Sue Dawson

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Professional Summary — Sue (Susan) Dawson

Practice focus and role. Dawson is not a firm-based patent litigator; she is the in-house Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Light & Wonder, Inc. (formerly Scientific Games Corp.), the Las Vegas–based gaming content and gaming-machine supplier. Her single tracked appearance is as an officer of the corporate defendant, which means she appears in the litigation in her executive capacity rather than as counsel of record. Her subject-matter exposure by virtue of her employer centers on gaming technology — land-based and online/iGaming game content, game platforms, table games, and the software and math-model implementations behind them, rather than Wi-Fi standards, pharma, or mechanical arts. The one tracked matter, Evolution Malta Ltd. v. Light & Wonder, Inc., concerns roulette game patents and trade secrets (the "Lightning Roulette" math files) — i.e., software/gaming-platform subject matter.

Side preference. On the authoritative case list she appears only on the defendant side (0 plaintiff, 0 defendant-appellant/plaintiff-side appearances), and only as chief legal officer. That is consistent with the profile of a defendant-company legal executive who oversees and directs defense of claims against the operating business; there is no indication of NPE/PAE prosecution work or of her appearing as trial counsel on either side.

Firm context. Dawson has spent her entire verifiable corporate tenure at one company: she joined Scientific Games (now Light & Wonder) in September 2012, served as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel from 2018 — most recently for the iGaming business — and succeeded James Sottile as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary effective December 31, 2025. She was UK-based in Warwick, England, and relocated to Las Vegas with the promotion. The company bio states she previously worked at "top tier law firms and large private and public gaming organizations" over a 25-plus-year career, but specific prior firms are not identified in reliably citable public sources, so I have not named any.

Notable matter, PTAB exposure, and credentials. In Evolution Malta Ltd. v. Light & Wonder, Inc., No. 2:24-cv-00993-CDS-NJK (D. Nev.), Evolution sued Light & Wonder in May 2024 asserting the Haushalter patents (U.S. 10,629,024; 11,011,014; 11,756,371) plus later-acquired Merati patents (9,905,074; 11,783,663), along with DTSA/Nevada trade secret claims. The district court dismissed the patent claims under 35 U.S.C. § 101 (Feb. 2025, without prejudice; ultimately with prejudice per the March 2026 amended order), and the trade secret counts were ordered to arbitration under the parties' ICC agreement — outcomes favorable to her company and adverse to the patent owner. Parallel to that case, Light & Wonder petitioned for IPR on the three Haushalter patents (IPR2025-01072, -01073, -01078); after the district court's invalidity ruling, the Director sua sponte initiated Director Review, vacated institution, and denied the IPRs (June 22, 2026), a precedential decision that also extended the Director Review deadline for institution decisions from 14 to 30 days. Note that the IPRs and district court advocacy were handled by outside counsel (Jones Day for Light & Wonder, Sidley Austin for Evolution) — the publicly documented PTAB practice belongs to those firms, not to Dawson personally, and I found no record of her appearing in IPR/PGR proceedings in her own name.

Bar / education. She holds a law degree from Nottingham Law School (Nottingham, England), consistent with a UK-qualified solicitor background; I could not verify a U.S. state bar admission from a reliable source, and no bar admission should be assumed.