One of the Asian gaming industry’s most infamous legal disputes has reached a major determination in its principal proceedings after Macau’s Judicial Court of First Instance dismissed claims by local supplier LT Game against subsidiaries of Light & Wonder over two disputed electronic table game patents. The finding follows several other recent decisions in which injunctions against Light & Wonder were removed.
In a ruling dated 30 July 2025 but only made public today, presiding judge Chan Chi Weng found that plaintiffs Jay Chun, Natural Noble Limited and LT Game Limited – which sought to impose patent rights over two of its ETG inventions – had failed to satisfy patent requirements against the defendants – Shuffle Master Asia Limited (Macau and Australia), Shuffle Master Inc and SG Jogos Ásia S.A. – because the inventions underlying the patents were deemed obvious to a professional in the field and lacked a sufficient inventive step.
