UK Court Ruling: Spribe's Interim Injunction Isn't a Legal Victory

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The UK High Court has granted an interim injunction favoring SPRIBE, preventing Aviator LLC from launching or marketing its crash-style game in the UK for now. Crucially, this measure is merely procedural and does not reflect a judgment on the merits of the dispute.

A Temporary Measure, Not a Ban

According to Aviator LLC’s legal representative, Nikoloz Gogilidze, the injunction doesn’t reflect a substantive legal victory for SPRIBE. Instead, it simply preserves the existing state of affairs. Aviator LLC had not planned to enter the UK market, had not formed a UK entity, nor applied for a gambling licence. This temporary order merely prevents activity that was not scheduled to occur and will remain in effect only until the full trial addresses the actual claims.

Gogilidze states “SPRIBE has succeeded in securing an order preventing Aviator LLC from doing what it wasn’t doing anyway. A remarkable 'victory' indeed."

SPRIBE, by contrast, has seized the moment, portraying the injunction as a sweeping win, conflating an interim block with a decision on the merits. But Aviator LLC insists that’s misleading marketing.

Georgia: A Final Court Ruling in Aviator’s Favor

Meanwhile, in Georgia, the Supreme Court has delivered a decisive legal victory for Aviator LLC. On 20 May 2025, it dismissed SPRIBE’s appeal as inadmissible, upholding previous rulings that SPRIBE had registered trademarks in bad faith and violated Aviator LLC’s copyright  . That earlier ruling had already awarded Aviator LLC around $330 million in damages.

Aviator LLC has also escalated its fight for its intellectual property in other forums, filing invalidation actions against SPRIBE’s EU trademarks at the EUIPO, and licensing its IP exclusively to Aviator Studio globally.

Aviator LLC issued their own press release, which can be read below:

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