A jury in Clark County has awarded a small design company a $ 20 million judgment from Caesars Entertainment for disturbing its ability to take its products to a large market.
Sam Johnson, the Atlanta-based principal of Tipping Point Gaming LLC, said in an interview that he thought he had an ideal partner when he reached a multi-year agreement with Caesar’s Enterprise Service LLC daughter’s company to what is now the Reno-based casino giant. Johnson said he had 60 patents associated with his products.
Taking point produced a Slot-Machine side variation product similar to popular investments for table games and collaborated with Caesars to make it the proven soil for other tipping-produced systems.
Side games are additional bets that can be made through a game.
“We went in with Caesars as we developed this product and relied on them to distribute it to help us make a market,” Johnson said.
Johnson said that Caesars was so enthusiastic with the point that it offered to buy Johnson 2016, an opportunity he was excited about.
But the relationship came when Caesar’s accused Tipping Point of not securing the right to use licensed intangible property in its products.
Caesars Enterprise Services submitted a violation of contracts in Clark County District Court against Tipping Point 2018. The tipping point then counted Caesars.
A judge in Clark County decided in Caesar’s advantage, but Tipping Point appealed to Nevada’s Supreme Court and won an attempt when the Supreme Court arrested the case back to Clark County in June 2024.
On April 11, the jury agreed to award Tipping Point $ 15 million in compensation injuries based on proof that Caesars intentionally disturbed a transaction involving Tipping Point’s Planet Bingo transaction. The jury also awarded $ 5 million in penalty injuries.
A representative of Caesars said it has a policy not to comment in anticipation of litigation and that Clark County District Court Joe Joe Hardy Jr. has not yet certified the verdict.
But Tipping Point, who went out into business during the Covid-19-shutdown, and Johnson celebrates the verdict and characterizes it as winning a David-and-Goliat collision.
“We finally got our day in court for the jury to decide and that’s how our system works,” Johnson said. “I was pleased that we prevailed in the interference claim that Caesars consciously and harmfully disturbed Tipping Point’s future business and to find Caesar’s responsible for penalty damage as well.”
Johnson believes that Tipping Point offered game change technology for the gaming industry that was never delivered.
“We would definitely have transformed the industry,” he said. “But when Caesar’s intentionally related Tipping Point’s intangible property, instead of Caesars being the market creator Tipping Point, relied on, Caesars prevented a market from ever being made. I am grateful that Caesar’s disturbances with the success of tipping, their supplier, finally confirmed.
Contact Richard N. Velotta at rvelotta@ theplayerlounge.com or 702-477-3893. Follow @rickvelotta at X.
