| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 473004000 |
Table or gameboard
| 41 |
| 473044000 |
Cue
| 27 |
| 473002000 |
Practice device or device to aid in aiming cue or cue ball during shots (e.g., to assist in bank shots, etc.)
| 24 |
| 473040000 |
Ball spotting rack
| 8 |
| 473042000 |
Cue rest
| 7 |
| 473052000 |
Ball | 3 |
| 20080220888 | Light up pool ball - A light emitting billiard ball adapted to transmit light upon impact having an outer shell and a light emitting circuit. The light emitting circuit energizes an LED and the energized LED transmits light through the outer shell. The principle use is for billiard balls however other applications will benefit from this invention. For example, Bocce balls, bowling balls, tennis balls, ping pong balls, as well as other balls in impact applications will benefit from this application. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090042658 | Light Up Billiard Ball - The lighted ball includes a spherical housing having a transparent portion, a circuit board mounted in the spherical housing, a on-off switch to detect an impact of the spherical housing and a lamp to flash in response to the impact of the spherical housing. The on off switch includes a first vibration switch and a second vibration switch which is positioned an angle with respect to the first vibration switch, and the lamp includes a first light emitting diode and a second light emitting diode which is positioned at an acute angle with respect to the first light emitting diode. The angle may be approximately 90°. The first light emitting diode may be a different color than the second light emitting diode, and the spherical housing includes a controller to receive signals from the on-off switch. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20120122600 | BILLIARD BALL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - The present invention relates to a billiard ball, comprising: a main body, the outer surface of which has at least one design groove; a designed member which is arranged in the design groove and which has a design; and a transparent resin which fills the design groove, thereby continuously showing an advertisement design, which has been formed on the billiard ball, during a game of billiards, thus achieving maximized advertising effects. | 05-17-2012 |
| 473035000 |
Cue chalker | 1 |
| 20100240466 | Cue chalk label with scuffing device - The present invention provides a chalk label as a scuffing device for a billiard cue chalk. The device includes a multilayered billiard chalk label with an exposed portion of scuffing surface intended for the use of scuffing a billiard cue tip so the chalk can adhere better. | 09-23-2010 |
| Entries |
| Document | Title | Date |
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| 20090054168 | POOL TABLE GAME INCLUDING PROCESS FOR INTERACTIVELY DELIVERING SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS TO EACH PLAYER FOR ALL SHOTS DURING GAME PLAY - The present invention is directed to a method of playing a billiards game among a plurality of players. The invention resides in the delivery of a set of shot instructions to each player in the game. Each player is to take turns shooting his or her assigned balls according to the set of shot instructions. Once all shot instructions have been complied with, the game is scored according to the rules of the particular game and a winner is determined. The method of delivering shot instructions has application in many different games with varying sets of game rules. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090215546 | BILLARD GAME AND METHOD OF PLAYNG THE SAME - The instant application discloses a variety of embodiments for a method and apparatus relating to games of pool. One embodiment for a method of playing pool may comprise a first player and a second layer shooting a cue ball at object balls. In the embodiment the first layer will shoot to break a rack of object balls. After breaking the rack of the object balls, the first player may shoot a pre-determined number of ten shots where the player attempts to pocket as many balls as possible. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090286610 | UNIVERSAL RATING SYSTEM FOR POCKET BILLIARD PLAYERS - A universal ratings system for pocket billiards players uses the break inning as the baseline or foundation for measuring each player's ability and for deriving an average value therefrom that determines a numerical rating for each player, with ratings system applicable to billiard games such as Eight-Ball, Nine-Ball, and Ten-Ball, with the number of scored breaks, and minimum scored breaks, requisite for determining a rating being between 10 and 200, and each particular break inning count resulting and determined from the number of object balls left on the table prior to a miss, scratch, or foul which actions terminate that particular break inning for the respective billiard game. