Bodog

[TheLawyer]

NB. Note from admin - this post is about very old news - bodoglife is active


Bodog.com is no more. Following what appeared to be technical difficulties yesterday with the company’s domain, customers are now being directed to NewBodog.com.[/COLOR][/FONT]
According to details emerging this morning, the loss of the company’s domain name is not the cause of the problem, but rather a result of more serious litigation brought against the company by 1st Technology LLC.

1st Technology LLC owns a patent on a process for taking bets online and claims that Bodog’s downloadable software infringes the company’s patent, which has been granted in the United States as well as elsewhere in the world.

Bodog failed to answer the allegations made against them in a suit filed in the State of Nevada and as a result, a default judgement was issued against them on August 1st 2007 ordering the company to pay damages of $49.0 million.

As a part of the ruling, the registrar of Bodog’s domain names was ordered to remove all name servers associated with Bodog and Calvin Ayre, rendering the domains useless.

While this will no doubt severely impact Bodog, the implications for the online gaming industry as a whole are huge. If the 1st Technology patent really does protect a fundamental process of online gaming, many, many more operators could find themselves being forced to pay out big.

Gaming Intelligence Group will bring you further details of this case and the patent in question, as information becomes available.


Update 1:

On June 14th 2007, 1st Technology LLC obtained a $48.6 million default judgement against Bodog Entertainment Group SA, Bodog.net and Bodog.com.

In an affidavit filed in conjunction with the case, lawyers on behalf of 1st Technology LLC argued that “Bodog continues to act with impunity in the United States”, generating revenue of over $4.8 billion since 2004.

"However, despite reaping the rewards of U.S. commerce, the Bodog entities evade United States law and courts, and Mr. Ayre gloats about his companies' ability to operate above American law." The affidavit goes on to state, “1st Technology continues to suffer massive and irreparable harm because of the Bodog entities' wrongful conduct", and the "only way to stop this harm is to enjoin Bodog's United States activities."



Update 2:


1st Technology LLC was granted patent no. 5,745,379 on April 28th 1998 for a Method for the production and transmission of enhanced multimedia information.

The patent is for an optimisation method that enhances the interactivity of multimedia information. The optimization method includes separating a multimedia information into primary and secondary layers and enhancing that information in the primary layers such that the perceived psychographic information quality is improved. This method has the advantage of providing compression and/or transmission algorithms to maximize enhancement of the multimedia information.

"GIG"

[scrawnybob]

hi

I was close to deleting this post as its such old news and people would read it as bodog has closed and therefore so late after the event it's misleading

when Bodog has not closed - its is alive and well with a new url

this was covered at length by me at the time (last year over 6 months ago)
when bodog briefly became newbodog and then (and currently) bodoglife

only the bodog domain is no longer bodog poker but everyone here knows the history as I kept everyone well informed while it was all happening

for those of you who need info on Bodog - see our Bodog Poker Review

please think about how people will read things and jump to the wrong conclusions if posting old news - we run tournament regularly at Bodog - older members know of the changes - but to new members this could easily confuse them

posting things like this just panics people into thing something else has happened recently - when it hasnt

cheers admin