December 17, 2018
About four months after getting dealt a $105 million verdict with trebled damages, Scientific Games Corp. has agreed to pay Shuffle Tech LLC $151 million to settle claims it used sham patent litigation to keep control of the automatic card shuffler market.
November 02, 2018
Shuffle Tech LLC has asked an Illinois federal judge for more than $19 million in attorneys' fees after a jury awarded the card shuffler maker $315 million on its claims that a competitor initiated sham patent litigation to shut it out of the market.
August 07, 2018
An Illinois federal judge tripled a jury’s $105 million award to $315 million Tuesday, following the panel’s verdict for Shuffle Tech LLC and three other companies who accused Scientific Games Corp. of initiating sham litigation to assert invalid patents and keep its automatic card-shuffler competition out of the market.
August 06, 2018
Shuffle Tech LLC's counsel urged a federal jury Monday not to buy into the idea that its CEO is a "loser and a liar" when it comes to his company, saying he is actually a victim and Scientific Games Corp.'s characterization was "just the arrogance of a monopolist and their attorneys."
July 16, 2018
"It doesn't matter" that Scientific Games Corp.'s subsidiary didn't show the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office prior art in patent applications for its Deckmate card shuffler because the prior art was not objected to when it was disclosed in other applications, the company said Monday at the opening of a rival's antitrust trial against it.
July 05, 2018
Scientific Games Inc. told an Illinois federal judge on Thursday that its rival Shuffle Tech International LLC is proposing an unnecessary and "unduly prejudicial" instruction ahead of their trial this month over Shuffle Tech's claim the gaming technology company unlawfully cornered the electronic card-shuffler market.
April 23, 2018
Settlement talks fell though Monday in an antitrust suit alleging a Las Vegas gambling equipment company illegally monopolized the market for electronic card-shuffling machines.
September 06, 2017
An Illinois federal judge has denied Scientific Games Corp.'s attempt to toss Shuffle Tech International LLC's remaining claim in an antitrust suit accusing Scientific of perpetrating a years-long fraud that let it illegally monopolize the card shuffler industry, saying another judge's ruling in a related case didn't support Scientific's bid.
May 16, 2017
Scientific Games Corp. on Monday asked an Illinois federal judge to exclude the opinion of an expert witness in an automatic card-shuffling company's antitrust suit claiming the gaming technology company tried to defraud the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, arguing that the expert's opinions are not relevant.
March 27, 2017
Scientific Games Corp. and Bally Technologies Inc. asked an Illinois federal judge on Friday to dismiss a card shuffling company's antitrust claims that the pair tried to defraud the patent office, saying another court already found their patent claims had a sufficient legal basis.