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Ameranth: United States Patent and Trademark Office Confirms Strategic Gaming/Poker Patent 'Casino Poker and Dealer Management System'Mar 08, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Ameranth, Inc. announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office confirmed in Reexamination No. 95/001698 the validity of 27 claims of Ameranth's strategic gaming patent (U.S. Pat. No. 7,431,650) titled "Casino Poker and Dealer Management System." According to a release, the confirmation of the validity of this key strategic patent confirms Ameranth's role in automating casinos overall and enabling the automation of the modern poker room. Ameranth's 7,431,650 patent includes confirmed valid claims which broadly cover a system encompassing virtually all critical operations of the modern poker room - including player seating, public displays, tournaments, dealer rotation/tracking, player tracking (at room level or at/or from poker tables), security, wireless/internet connections, interfaces to at the table shuffling machines and many other key aspects of the modern poker room. Ameranth filed its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on February 2, 2011 (asserting infringement of U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,431,650 and 7,878,909) against defendants including Genesis Gaming Solutions, Inc., IT Casino Solutions, Hollywood Park Casino, Inc., California Commerce Club, Inc. and Normandie Club, and later added Hustler Casino as an additional defendant. Subsequently, Hollywood Park Casino and Normandie Club (as well as others) took licenses to Ameranth's patents. "We are very excited that the United States Patent Office has confirmed the validity of our strategic poker room automation patent," said Vern Yates, Ameranth's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We were confident of success and knew that the defendants' attempt to invalidate this industry leading and breakthrough patent would fail, which it did. We will be offering licenses to this technology for the companies and casinos/poker rooms employing it or seeking to employ it." More company information: www.ameranth.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) |