Spribe has won its latest legal fight after its rival didn’t appear in the proceedings

The Court of First Instance of Curaçao invalidated two Aviator-branded trademark registrations held by Aviator LLC, handing Spribe a win in a dispute that has swung between the two companies across the world.

Spribe, the developer behind the Aviator crash game, won a default judgment against Aviator LLC, a Tbilisi-based company it has been fighting across multiple jurisdictions over rights to the Aviator name.

It comes as Spribe and Aviator LLC – set up by former owner of the now Flutter-owned Adjarabet business, Temur Ugulava – lock horns globally over the IP behind what has become one of the world’s most successful games.

The Curaçao court ruled on 25 May 2026 that Aviator LLC’s local trademark filings should be struck from the register, a decision it corrected 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 were registered in Aviator LLC’s name during 2024 and designated Curaçao under the Madrid Protocol. Aviator LLC did not appear in the proceedings despite being summoned.

The win adds to a mixed run of results for Spribe, in a fight that has spanned the world in recent years.

Global fight over Aviator trademark

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, a decision Georgia’s Supreme Court upheld in May 2025.

The dispute has since spread to the UK, where Spribe has fared better. The UK High Court granted Spribe an interim injunction in July 2025 stopping Aviator LLC from launching a rival crash game in Britain, and in May 2026 deputy judge Michael Tappin KC handed Spribe a 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.

According to the Curaçao judgment, the defendant 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 run the Aviator game only in Georgia and Armenia.

Spribe told the court the disputed Curaçao 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.

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 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 kept up its own campaign too, confirming in May that it had launched separate legal action against betting operator Betway in South Africa over alleged use of its branding.