Patenting The Dice Is Not A Child's Play!

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (US Court) recently rejected a patent application titled "Casino Game and a Set of Six-Face Cubic Colored Dice," related to "dice games intended to be played in gambling casinos, in which a participant attempted to achieve a particular winning combination of subsets of the dice." The subject-matter of the patent application was a set of three Dice wherein each Die (read singular for Dice) had a marking on only some of the faces. Only a single face of the first die had a first die marking, two faces of the second die had an identical second die marking, and three faces of the third die had an identical third die marking. A wager is to be placed on a particular combination that would appear face up once the Dice are rolled. The patent claims related to the steps of placing a wager, rolling the set of Dice, and paying a payout amount if at least one wagered outcome occurs.