Light & Wonder today provided an update regarding its ongoing litigation with Aristocrat in the U.S. District Court of Nevada.

On March 14, 2025, Aristocrat filed a second amended complaint with the District Court of Nevada, adding a trade secret misappropriation claim against Jewel of the Dragon. The initial claims concerning Jewel of the Dragon did not include a claim for trade secret misappropriation. We intend to respond to the second amended complaint by April 11, 2025.

In the latest complaint, Aristocrat has also raised new issues, which we intend to vigorously defend against.

First, Aristocrat asserts that replacement games for Dragon Train, including Dragon Train Grand Central, a social game we have released, would “reap the benefits” of trade secret misappropriation even if none of the claimed trade secrets are used in such games.

There are many elements of Dragon Train that made it successful and that are not contested by Aristocrat. We have structured development of new games to solve the issue raised by Emma Charles’ use of certain math in the design of Dragon Train.

We have been and will continue to be transparent with the courts and Aristocrat on the process to ensure that new games do not contain any of Aristocrat’s claimed trade secrets or confidential information. We followed that process with our new social game, Dragon Train Grand Central. We provided the math to Aristocrat in advance of the launch of the game.

Aristocrat has made no claim with respect to the Dragon Train Grand Central math, and we are confident the same will be true for our Dragon Train replacement land-based game that is in development.
Second, Aristocrat’s complaint also refers to emails sent by Emma Charles, the game designer of Dragon Train, to other team members at L&W that were provided to Aristocrat as part of the discovery process.

We remain steadfast in our commitment to continued R&D investment to further develop our catalog of proven, evergreen franchises. The broad uplift in game performance we’ve experienced across our portfolio is a testament to the quality of the talent and culture in our organization. We are extremely proud to have a robust and diversified portfolio of the best products in the market that gives us a competitive advantage not tied to any one game or franchise. We are grateful to our customers and stakeholders for their unwavering support as we continue to execute to strategy.

Aristocrat originally made claims with respect to two Light &Wonder games in its complaint filed on February 26, 2024, a trade secret misappropriation claim on Dragon Train and trade dress, copyright infringement and related claims on Jewel of the Dragon. In its first amended complaint filed in July 2024, Aristocrat added references to trade dress issues relating to Dragon Unleashed Link.