Bodog and 1st Technology set for courtroom confrontation
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Despite the fact that the company has now completely shifted online operations to a new - and they say, permanent - home, Bodog is continuing to aggressively respond to the lawsuit filed against them for patent infringement by 1st Technology LLC.
Read our past coverage of how the lawsuit caused Bodog to lose control of their domains names here.
It now appears that the two sides are scheduled to meet in a Nevada Court on October 11th, 2007. This court date will focus on the default judgment handed down by a court in Washington State.
In his blog, Bodog founder Calvin Ayre seems characteristically confident regarding 1st technology’s prospects:
We believe this ridiculous decision will be overturned and all the domains will be freed. However they will not be returned to their previous roll of prominence in Bodog’s operating entities as this roll will be taken by the new BodogLife.com structure from here forward. My guess is that no matter what the outcome of this legal process, Raymond Niro and the 1st Tech Patent Trolls will never see anything but ridicule coming from Bodog as we have been clear since first finding out what these guys were doing when they grabbed the domains….the company they are in court with is not part of the Bodog group anymore, has zero operations and zero assets…and the BodogLife Gaming Group of Companies does not operate in the United States. They will spend a lot of money and we will generate a lot of press but they will figure this out eventually. Oh ya…did I mention they never served us?
While Ayre doesn’t reference them directly, we assume that the court battle is going to be fought by Morris Mohawk, the proxy company Bodog handed off licensing rights for it’s North American businesses to a few weeks ago.
