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A63F 1/18

Scoring or registering devices; Indicators

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 2006

Full Title

Card games > Card game appurtenances > Scoring or registering devices; Indicators

Classification Context

Section:
HUMAN NECESSITIES
Class:
SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
Subclass:
CARD, BOARD OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Filing statistics

IPC A63F 1/18 belongs to the parent subclass A63F, which recorded 258,711 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 17,709 in 2013 to 25,753 in 2023 (+45%), peaking at 26,705 applications in 2019. The most active applicants in class A63 are SANKYO (23,899 applications), SANYO PRODUCT COMPANY (23,718 applications) and DAIICHI SHOKAI COMPANY (13,338 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

Additional Content

Apparatus for indicating the dealer in card games

Related Keywords

MARKERS for scores of gamesMARKING of scoring gamesSCORING card gamesTRUMP indicators for card games

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class A63, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SANKYO 23,899
  2. SANYO PRODUCT COMPANY 23,718
  3. DAIICHI SHOKAI COMPANY 13,338
  4. KYORAKU SANGYO 10,447
  5. UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION 9,545
  6. SANEI R & D COMPANY 9,135
  7. SAMMY CORPORATION 7,126
  8. NEWGIN CORPORATION 5,651
  9. NETEASE 4,877
  10. HEIWA CORPORATION 3,938