The Game Is To Be Sold: The Long Legal Battle For ‘Skee-Ball’

How the word “skee-ball” turned into a messy trademark battle between the century-old game maker and a New York bar league of skee-ball players. “Currently, the people who play skee-ball more obsessively than probably anyone else on the planet have been challenged to snuff out the term’s trademark in court. In the process, the lawsuit has pitted ardent players against the company that has manufactured those hallowed machines since 1909.”

Source: The Classical
Published: Jul 1, 2014
Length: 9 minutes (2,387 words)