Mohawks to fight Bodog corner?

Online gambling information portal Gambling911, which has traditionally adopted a strongly supportive stand on Calvin Ayre and his Bodog group, has published an article built on Ayre's blog and the comments of an unidentified Bodog exec which may throw light on the group's strategy on the 1st Technologies patent dispute

The piece is interesting for two reasons:

1) It suggests that the Bodog search engine specialists have succeeded in ameliorating the positioning damage caused by the 1st Technologies case, with "Bodog.com" again high in the results and routing to what it describes as the "temporary" site "New Bodog.com."

2) It indicates the direction in which the Bodog strategy for handling this patent issue may be going, namely:

QUOTE: Ayre has been on the war path this past week announcing to the world that "this battle will be fought on Mohawk territory", alluding to the idea that historically violent Canadian Mohawk Indians had assumed control of the Bodog.com domain name prior to the court ruling.

"The Mohawks aren't exactly known for backing down from a fight (case in point: the Oka Crisis); and they don't exactly take kindly to folks who try to steal from them," Ayre harps in his NewCalvinAyre blog.UNQUOTE

This would seem to suggest that Ayre and his group will claim that the Bodog brands were licensed to the Morris Mohawk group in Kahnawake - a deal that was announced after the patent story broke last week, but which Bodog may be claiming pre-dated the court's ruling which hog-tied its Bodog brands.

The article refers to the provocative entry on the dispute made by Ayre on his personal blog, and to a quote from an unidentified Bodog senior exec who told 911: "Less than two weeks after getting its old domain stolen by Patent Trolls, Bodog is again on top. Bodog has won this battle so far."