16/07/2001
Home Gambling Network sues DrHo.com for infringing on patent “286”
Home Gambling Network Inc., a subsidiary of i2corp.com, licensor of the ?286 patent? that allows players worldwide to play live casino games from a remote location, is suing casino tycoon Stanley Ho and the operators of his casino web site, DrHo.com.
Home Gambling Network claims that the Antigua-based web site is infringing on its online gambling patent. According to Mel Molnick, Home Gambling's president, "DrHo.com violates all three aspects of the '268' patent because the site offers live casino games, and some of its players are located in Nevada and are paying electronically."
Molnick continued, ?To the best of my knowledge, Dr Ho is breaking Nevada gaming laws because he is taking the wagers of Nevada residents and his website can't take bets without first being licensed by the state of Nevada, and from Home Gambling which owns the patent rights."
Also charged is Ho?s son-in-law, two companies controlled by Ho, Macau-based casino
operator Sociedade DeTurismo E Diversoes De Macau (STDM) and Hong Kong-based
ferry operator Shun Tak Holdings Ltd. Also named is a Canadian entity
Eyeball, its subsidiary, Infranet Solutions and their three executives: Chris Piche, Shahadat Khan and David Marwood; and an Antigua-based operator of the website, Carribean Online Ltd.
Denying the charges, Peter Kjaer, the website's chief executive officer and spokesman, said in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, "Eyeball has developed the software for DrHo.com and that software doesn't infringe on HGN's patents.?
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