WILLEMSTAD – The Court of First Instance of Curaçao has invalidated two Aviator-branded trademark registrations held by Aviator LLC, handing game developer Spribe a victory in an international legal battle over the rights to the Aviator name.
Spribe, the developer behind the popular Aviator crash game, obtained a default judgment against Aviator LLC, a Tbilisi-based company with which it has been fighting trademark and intellectual property disputes in several jurisdictions.
The Curaçao court ruled on May 25, 2026 that two trademark registrations belonging to Aviator LLC should be removed from the local register. Four days later, the court corrected clerical errors concerning the registration numbers in its judgment.
The ruling concerns international registration IR 1822051, covering a combined word and figurative Aviator trademark in classes 9, 28 and 41, and IR 1827771, covering the AVIATOR word mark in classes 9, 41 and 42.
Both trademarks were registered in Aviator LLC’s name during 2024 and designated Curaçao through the Madrid international trademark system.
According to the judgment, Aviator LLC did not appear in the Curaçao proceedings despite having been summoned.
Spribe Claims Earlier Rights
Spribe argued that the disputed trademarks were registered without its permission.
One of the registrations was originally filed by Rational Intellectual Holdings Limited before being transferred to Aviator LLC in March 2025.
Spribe, meanwhile, holds an earlier Curaçao registration for the Aviator trademark, IR 1759803, which was granted in August 2023.
According to the Curaçao judgment, Aviator LLC is affiliated with Spribe’s former Georgian licensee, which was also previously known as Aviator LLC but has since been renamed AB Georgia LLC.
Under agreements dating from 2018 and 2021, that company had been authorized to operate the Aviator game only in Georgia and Armenia.
The Bureau for Intellectual Property in Curaçao has recorded the invalidation of Aviator LLC’s two registrations as effective from May 25, 2026.
The court also ordered Aviator LLC to pay Spribe’s legal costs of slightly more than Cg 2,196, approximately €1,063, with additional costs possible if formal service of the judgment is required.
Legal Battle Spans Several Countries
The Curaçao decision represents the latest development in a much larger international dispute in which both sides have secured victories.
Aviator LLC achieved a major victory in Georgia in August 2024 when the Court of First Instance there concluded that Spribe’s Georgian trademarks had been registered in bad faith and infringed Aviator LLC’s copyright. The court awarded Aviator LLC $330 million in damages.
Georgia’s Supreme Court upheld that decision in May 2025.
Spribe has achieved more favorable results in the United Kingdom. In July 2025, the UK High Court issued an interim injunction preventing Aviator LLC from launching a competing crash game in Britain.
Another procedural ruling followed in May 2026, when a UK judge determined that findings made by Georgian courts could not simply be applied under English law without further examination.
A full UK trial concerning ownership of the Aviator brand is expected in late 2026 or early 2027.
More Than 120 Trademark Challenges
The scale of the dispute extends well beyond Curaçao, Georgia and the United Kingdom.
According to the Curaçao judgment, Spribe has filed more than 120 opposition proceedings worldwide challenging trademark applications and national designations associated with Aviator LLC.
Aviator LLC is pursuing legal action of its own in other jurisdictions. In May, the company announced separate proceedings against betting operator Betway in South Africa over the alleged use of Aviator branding.
The Curaçao ruling therefore does not resolve the wider international dispute over ownership of the Aviator intellectual property. It does, however, eliminate two Aviator LLC trademark registrations in Curaçao and gives Spribe an important local victory in a legal battle that continues across multiple countries.