Ayre's Sticky Situation
There isn’t really a person alive who relishes admitting failure, but at the
same it is a fact of life and you can’t really win ‘em all. The CEO and founder
of the Bodog online casinos poker gambling company based out of Costa Rica and
Antigua, Calvin Ayre, refuses to admit defeat in the current patent litigation
that has made international news because of the vicious and personal nature of
Ayre’s many attacks against 1st Technology. And as the case just continues to
escalate between the two companies and the two heads of the company, some in the
online casinos and U.S. patent industries are opining that it is time for Ayre
to pay up and move on.
Ist Technologies has filed a patent lawsuit against the Bodog online casinos
poker gambling company last year and was awarded a default judgment when
representatives for Bodog did not show up to the hearing. Then followed a
enforcement judgment for 1st Technologies that gave the company the main Bodog
domain name. And what has ensued from that point forward has involved petty
name-calling and personal threats from the Ayre. The intense dispute and debate
over the patent issue has many really wondering who is in the right?
The President of the Alliance for American Innovation, Ronald J. Riley, is of
the opinion that Ayre is on a losing path and should end the case now by paying
the default judgment – at that point the Bodog online casinos poker gambling
company would be free of the issue and could focus on other areas – but Ayre is
adamant that Bodog is not only in the right, but also that his company is out of
the dominion of U.S. patents because he is wholly located outside of the U.S.
Riley notes, I strongly suspect that Ayre thought that his offshore corporate
status would protect him against infringement lawsuits and that the default
judgment situation is totally his own doing. Unbridled ego can be incredibly
expensive.” Riley continues with his opinion on what Ayre should do next to
resolve the patent issue, "Frankly, Calvin Ayre appears to have a very poor hand
and should know when to hold and when to fold.” Riley also noted that if Ayre
continues to press this case in the courts that his online poker gambling
company could end up paying more than triple the amount of the initial judgment. |