Further Details Of Bodog Entertainment’s Plight
August 29, 2007
A $48.6 million default judgment obtained by a Las Vegas company against Bodog Poker in a patent infringement case kept the online giant out of service on Monday and Tuesday. Bodog established a new website which is almost identical to the first and was back to operational by Tuesday afternoon.
Though a news release stated that it was a dispute of the owner ship of bodog.com and a confident Calvin Ayres claiming that they are fighting the dispute and would win, no other details were brought forth.
According to Nevada court documents, 1st Technology LLC of Las Vegas obtained the judgment on June 14th against Bodog Entertainment Group S.A., Bodog.net and Bodog.com. This was after a period in which Bodog failed to answer allegations that the software used by Bodog players infringed upon 1st Technology's patents.
One of the speculations is that since the US Department of Justice started arresting online gambling executives that Bodog representatives will not come onto American soil thus not answering to allegations which lead to the judgment and shut down.
1st Technology has been steadily closing in on Bodog, which was run out of Costa Rica but now based in Antigua. 1st Technology lawyer Kristopher Rath complained that, despite the default judgment, Bodog "continues to act with impunity in the United States."
"The Bodog entities infringing activities are responsible for over $65 billion in cumulative transactions to date, with approximately two-thirds of this revenue currently being derived from infringing United States activities," he said.
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