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Sun Nov 22
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10/07/09
10/07/09
I'd get any possible game names you were thinking of using trademarked asap if I were you.
10/07/09
I'm gonna register it when I have the money though, but trademarks are expensive.
10/08/09
@Glaiel-Gamer: I also snagged this candid picture of him
10/07/09
10/07/09
10/07/09
10/07/09
Kotick is a douche and all, but at least he still lets games come out.
Langdell tries to prevent EVERY game with Edge in the title from coming out.
10/07/09
10/08/09
Don't forget the whole "we're dropping Brutal Legend, but we don't want anyone else to publish it either" fiasco.
10/07/09
10/07/09
Soul Edge by Namco.
Not the best solution, but hey - everybody is just going to call it "Edge" anyway.
I mean, Langdell is still a parasite feeding on the under-belly of the gaming industry, but hey: Crisis averted, for now.
10/07/09
10/07/09
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
09/30/09
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
09/29/09
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