There isn’t really a person alive who relishes admitting failure, but at the same it is a fact of life and you can’t really win ‘em all. The CEO and founder of the Bodog online casinos poker gambling company based out of Costa Rica and Antigua, Calvin Ayre, refuses to admit defeat in the current patent litigation that has made international news because of the vicious and personal nature of Ayre’s many attacks against 1st Technology. And as the case just continues to escalate between the two companies and the two heads of the company, some in the online casinos and U.S. patent industries are opining that it is time for Ayre to pay up and move on.

Ist Technologies has filed a patent lawsuit against the Bodog online casinos poker gambling company last year and was awarded a default judgment when representatives for Bodog did not show up to the hearing. Then followed a enforcement judgment for 1st Technologies that gave the company the main Bodog domain name. And what has ensued from that point forward has involved petty name-calling and personal threats from the Ayre. The intense dispute and debate over the patent issue has many really wondering who is in the right?

The President of the Alliance for American Innovation, Ronald J. Riley, is of the opinion that Ayre is on a losing path and should end the case now by paying the default judgment – at that point the Bodog online casinos poker gambling company would be free of the issue and could focus on other areas – but Ayre is adamant that Bodog is not only in the right, but also that his company is out of the dominion of U.S. patents because he is wholly located outside of the U.S.

Riley notes, I strongly suspect that Ayre thought that his offshore corporate status would protect him against infringement lawsuits and that the default judgment situation is totally his own doing. Unbridled ego can be incredibly expensive.” Riley continues with his opinion on what Ayre should do next to resolve the patent issue, "Frankly, Calvin Ayre appears to have a very poor hand and should know when to hold and when to fold.” Riley also noted that if Ayre continues to press this case in the courts that his online poker gambling company could end up paying more than triple the amount of the initial judgment.