Increasingly sophisticated technology has made casinos the latest hotspot for patent litigation. As gaming companies amass stockpiles of patents, the industry is on its way to becoming the most active filer of patent suits. Due to the fierce competition in the $30 billion-a-year slot machine market, companies not only display a lack of restraint in suing each other; they're also unafraid of bringing in the big guns to take care of their litigation.
October 16, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Charles Verhoeven is not a gambling man. But gambling is what’s keeping the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges patent litigation partner busy these days.
In the last three years, Verhoeven, who claims to be “afraid of gambling” and had not visited Las Vegas since he attended a friend’s bachelor party nearly 10 years ago, has been making biweekly trips to Nevada to represent Bally Technologies Inc. in several patent cases.
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