Spribe has secured another legal victory in its sprawling international dispute with Aviator LLC over rights to the Aviator crash game name.
The Court of First Instance of Curaçao invalidated two Aviator-branded trademark registrations held by Aviator LLC, handing the Georgian game developer a significant win.
Aviator LLC, a Tbilisi-based company, did not appear in the proceedings despite being summoned, resulting in a default judgment against it.
The Curaçao court ruled on 25 May 2026 that Aviator LLC’s local trademark filings should be struck from the register, with a correction issued four days later to fix clerical errors in the registration numbers.
The judgment covers international registration IR 1822051, for the combined word and figurative Aviator mark in classes 9, 28 and 41, and IR 1827771, for the word mark AVIATOR in classes 9, 41 and 42.
Both registrations were made in Aviator LLC’s name during 2024 and had designated Curaçao under the Madrid Protocol.
Spribe told the court the disputed registrations, one originally filed by Rational Intellectual Holdings Limited before being transferred to Aviator LLC in March 2025, had been made without its consent.
Spribe holds an earlier Curaçao registration for the Aviator mark, IR 1759803, granted in August 2023, which underpinned its successful challenge.
The court also ordered Aviator LLC to pay Spribe’s legal costs, set at just over Cg 2,196 (€1,063), plus further costs if the judgment needs formal service.
The Bureau for Intellectual Property in Curaçao has recorded the invalidation as effective from 25 May 2026.
The dispute at the centre of this case involves Aviator LLC, set up by Temur Ugulava, the former owner of the now Flutter-owned Adjarabet business, and its challenge to Spribe’s ownership of the globally recognised Aviator brand.
According to the Curaçao judgment, Aviator LLC is affiliated with Spribe’s former Georgian licensee, also once named Aviator LLC and since renamed AB Georgia LLC, which had been permitted under 2018 and 2021 agreements to operate the Aviator game only in Georgia and Armenia.
The legal battle between the two parties has produced sharply mixed results across different jurisdictions over recent years.
In August 2024, Georgia’s Court of First Instance found that Spribe’s own Georgian trademarks had been registered in bad faith and infringed Aviator LLC’s copyright, awarding Aviator LLC $330m in damages, a decision Georgia’s Supreme Court upheld in May 2025.
Spribe has fared considerably better in the United Kingdom, where the High Court granted an interim injunction in July 2025 stopping Aviator LLC from launching a rival crash game in Britain.
In May 2026, deputy judge Michael Tappin KC handed Spribe a further procedural win, ruling that Georgian court findings could not simply be applied under English law alone.
A full trial on ownership of the Aviator brand is expected in late 2026 or early 2027, meaning the dispute is far from over.
The Curaçao judgment states that Spribe has now lodged more than 120 opposition proceedings worldwide against Aviator LLC’s trademark filings and their national designations.
Aviator LLC has continued its own legal campaign in parallel, confirming in May that it had launched separate legal action against betting operator Betway in South Africa over alleged use of its branding.
