portable indoor-outdoor board game12 Dec 2023US 11,839,825 B1
- On track an improved shoot the moon game14 Feb 2023US 11,577,152 B2
Most cited
By later US patents
- Gaming device having an animated figure262US 6,537,152 B2Atlantic City Coin & Slot Service Company, Inc. · 2003
- Electronic game having intelligent game pieces204US 5,190,285 AAT&T Bell Laboratories · 1993
- System for monitoring play of a golfer147US 5,086,390 A1992
- Electronic baseball game121US 4,372,557 AMattel, Inc. · 1983
- Electronically operable game scoring apparatus118US 4,266,214 A1981