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100009768 | Billiard football game - Method and apparatus to play a football contest which is realistically simulated on a pocket billiard table surface; comprising of a plurality of billiard balls having football field, football and player indicia thereon to be placed on said supporting surface and selectively driven into pockets by a hand held device such as a cue stick. The apparatus includes a set of ten billiard balls representing field yard line balls, football/goal-line ball, a cue ball and an offensive center player ball. Each ball is associated with a specific player i.e.; field yard line balls and goal-line/football ball for the offense to pocket, and center ball and football/goal-line ball to be pocketed by the defense. Players take turns on playing on offense and defense. A winner is declared when all drives have been completed and to the player with the most points. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20110034260 | Pool 300 - The Pool-300™ game enables one or more players to utilize standard pool equipment/implements (i.e., cue sticks, balls and a pool table) or specially designed implements (for electronic gaming), to play an individual or league match comprising playing a sequence of M individual frames. For each of the M frames, ten (10) sequentially numbered balls are racked in different pre-assigned configurations, each with a different numbered ball being the head ball. A Pool-300™ Rules Sheet and Pool-300™ Score Sheet are provided to explain how the game is played and illustrate which configuration is to be utilized for each frame. Frame scores, based on the number of balls pocketed in each frame, are recorded for each frame, and a final tally of scores calculated as the player's score for the game. In a first of two innings of each frame, the rules require the players to pocket the balls in numerical/sequential order. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110269559 | Chess, checkers and backgammon using billiard table and balls - Sets of white and colored billiard balls each displaying unique indicia of rank or type of ball are provided for playing chess, checkers and backgammon on a standard billiards table. Each of the games has a uniquely appropriate series of rules for playing such games in a billiards table environment keyed to the indicia marked on each of the billiard balls. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110294585 | ARRANGEMENT ADAPTED TO BE USED WITH CONVENTIONAL BILLIARD TABLES FOR GREATER UTILISATION, VERSATILITY AND/OR APPLICATION OF SAID TABLES - An arrangement adapted to be used with conventional billiard tables for greater utilisation, versatility and/or application of said tables, said arrangement including, a multiplicity of billiard tables located at a variety of separate locations, a means to register and allow for communication between a plurality of players, such that said players need not necessarily play upon the same table nor be located at the one location, said players intended to compete against other registered players, or approve upon personal individual skill level, a timer such that competition between players or improvement of personal standings of an individual is based upon timing of pocketing a set of balls or part thereof upon the respective billiard table by said, timer, a means for having time results of the or each player transferred to a central database wherein individual player's times and standings may then be acknowledged. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120258813 | Billiards Queue Placement Token - One embodiment of a circular flat token having a unique design on the top of the base, a unique design on the bottom of the base, and sides that are low in profile which can be placed on a billiards table to sequence participation in a point of sale activity. Other embodiments are described and shown. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20140243108 | ROTATION GAMES PLAYED ON A POOL TABLE - Described herein are methods for playing a rotation game on a pool table, and methods for scoring and racking rotation games described herein. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20160136510 | BILLIARDS CUE BALL IN HAND HANDICAP SYSTEM - A present scoring method relates to a billiards sessions, matches, or tournaments having a ball in hand handicap system permitting varied skill level players to compete with more experienced players. Teams comprised of multiple players compete periodic in a series of games to determine ranking based on point values assigned to wins and losses. Team tournament and scoring based from method process determine ultimate winner of said tournament. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160184692 | CUE GAME - An elongated playing surface includes: a long axis, a rigid planar cue section at one end, at an opposite end a rigid planar object section rotatable about the long axis, and a mid section twistable about the long axis interconnecting the cue and object sections. The game is played with a cue ball, object balls and cue stick. End and side rails confine the balls atop the playing surface. One end rail, affixed to the object section, defines one or more openings at which are disposed respective ball pockets. The object of the game is to drive the object balls into a pocket by striking them with the cue ball driven by the cue stick. From time to time a mechanism tilts the object section and twists the mid section laterally about the long axis causing balls on said sections to roll according to gravity, making them moving targets. | 06-30-2016 |
