Minority investor in City of Dreams Manila
First Cagayan Leisure and Resort Corp., a subsidiary of Leisure and Resorts World Corp. and a minority investor in Manila’s City of Dreams, will not have to pay the Las Vegas Sands Corp. in a case of copyright and trademark infringement.
According to GGRAsia, the company was one of several dozen sued by the Sands Corp. for illegally trading on its famous name and corporate brands. In a February 2015 judgment, Nevada-based U.S. District Court Judge James C. Mahan vacated the judgment because First Cagayan only learned about it “when it received a call from a journalist asking for a comment on the permanent injunction and money judgment.
“Las Vegas Sands brought this action against the known and unknown registrants of dozens of websites and the websites themselves,” Mahan’s ruling continued. First Cagayan was named as a defendant “because all of the infringing online casino websites identified First Cagayan as the provider of online gaming services.” The total award amounted to $2.15 million.
First Cagayan is the “exclusive master licensor” for the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority, an online gaming jurisdiction in the Philippines, GGRAsia reported. The company has denied any involvement with the Chinese language websites named as its codefendants.
