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Many Claims Pending Against Online Casinos

A US based communications companies is fishing for money right now as the small telecommunications company just sued eleven online casinos for patent infringement. The company in question, Lottotron Inc. claims that a very basic technology that is used within the Real Time Gaming software is a patented process that is owned by this communications company. This is, by far, not the first case that Lottotron has filed against a major company. In fact, Lottotron has previously filed similar a similar case against Microsoft! Additionally, earlier this year the company attempted the same patent infringement claims against another online casino, SBG – in all of these previous cases the courts have thrown out the claims.

Lottotron continues to primarily target some of the largest companies and businesses using this technology, particularly the online casinos. The focus on the internet gambling industry is likely because there is a good deal of money in the internet gambling industry and Lottotron is hoping for just one of these cases to win – or even to go to the trial stages before being thrown out. The technology in question could be argued to be open to the public domain and a basic communications tool that is not patentable by any company. This is the primary argument of the online casinos in question.

The case really brings up the a key problem with where internet communications are headed. RTG powered online casinos are being sued by a US based company, but jurisdictionally, none of the companies being sued actually have businesses running out of the US, so how will any ruling be formally enforced? This is the same issue that 1st Technology ran into in a similar patent dispute with the online poker site Bodog.