The Georgia Lottery's biggest gaming vendor filed suit this week accusing a former employee of stealing thousands of electronic files that it said could be worth millions of dollars in trade secrets to a rival company.
Scientific Games International Inc., which has offices in Alpharetta, has asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent anyone from using what it says is proprietary gaming and financial information. It has also asked the judge to ban a former vice president, Brian Keith Cash, from working with a competitor, International Game Technology PLC, for the next three years.
According to the civil suit, Cash resigned from Scientific Games earlier this month to work for IGT in a similar executive position. Both companies develop games for Georgia's billion-dollar lottery, although Scientific Games has been with Georgia since the lottery's 1993 founding and recently signed a seven-year extension of its current "instant games" contract with the state.
IGT per policy declined to comment on the suit.
In a statement Friday, Scientific Games indicated Cash was one of two longtime senior executives who it believes took trade secrets and other confidential information when they recently left the company.
“Unauthorized access or use of our intellectual property, trade secrets, contracts, sales and marketing plans, data files or any other non-public or confidential information is unacceptable,” the company said. “As a publicly traded company, this cannot and will not be tolerated. Scientific Games will continue to pursue all legal remedies available to us.”
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