October 29, 2024
A Delaware federal judge on Tuesday denied DraftKings's $2.3 million fee bid for defeating Interactive Games' suit accusing it of infringing patents related to remote betting, ruling that Interactive Games' case isn't exceptional or frivolous since its patents were presumed valid and there's no evidence that Interactive Games was seeking quick settlements.
June 14, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, the 1983 men's college basketball champions want a piece of the loot the NCAA made off of their names, swimmer Lia Thomas loses in her bid to overturn an international trans athlete ban, and the House gets a bill through committee that would keep college athletes from becoming employees.
June 12, 2024
The fallout from a testy patent dispute over DraftKings' geolocation technology intensified this week as Interactive Games pushed back against the online gambling giant's request for $2.3 million in legal fees in Delaware federal court.
June 07, 2023
A Federal Circuit judge on Wednesday questioned Interactive Games LLC's claim that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board wrongly cited earlier inventions that are "fundamentally at odds" with each other to find an online gambling patent asserted against DraftKings invalid as obvious.
June 17, 2019
A gambling technology company hit DraftKings with another patent suit, this time alleging in Delaware federal court that the daily fantasy sports and betting operator is infringing its patents for software that verifies the age and location of users to ensure they are in a state where the activity is legal.