The long Macau patent litigation between the former SHFL Entertainment and Paradise Entertainment Ltd.’s LT Game subsidiary officially ended last week when the Macau division of Scientific Games, formerly SHFL Macau, withdrew its last legal claim against the Macau patents of LT Game for hybrid live-dealer table games.
The litigation grew from LT Game’s claim of exclusive rights in Macau to multi-player electronic table games using live dealers, under two registered Macau patents. LT Game had enforced its patents most famously at the G2E Asia show in Macau, where SHFL Entertainment was forced to cover the live-dealer e-table products at its booth.
SHFL Macau had filed a lawsuit in Macau seeking an injunction to prevent Paradise from claiming a monopoly on the Macau market. The request was rejected by the local Court of First Instance, and that decision was upheld on appeal.
Last week, SHFL Macau withdrew its claim against Paradise, which said in a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that SHFL Macau was ordered to pay court fees related to the case.
The former Bally Technologies acquired SHFL in 2013, and Scientific Games acquired Bally a year later.
