SPRIBE has secured a provisional injunction from Malta’s First Hall of the Civil Court ordering three Aviator Studio companies to stop using branding that allegedly infringes its European Union trademarks. The Sept. 1 order names Aviator Studio Limited, Aviator Studio Holding Limited, and Aviator Studio USA Limited, and it covers the use of identical or confusingly similar signs anywhere in the EU.
Two SPRIBE EU trademarks are at the center of it, 018817594 and 018825078, which protect the Aviator logo, the aircraft graphic, and parts of the game’s audiovisual presentation. Aviator Studio also has to stop using aviator.studio or any other website where identical or similar branding promotes related products or services. Breaking the provisional order could bring further penalties.
SPRIBE told the court that Aviator Studio was promoting and commercializing a competing Aviator-branded game in a way likely to confuse players, operators, and commercial partners. The court pointed to the identical name, the similarities between aircraft graphics and audiovisual sequences, and cases where both products showed up together in operator searches. One LuckyStreak listing had also seemingly credited SPRIBE’s game to Aviator Studio.
Aviator Studio Limited currently holds an active B2B Critical Supply Licence from the Malta Gaming Authority for Type 1 casino gaming services. Its ability to distribute games from Malta factored into the court’s assessment, with SPRIBE arguing the company was well placed to push the disputed product across other EU markets.
The Sept. 1 decision was issued ex parte, so the provisional measure went through before Aviator Studio had any chance to contest it in the normal adversarial process. The companies can ask for a review, which means the injunction shouldn’t be read as a final ruling on who owns the Aviator intellectual property. SPRIBE also has to start proceedings on the merits within 31 calendar days for the restrictions to survive into the wider case.
The two sides are already fighting over this brand in several jurisdictions. The UK High Court previously gave SPRIBE interim relief blocking Aviator LLC from launching a competing Aviator-branded crash game in Britain, with the underlying UK proceedings covering competing copyright, trademark, and passing-off claims. A May 2026 High Court judgment confirms Aviator LLC is also challenging SPRIBE’s UK trademarks and asserting copyright claims over the Aviator image.
Brazil has gone the other way in recent months. A federal court suspended the effects of SPRIBE’s Brazilian Aviator trademark registration in June, and a Pernambuco court then revoked an injunction SPRIBE had won against Flutter-owned Betnacional. On Sept. 3, a Brazilian federal court refused SPRIBE’s attempt to change the earlier preliminary ruling, so the suspension stays in place while the wider trademark case runs.
Curaçao has been friendlier territory, with the Court of First Instance invalidating two Aviator LLC trademark registrations in May. SPRIBE has also opposed an Aviator LLC trademark application in Malta itself, where the local register shows it challenging the proposed AVIATOR word mark filed in September 2024.
Aviator Studio keeps asserting that it owns the original Aviator brand, leaning heavily on earlier Georgian court decisions while pursuing claims against SPRIBE in multiple markets. The US is another front, where Aviator Studio USA and Aviator Ltd. filed a federal trademark case in New Jersey in June and SPRIBE came back with counterclaims and a preliminary injunction request of its own.
The Malta ruling gives SPRIBE immediate protection for the disputed branding across the EU while the larger ownership fight stays unresolved. October brings the next major stage of the European dispute in the UK, and Aviator Studio can still challenge the Maltese order and contest SPRIBE’s claims once the case moves from provisional relief to a decision on the merits.