Taking Game Night to the Next Level!

We invite members of the intellectual property academic community to compete in a live-hosted virtual world where your knowledge of intellectual property law and Santa Clara Law’s High Tech Law Institute will earn you bragging rights and a coveted prize – your own bobblehead.

Enter the virtual world we’ve created and imagine…

Your tenure deadline is looming and you and your team are racing to make the submission deadline of an important scholarly article to Santa Clara Law’s High Tech Law Journal. You’re well on your way to submit the paper when you hit a major snag! Will you be able to overcome it and meet the deadline?  Seventy-five minutes will decide your publishing fate as you navigate a series of puzzles and challenges aided by the discovery of IP trivia and Santa Clara Law themed Easter eggs that will help you unlock your academic future!

Ground Rules:

1. Participants must be part of the intellectual property law academic community, which includes tenured or tenure track professors, adjunct professors, post-graduate fellows or administrators (no students please).
2. Registration is limited on a first come, first served basis. Players must register by October 18, 2020 by submitting a completed registration form.
3. Participants must register with an .edu email address, and select three time slots for playing the game.
4. HTLI will form up to ten teams the composition of which will be based on a variety of factors and in HTLI’s sole discretion. The minimum number of players on a team will be four. The maximum number of players on a team will be eight.
5. Teams will be played online and synchronously using the Paruzal Games Zoom platform.
6. HTLI will assign teams by Oct. 20, 2020.
7. All teams must compete by playing the game between October 22, 2020 and October 30, 2020
8. HTLI will declare a winner the week of November 1, 2020 after all the teams have played.
9. Each member of the winning team will receive a bobblehead of their own likeness*, or may select a bobblehead from the HTLI library of bobbleheads.

*To create a bobblehead, winners will be required to submit photos of their likeness to a third party website designated by HTLI and to select a body style from a selection of styles.

Game Rules and Instructions

• Your team will have a single score based on time, which includes the 1) total minutes taken to complete the game, 2) the number of hints taken which will increase your time, and 3) the number of approved Easter eggs you identify that will decrease your time.
• The team with the lowest cumulative time score wins.
• The virtual escape room experience will run for 75 minutes, including the instructions given to the team. Teams that don’t finish the game will be assigned a time of 80 minutes.
• The game host can give out hints, but not unless team members explicitly ask for or agree to getting a hint. Each hint has a 3-minute penalty.
• Teams will also be scored on the number of Easter eggs they identify. Thirty-seven approved Easter eggs are scattered throughout the game, including the introduction and concluding descriptions, game images and other media, words and phrases that the host speaks. Easter eggs in this game are visual, oral, written, multimedia, words, phrases or objects that reference or represent facts, trivia or people associated with IP or High Tech law, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara Law and HTLI. Each Easter egg identified by a player will subtract 30 seconds from their team’s score. When a player hears or sees an Easter egg, the player should call it out and give a brief description of why it is significant to IP law, Santa Clara University, or the High Tech Law Institute, including its faculty or history. The host will have a list of Easter eggs that have been approved by HTLI, and these are the only ones that will count toward your score.
• In the event of a tie, the team that has the most Easter eggs wins, if there is a tie for the number of Easter eggs, then the team with the least number of hints will win. The winning team will also receive recognition by the High Tech Law Institute through social media and on this webpage.

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Leaderboard

Final Ranking	Team Name	Time	Final Time	Easter Eggs	Hints
1	Library Takeout	51:00	40:30 minutes	21	0
2	Lettuce Scape the Shroom	52:22	41:52	27	1
3	Expedited Adieu	58:34	44:34	28	0
4	Teetotalers	59:53	50:23	25	1
5	Ipse Exit	61:32	52:32	30	2
6	Transformative Excuse	61:00	56:30	27	3
7	This is Fine	80:00	72:30	27	0

And the winner is….

Team Library Takeout: Prof. Lisa Ouellette of Stanford University, Prof. Jake Sherkow of University of Illinois, Prof. Rachel Sachs of Washington University, Prof. Nicholson Price of University of Michigan, and Prof. Jake Linford of Florida State University. They were the first to play and remained in first place throughout the game. Even though they found only 21 Easter eggs, the least of any team, their amazing puzzling skills, teamwork, and theme song, set them apart! With no hints needed, they finished the game in 51 minutes (the fastest of any team), and finished with a final score of 40 minutes 30 seconds after subtracting time for finding Easter eggs.

Team Lettuce Scape the Shroom came in a minute and 52 seconds behind, for a second place finish. If only they didn’t take that one hint, costing them a 3 minute penalty!

And how about team Ipse Exit? They shattered the Easter egg hunt record of 28 set by team Expedited Adieu, by finding 30 of the 37 Easter eggs and setting a new record.

We hope you all enjoyed the IP and Santa Clara Law themed virtual escape room, and that it took your mind off our 2020 woes. Interested in the teams and players, check them out here!

Winners will be contacted so that they can design their own custom bobblehead, or select one of our special editions from the HTLI library.