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It seems that Full Tilt Poker’s patents on Rush Poker are being challenged. While challenges to intellectual property patents are nothing out of the ordinary (especially with the years-long process involved in being issued a patent) but what is out of the ordinary is that the Full Tilt Poker patent of Rush Poker is not being challenged by PokerStars or Party Poker, but instead by the mobile poker provider InstaDeal.

InstaDeal is not only challenging the patent, but they have also unveiled their own version of Rush Poker; a fast-paced version of poker where players are put into a large pool and randomly sent to different tables as soon as they fold their hand.

Full Tilt Poker was extremely adamant from the outset that they would pursue legal action against any infringement on their pending Rush Poker patent, but InstaDeal’s CEO, Per Hildebrand (the former CEO of the Entraction Poker Network), has claimed that the legal advice he was given points to Full Tilt Poker’s chances for receiving a patent on Rush Poker slim at best, saying Full Tilt poker had only met one of the three requirements to receive a patent. “From that time on we were confident they were never going to get a patent for it and so we felt it was safe to start moving forward with InstaDeal,” Hildebrand was quoted as saying by the website PokerNewsReport.com.

With the site in turmoil after Black Friday it is extremely unlikely that Full Tilt Poker has the capability to mount a defense against InstaDeal, and if Hildebrand’s attorney’s are correct the only thing it would do is bleed money from both company’s coffers. If the Full Tilt Poker deal with Groupe Bernard Tapie does go through then the new Full Tilt may in fact try to protect one of its babies in Rush Poker.

For more on InstaDeal you can check out this article that appears on their website: Instant Gratification