{"id":14641,"date":"2021-02-12T16:43:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=14641"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:51:14","slug":"macau-scientific-games-loses-patent-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-scientific-games-loses-patent-appeal","title":{"rendered":"Macau: Scientific Games loses patent appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau\u2019s Court of Final Appeal has\u00a0rejected\u00a0an\u00a0appeal over the company&#8217;s patent application for electronic gaming machine technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Seven years after its original request, Scientific Games has <strong>lost its appeal over a patent application<\/strong> for electronic gaming machine (EGM) technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau\u2019s Court of Final Appeal has found that the firm\u2019s patent request <strong>did not fulfil all the required criteria<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patent submitted by Scientific Games described <strong>an EGM that used a dealer station and individual, connected player terminals<\/strong>. However, the city\u2019s Economic and Technological Development Bureau said &#8220;it did not add anything that wasn\u2019t already in use in the gaming industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company filed an appeal which <strong>was first dismissed by Macau\u2019s Court of First Instance<\/strong> and then by the city\u2019s Court of Second Instance in October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years on, Macau\u2019s Court of Final Appeal has now reached the same conclusion, finding that \u201c<strong>the EGM existed long before the\u00a0patent application\u00a0was\u00a0filed.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the company <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/scientific-games-leadership-gaming\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>bolstered its senior management team<\/strong><\/a><\/em> with a number of appointments including former Aristocrat President, Matt Wilson, as executive vice president and group chief executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau\u2019s Court of Final Appeal has\u00a0rejected\u00a0an\u00a0appeal over the company&#8217;s patent application for electronic gaming machine technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's Court of Final Appeal has rejected Scientific Games' patent application for electronic gaming machine (EGM) technology, seven years after its initial submission. The court upheld previous rulings that the described EGM, featuring a dealer station and connected player terminals, did not present novel technology already in use within the gaming industry. This decision impacts Scientific Games' intellectual property portfolio and innovation strategy within the EGM vertical.","focusai_entities":"Scientific Games, Macau's Court of Final Appeal, Economic and Technological Development Bureau, Macau's Court of First Instance, Macau's Court of Second Instance, Aristocrat, Matt Wilson","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), compliance_legal (0.95), product_ux (0.8), tech_data (0.85), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.95), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on SG's IP Strategy?","query":"What are the broader implications of this patent rejection for Scientific Games' intellectual property strategy and future R&D investments in the EGM vertical?"},{"label":"Macau Patent Precedent?","query":"Does this ruling establish a new precedent for patentability criteria for gaming technology within Macau's legal framework, particularly concerning 'novelty'?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14672,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641\/revisions\/14672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}