BoDog under fire again

[Raji]

Patent Troll Continues to Harass Wrong Company in Attempt to Coerce Settlement

For Immediate Release:

February 22, 2008

St. John’s, Antigua – Recent reports indicate that Scott Lewis and 1st Technology, LLC (“1st Tech”) have increased their use of scare tactics in their case against a domain management company which, at one time, provided their services to Bodog, by targeting advertisers that work in conjunction with Bodog with subpoenas. Unfortunately for Scott Lewis and 1st Tech, as previously established on several occasions, Bodog and its former domain management service provider (now known as “Data Entry and Domain Management, S.A.”) are entirely separate companies, one simply having provided services to the other. At no time did Data Entry and Domain Management, S.A. have a corporate relationship with Bodog. As such, no amount of subpoenas sought from companies that work in conjunction with Bodog will be of any use in 1st Tech’s frivolous patent dispute.

As is clearly stated by the Antigua Gaming Commission, Bodog (now Bodoglife.com on the Internet) has been based in Antigua since fall 2006 and had been previously operating there under a license that was obtained when purchased from BetWWTS. Shortly thereafter, Bodog obtained its own license from the Antigua Gaming Commission, months prior to 1st Tech receiving a default judgment against Bodog’s former independent domain management service provider.

The Bodoglife.com domain was established shortly after the original Bodog domain was lost and has never received redirects from Bodog.com. The Bodoglife.com domain is no way connected with 1st Tech’s case and it stretches credulity for 1st Tech to claim that relationships between Bodog and its suppliers in relation to this domain could be in any way relevant to 1st Tech’s effort to collect its questionable default judgment from an independent, defunct, and essentially insolvent ex-service provider. No subpoena that is targeted at anything to do with Bodog.com should affect Bodoglife.com or .net advertising relationships.

Bodog’s former domain management service provider is and has always been based in Costa Rica (not Antigua) and has only ever provided Bodog with domain management and data entry services. Bodog did at one time allow the domain management service to use the Bodog name to make their domain management work for Bodog easier, but that is no longer and will never again be the case.

“The company targeted by Scott Lewis and 1st Tech in the patent dispute is not and has never been Bodog,” says Bodog Founder Calvin Ayre. “The company itself has been asset-less since long before litigation even began. No amount of subpoenas issued on the part of Scott Lewis and 1st Tech will make the wrong company the right company or put assets into an asset-less company. At this point they’re just chasing shadows.”

Raji