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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2006
Applicants:
James L. Nulph, San Antonio, TX (US);
Rhonda S. Gillen, San Antonio, TX (US);
Inventors:
James L. Nulph, San Antonio, TX (US);
Rhonda S. Gillen, San Antonio, TX (US);
Assignee:
Oberthur Gaming Technologies, Inc., Montreal, Quebec, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 3/06 (2006.01); A63F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A lottery ticket including at least one game area with at least one play area where each play area includes a plurality of play regions with each play region having a first indicia covered by an opaque scratch-off layer and a second indicia appearing above the scratch-off layer. The player removes at least one of the scratch-off layers and if the first indicia appearing in such activated play regions matches any one of the second indicia in a non-activated play region, a prize may be won.