Penn iGaming App Tagged with Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Posted on: December 14, 2025, 08:00h.
Last updated on: December 13, 2025, 09:19h.
- Regional casino operator and its digital unit were hit with suit.
- Single Action Bet Tech says gaming company infringed on two of its patents.
- Plaintiff provides tech that makes betting actions more efficient.
Penn Entertainment’s (NASDAQ: PENN) Hollywood Casino mobile application is the target of a new a patent infringement suit.
Single Action Bet Tech LLC filed the suit Friday in US District Court for the District of New Jersey, alleging Penn and its Penn Interactive unit, which includes the iGaming app, infringed on two of its patents. In simple terms, the plaintiff’s patent-protected technology takes a multi-step bet and consolidates it into step, allowing bettors to place wager more efficiently and rapidly.
The device and method of the present invention configures a gaming device to have an improved data input key set to facilitate the players wagering activity according to one or more wagering systems such as Martingale, Anti-Martingale and others. The device and method can also configure a processor to detect wagering according a system and thereafter display the suggested next wager according to the system,” according to a Google Patents description of Single Action Bet Tech’s patents.
The patent suit arrives at a time when technology is an increasingly important part of the lexicon for internet casino and online sportsbook operators.
Single Action Bet Tech Offers Compelling Technology
In mobile gaming, whether it’s iGaming or sports wagering, efficiency and speed are critical. Said another way, the fewer steps a bettor has to engage in to place a wager, the more likely they are to be a sticky customer.
Likewise, relevant enabling technology is beneficial to operators because it positions customers to place generators, potentially boosting hold and revenue in the process. Those are among the factors indicating why the single-touch action purveyed by Single Action Bet Tech is compelling and could be mimicked.
Typically, bettors select a wager amount, place the wager, confirm, and begin the game in the case of internet casinos. The more steps the customer must engage in, the higher the likelihood is they won’t move forward with the bet.
“Typical mobile games that accept real-money betting today (a few exist in Europe and a few other countries) require the user to use multiple clicks (or touches) to: a) Select a bet amount b) place their bet; and/or c) begin the game,” according to background on one of the plaintiff’s patents. “These multiple clicks may cause the user to become uninterested or unwilling to place the bet, especially on a mobile device in which it is more difficult to click/touch on the proper portion of the user interface screen.”
Translation: A wagering action that often take three or four steps can be boiled down to one by Single Action Bet Tech.
iGaming Important in Penn Equation
At the start of this month, Penn rolled out its new theScore Bet mobile app, replacing ESPN Bet. That’s widely viewed by analysts as a smart move and one that will result in the operator focusing more on the Hollywood Casino app, which delivered better growth and market share results than ESPN Bet.
Sports betting will no long be a point of emphasis, but it will be used as a customer acquisition tool and funnel for the operator’s on-the-rise iGaming platform.
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