The first rejection dates back to December 7, 2008. players, and Full Tilt Poker agreed, in its own settlement with the United States, to assign its intellectual property to Pokerstars.Īt the time of this settlement, the original claims of the '573 application had been repeatedly rejected by the original patent examiner as being obvious over previously filed applications covering methods of assigning game players to new game tables.

Part of Pokerstars' $731 Million forfeiture payment to the United States was earmarked to pay balances owed by Full Tilt Poker to non-U.S. Pokerstars obtained the rights to the '573 application as part of its Jsettlement agreement with the United States Department of Justice, resolving civil money laundering and forfeiture claims arising from Pokerstars' operation of online gambling websites in the United States. A patent entitled 'Computer Gaming Device and Method for Computer Gaming' will issue on May 20, 2014, as U.S. In a surprising turn of events, after multiple decisive rejections, Pokerstars' 'Zoom Poker' patent application (11/316,573, published as US 2007/0155460A1) has been allowed as amended by the United States Patent and Trademark Office ('USPTO').

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