Gaming Company’s Tic-Tac-Fruit Patent Nixed by Federal Circuit

A patented configuration for a gambling terminal “Tic-Tac-Fruit” game was abstract and thus ineligible for protection, the Federal Circuit affirmed.

A Pennsylvania district judge was correct when he ruled that Georgia-based Savvy Dog Systems LLC’s version of a tic-tac-toe game was unpatentable, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a nonprecedential opinion Thursday.

Savvy Dog in 2019 accused rival gaming-terminal company Pennsylvania Coin LLC of copying its patented version of a tic-tac-toe based game that included more elements of skill in an effort to skirt an Ohio anti-gambling law. The suit fell flat, however, when a ...