SPRIBE and Aviator LLC are fighting over the Aviator name in courtrooms across the world, and the latest one to rule sits in Curaçao. The Court of First Instance there invalidated two trademarks registered by the Georgian company, handing SPRIBE a win that comes with a significant asterisk: Aviator LLC never showed up, so the judgment was entered by default rather than after a contested trial.
The scale of the wider conflict is visible in the judgment itself, which states that SPRIBE has filed more than 120 oppositions worldwide against Aviator LLC trademark applications and their national registrations. Aviator LLC is running its own cases across multiple markets at the same time. Curaçao is one front among many, and far from the biggest.
On that front, at least, the details are settled. The ruling came on May 25, with clerical errors in the registration numbers corrected four days later, and it canceled two international registrations designating Curaçao, both made in 2024: one for the combined Aviator word and figurative mark in classes 9, 28, and 41, and one for the AVIATOR word mark in classes 9, 41, and 42. Since Aviator LLC had been summoned and never partcipated, the court granted SPRIBE’s request in full, ordered the marks struck from the local register, and put just over Cg 2,196, roughly €1,060, in legal costs on Aviator LLC. The local intellectual property office recorded the invalidations as effective from May 25.
SPRIBE could bring the challenge because it holds an older Aviator registration in Curaçao, from August 2023, and it argued the later registrations were made without its consent. One of the two had a paper trail of its own, initially filed by Rational Intellectual Holdings and only transferred to Aviator LLC in March 2025. Control of the disputed marks in Curaçao now belongs to SPRIBE, though nothing in the ruling touches the underlying question of who owns the Aviator branding internationally.
Georgia answered that question, and answered it badly for SPRIBE. A 2024 ruling found the company’s local Aviator trademarks were registered in bad faith and infringed copyright claimed by Aviator LLC, with the same litigation producing an award of roughly $330 million against SPRIBE and Flutter-owned Adjarabet. Flutter called the amount excessive and disputed the basis of the claim, but the appeals went nowhere: Georgia’s Court of Appeal upheld the trademark ruling, and the Supreme Court dismissed SPRIBE’s final appeal as inadmissible on May 20, 2025. Aviator LLC now carries those Georgian decisions into trademark challenges elsewhere, although no foreign court is required to follow them.
Britain is where SPRIBE has been holding its ground. An interim High Court injunction from 2025 blocks Aviator LLC from launching or marketing a competing Aviator-branded crash game in the UK while the case runs, a temporary measure that SPRIBE publicly presented as a victory and Aviator LLC was quick to reframe as no ruling on ownership at all. Then, in May 2026, Deputy Judge Michael Tappin KC refused to carve the ownership question out for separate treatment and ruled that the effect of the Georgian judgments on foreign copyright claims must be assessed under each relevant country’s laws, not resolved wholesale under English law. Who owns the copyright, and whether SPRIBE infringed anything, the court explicitly left undecided. The full UK trial is expected in late 2026 or early 2027.
Until then, the scoreboard reads however each side wants it to. SPRIBE has erased two rival registrations in Curaçao and kept a competing UK launch off the market before trial; Aviator LLC holds the only substantial final judgment, and it’s worth $330 million. With more than 120 trademark challenges still open, one of online casino’s most recognizable names remains, legally speaking, up for grabs.