The people at Google have been hard at work, and they have scanned many of the US Patents (around seven million), and made them nice and searchable. A recent Geeklist on Boardgamegeek remarked on this, and pointed out a number of patents relating to games. Three of those patents are ones that someone we all know and love has applied for and of course received. http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT4936585 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6352262 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6474650 Makes for interesting reading... Timothy