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09/30/09
Educated commentators have known that there was something fishy about Langdell's trademarks, and how he obtained many of them, for some time. Indeed, EA's brief makes very interesting reading from start to finish on this very point. There are substantial discrepancies that go right to the heart of how Edge won some of their trademarks, and EA's lawyers clearly intend to drive a train right through them.
Unfortunately, Tim Langdell has nobody to blame but himself. Judging from many different sources of information he is not a nice person to deal with and has issues paying his bills, explaining why he decided to skip the UK for the US after a British court ordered him to pay two former employees money they were owed by him.
By all accounts Edge Games is a one-person operation, with that one person being Tim Langdell himself. How exactly he is intending to fund a decent legal team, especially when he is facing EA's high-powered attorneys, is anyone's guess.
EA's conversion from villain to hero is almost achieved. If they can manage to take down Tim Langdell once and for all then I believe it will be complete.
10/01/09
09/30/09
Things don't hit critical mass until they have the slightest idea how to wave the law around to dick people over legally.
It's one thing for a faceless corporation to defend reasonable patents/trademarks due to legal obligation, but it's another for an individual to register generic trademarks so they can hunt and take down easy prey.
Yes, this can partially be blamed on the USPTO and the whole system in general for being imperfect, but this is not a story of an innocent guy defending himself against a world who keeps trying to use his word in games related media. This is a story of a total prick who does this kind of thing to satisfy his lifestyle and mistakenly thinks within his bubble that he is the good guy.
If they manage to get his trademarks revoked it would be excellent on the level of disbarring you know who.
09/30/09
09/30/09
Was swapped over to the Mirror's Edge picture a few minutes afterwards.
09/29/09
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09/30/09
I would object, however, if I decided to make a game called Apple Tree, and then got sued because it has the word "apple" in it even though it clearly has nothing to do with the company.
09/30/09
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09/30/09
Langdell is very much a bully, and has been ripping off legitimate developers for years.
There's even cases where, back in the day, people submitted C64 games to Edge / Softek for appraisal and then the next thing they know Langdell has duplicated and is selling their game on the shelves with no approval from the developer, no contract, no licensing or anything!
Langdell is a crook, a con-man, a liar, a perjuror and, let's face it, a cunt.
09/29/09
09/29/09
The
For
2
3
War
Wars
Grand
Life
By trademarking those words, you'll be king of the game industry.
In other news, Langdell should be trademarked by EA, so they can make a shooting gun with him as a target. It's trademarked!
09/30/09
I plan to trademark the use of the English Language in game titling.
"You there! Your game has an English title! GIVE ME MONEY!"
09/29/09
09/30/09
EA's trying to prevent it happening, presumably so they can market Mirror's Edge 2 without harrassment. (I can't remember if he gave them any beef over the original Mirror's Edge, but there's certainly many others he's sued for similar things)
09/29/09
I'm with ya' EA, I'm with ya'!
09/30/09
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09/30/09
Either that or escape the arena with them in a stolen jeep, torching it as you leave.
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09/29/09
ZING!
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09/29/09
[www.langdellbrown.com]
09/29/09
My brain is exploding, not only at the concept of putting a patent on Edge, but also for Langdell's determination in suing everybody who uses Edge. Why the hell is it so important to him? Would it really devalue his product?
And again--How the hell can you trademark an English word? ... *sigh* ...
09/29/09