CONTINGENT EVENT RIGHTS RELATING TO TEAM LOCATION

• US 20090070249A1
• Filed: 09/10/2007
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Ticket Reserve Incorporated
• Original Assignee: The Ticket Reserve Incorporated
• Inventors: Harmon, Richard M., Leach, Andrew K.
• Application Number:
  US11/852,518
• Publication Number:
  US 20090070249A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing a platform for exchanging a right, the right being subject to a contingency, wherein the right relates to a right to an item associated with a sports team and wherein contingency relates to the location of the sports team.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing a platform for exchanging a right, the right being subject to a contingency, wherein the right relates to a right to an item associated with a sports team and wherein contingency relates to the location of the sports team.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the item is a ticket to a sporting event.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the item is an item of team-related merchandise.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the item is a ticket to a post-season game.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the item is an accommodation related to a sporting event.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the item is a ticket for travel to a sporting event.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the item is a seat license.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the item is a right to acquire season tickets.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the location of the sport team is the short-term location of the team.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the location is the long-term location of the team.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the location is the selected home city of the team.