Spribe is the company which developed one of the most, if not the most, popular crash games, Aviator. But it seems that the studio is in trouble in Georgia. Aviator LLC, a Tbilisi based company, filed a lawsuit claiming that the name Aviator and an image Spribe used in their crash game were actually their intellectual property.
The Court of First Instance found that trademark and copyright infringements did take place. Spribe was ordered to pay $330 million compensation to Aviator LLC. The name and logo can’t be used by the studio anymore. And the Georgian online casino that has integrated and promoted the game isn’t allowed to use the name and the image anymore.
Aviator LLC claimed that Spribe registered the Aviator trademark despite knowing that another company already owns it. The court agreed with the statement.
