Gregory Sleet may be a United States District Court judge, but he’s apparently not above playing the occasional “match-and-win” style promotional game. “If you are willing to admit to playing the McDonald’s Monopoly game, you will know that there are few things so alluring, yet simultaneously maddening,” the judge wrote in a decision issued Friday.
Whatever its charms may be, the concept underlying those games is an abstract idea that is not eligible for patent protection, Sleet concluded, handing a win to mobile game app maker Supercell Inc. and a Fenwick & West team led by partner Michael Sacksteder.
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