Spribe wins temporary injunction against Aviator LLC in the UK
The copyright battle is due to go to trial next year.
UK.- Spribe has won an injunction from the High Court of England in its copyright battle witih Aviator LLC over the Aviator crash game. The move will prevent the latter from being able to launch a similar game in the UK before the case goes to trial, which is expected to be late next year or early in 2027.
Aviator has said that it was unlikely to be able to launch before the trial anyway since it would need approval from the British Gambling Commission, but judge Anthony Mann granted a temporary injunction on the matter.
In its native Georgia, Aviator won a case against Spribe in which it claimed the provider had infringed on its copyright and trademarks by distributing its own Aviator game with a similar logo. It also reached a settlement with Flutter, which had distributed Spribe’s Aviator game.
Aviator LLC lodged a copyright infringement claim at the High Court of England in the same month, arguing that the plane and imagery in Spribe’s game are similar to its own and calling for Spribe’s request to trademark the Aviator name to be rejected.
Spribe lodged a counterclaim in April. It alleges that Aviator’s proposed game “blatantly infringes the copyright works which Spribe owns and seeks to misappropriate the goodwill which Spribe has created in its Aviator brand”. It also claimed that Aviator had submitted contradictory evidence and attempted to mislead the court by “obscuring its role through the creation of a shifting network of licensing entities”.
Spribe is represented by Bird & Bird and Aviator by Hogarth Chambers.
