Yes.
My initial thoughts were it was a clandestine US government setup using a Washington State puppet judge to try and use civil procedures to lure in sucker into US territory.
The “patent” certainly seems to be no more than someone thinking about how online casino games might be played.
There’s no technology, no REAL definable uniqueness that makes this stick. Its hugely unlikely that Bodog or other casinos used ANYTHING from this mans papers in designing their systems.
It’s summary judgments like this that make the whole intellectual propety area a laughing stock.
I am waiting for the day that someone gets a retrospective patent on IP addressing and then wants to start charging by the IP packet.
:Cry:
It will be interesting to see how this plays out though …
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