Company Analysis

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (PLAY)

Nasdaq: PLAY · Retail-Eating Places · Dallas, TX · filing with the SEC since 2011
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Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

2 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
2
2 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 1 in 2024 and none in 2023
Applications published
0
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'20'24
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
Dave & Buster's Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
MAIN EVENT ENTERTAINMENT, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jul 30, 2024D1,037,242KioskMAIN EVENT ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
Mar 31, 2020D879,901Amusement attractionDave & Buster's Inc.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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