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Bodog Pokes Fun

Calvin Ayre, the founder and CEO at Bodog.com and online casino poker site with services targeted at the U.S. market, quite obviously takes the U.S. patent litigation case less seriously than 1st Technology, the other company involved in the case. Earlier this year 1st Technology took Bodog Entertainment to court based on alleged patent infringement concerning technology that Bodog uses without license that enables advanced gambling at the company’s online casinos site. And though 1st Technology won a default judgment against Bodog, and has even won the company’s domain name, Ayre openly pokes fun at the patent lawsuit and refuses to acknowledge if the suit has any legitimacy.

Online casinos are certainly a hot topic in the worldwide internet gambling industry, but U.S. policies regarding internet gambling and poker are only partly to blame for Ayre’s blatant disregard for 1st Technology’s patent lawsuit. Ayre, or at least representatives for the Costa Rican based Bodog, were required by U.S. courts to attend a hearing in Las Vegas – then, when Bodog neither showed for the hearing nor paid the $49 million default judgment, 1st Technology took the case to a Washington state enforcement court. And at the point that 1st Technology won the online casino poker site’s domain name, Ayre began to publicly speak out about this altogether ridiculous situation.

The online casino poker site’s CEO has spoken to newspapers and reporters concerning the situation and the fact that he dismisses both 1st Technology and the U.S.’s power to actually enforce a judgment on a company that already operates offshore and without regard for current U.S. legislation. Specifically, Ayre mocks the UIGEA, which bans offshore online casinos, and continues to illegal offer internet gambling services to American