Shuffle Tech International LLC et al. v. Scientific Games Corp. et al.
Shuffle Tech International LLC et al. v. Scientific Games Corp. et al.
1 PagesA federal judge awarded the plaintiff $315 million in an antitrust trial stemming from patent infringement claims. Retained by Nixon & Vanderhye and Freeborn Peters Shuffle Tech, a group of entrepreneurs who invented an automatic card shuffler for card tables, and their partners Poydras-Talrick Holdings LLC and Aces Up Gaming, were sued by SHFL Entertainment Inc. (SHFL). SHFL alleged that Shuffle Tech had violated two of its patents for its automatic shufflers. In an antitrust countersuit brought against Scientific Games Corp. (SGC), one of the world’s largest gambling equipment providers that had acquired SHFL, Shuffle Tech claimed that SHFL’s patents were fraudulent, and that SHFL illegally used those patents to stop Shuffle Tech from entering the market. Shuffle Tech’s counsel retained
