Light & Wonder: Dragon Train Injunction Unlikely to Move the Needle

The United States District Court of Nevada has granted Aristocrat a preliminary injunction against no-moat Light & Wonder’s Dragon Train game, prohibiting further sales in the US. The case centers around similarities between Light & Wonder’s game and narrow-moat Aristocrat’s highly successful Dragon Link series, including allegations of copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. Specifically, intellectual property and game mechanics, and the role former Aristocrat employees, now at Light & Wonder, had in its development. The court decision finds Aristocrat is “extremely likely to succeed” in demonstrating trade secrets were misappropriated in the development of Dragon Train.