Gaming equipment maker Paradise Entertainment Ltd. announced yesterday that its patent fight with American gaming machine maker SHFL Entertainment Inc. is officially over following the dismissal of the main lawsuit on Tuesday. In October 2012, SHFL’s local subsidiary – SHFL Entertainment (Asia) Ltd. – filed an injunction that sought to prevent Paradise and its units from claiming a monopoly in the Macau market on a patent claimed by Paradise’s LT Game Ltd. for technology in a multi-gaming electronic table gaming product featuring a live dealer. The case was dismissed by the local Court of First Instance in 2013, whilst the Court of Second Instance rejected the American machine marker’s appeal against the lower court’s decision in 2014. ‘The main lawsuit in relation to the violation of the Macau registered Patents I/150 and I/380 was dismissed on 3 May 2016 after SHFL Macau withdrew its claim against the Respondents,’ Paradise said in yesterday’s filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It added that SHFL was ordered to pay court fees relating to the court case. In 2013, SHFL Entertainment Inc. was acquired by Bally Technologies Inc. and the two gaming machine manufacturers officially merged the following year.
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