U.S. UTILITY PATENT FILED · TABLETOP PADDLE SPORT SYSTEM · DWG NO. 25-2622
AMERICA'S FASTEST- GROWING SPORT JUST GOT A TABLE.
A patent-pending tabletop paddle sport: a true scaled pickleball court, wider and longer than ping-pong, with a hybrid volley-and-bounce game engineered for real rallies. We built the category. Now we're licensing it.
THE WHITESPACE IS
THE SIZE OF A TABLE.
Pickleball owns the driveway. Ping-pong owns the basement. Nothing owns both, because a conventional table tennis table can't hold a pickleball court. It's the wrong width, the wrong length, the wrong game.
That gap is the product. The patent application covers a playing surface that is wider and longer than ping-pong, marked as a proportionally exact pickleball court, and paired with a rule system built for the tabletop. It's not a novelty topper. It's a new table sport with pickleball's DNA, sized for garages, rec rooms, sports bars, campus lounges and family rooms.
For a paddle brand or a game-table manufacturer, it lands in an aisle that already exists, sells to a market that's already sprinting, and carries a patent-pending moat around both the equipment and the way the game is played.
A COURT, A GAME,
AND TWO WAYS TO SELL IT.
TRUE COURT GEOMETRY
Baselines, sidelines, service courts and the non-volley "kitchen," reproduced in proportion on a surface bigger than ping-pong in both directions. The scale is the invention: far enough for real serves, close enough for a living room.
A HYBRID GAME
Strike the ball out of the air or off a single bounce, never two. That one constraint creates a rally dynamic that is neither table tennis nor pickleball. The rules ship with the patent: rally scoring, win on serve, a service restriction zone that kills the cheap short serve.
TWO SKUs, ONE PATENT
A standalone folding table for the flagship price point, and a conversion panel system that drops onto a ping-pong table, billiards table or dining table for the entry price point. Same court, same game, two shelf positions.
FIG. 2 — TOP PLAN VIEW,
DRAWN LIVE.
Rebuilt from the filed drawings, to scale. Hover the parts schedule to locate each reference numeral. The dashed ghost is a regulation table tennis footprint, shown for size.
IT SELLS ANYWHERE
A TABLE FITS.
THE RULES ARE
PART OF THE PATENT.
Most table games ship hardware and improvise the sport. Here the gameplay system is claimed subject matter. Five rules, five claims.
VOLLEY, OR ONE BOUNCE. NEVER TWO.
Take the ball out of the air like pickleball, or off a single bounce like ping-pong. The second bounce ends the rally. This is the engine of the game: it forces movement, rewards touch, and keeps rallies alive.
RALLY SCORING
A point on every rally, whoever served. Games to 15 or 21, win by two. Every serve matters, every game moves. Built for bar play, tournaments and TV pacing alike.
WIN IT ON YOUR SERVE
Game point only converts when the serving side scores it. Comebacks stay possible until the last swing, and the closing serve becomes the most watchable moment in the game.
SERVICE RESTRICTION ZONE
A marked zone near the net where serves may not land. No cheap drop serves. Every point opens deep, diagonal and returnable, the way the sport is meant to start.
THE LET
A serve that clips the net and still lands in is replayed. A small rule that signals a real sport: fair, legible, and instantly familiar to anyone who has played a racquet game.
THE MOAT COVERS THE TABLE
AND THE GAME ON IT.
THE APPARATUS
The oversized playing surface itself: scaled court layout, transverse net, folding-table embodiment, single and multi-panel conversion embodiments, removable net, and the support structures that carry them.
THE METHOD
Playing the game on that surface: diagonal service into designated courts, kitchen restrictions, panel assembly, net attachment by clamp, slot or magnet, and the scaled paddle-and-ball accessory kit.
THE SPORT
The rule system independent of any one table: volley-or-one-bounce play, rally scoring, win-on-serve, the service restriction zone and the let. Protection that follows the game, not just the furniture.
STATUS: U.S. UTILITY APPLICATION ON FILE · SPECIFICATION REVISED 04.2026 · DRAWINGS DWG NO. 25-2622 (2 SHEETS)
NAMING: "DINK" IS AN INTERNAL CODENAME. THE TRADEMARK LANE IS CLEAR FOR A LICENSEE'S BRAND.
WE'RE NOT SELLING TABLES.
WE'RE LICENSING A CATEGORY.
The full package is ready for a partner who already owns the aisle: the utility application, both drawing sheets, the complete rule set, and the two-SKU product architecture.
- Exclusive, category or territory licensing, with royalty structures open to negotiation
- Full application and drawings disclosed under NDA
- Naming and trademark freedom: brand it as your own franchise
- Flagship table and conversion-panel SKUs from a single filing
Built for paddle-sport brands, game-table manufacturers, sporting goods retailers with house brands, and family game companies looking for their next table franchise.