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[AniHawk]

Oh, here it is:

So yeah, it's been changed since then so it's not such a blatant ripoff.

 

[poweld]

http://www.the--edge.com/edgegames/mobigame.htm

:lol

I... I can't believe he's claiming an actual game named Mirrors (by Edge). I thought it was a joke.

I think this man must have some rather critical psychological defects.

 

[CultureClearance]

Rut Roh

 

[Uncle]

Did this guy ever work for Monster Cable?

 

[poweld]

The bias and trend toward defamation in reporting continues with Kotaku adding the fact of the Fuzzyeye's statement to their piece wrongly accusing Dr Langdell in"Trademark Troll Is At It Again" but failing to alter their defamatory article -- or its title -- despite proof they were wrong. And then in the reader comments to their article "Tim Langdell Defends Himself in Open Letter to Mobigame" Kotaku just removed most of the positive comments that were being made about Edge/Langdell, leaving almost solely only the ones critical of Edge/ Langdell.

Yup, delusional and paranoid: confirmed.

 

[dalyr95]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-edge-of-reason

The move to the sunnier climes of Los Angeles brought with it more than an alleged windfall from Commodore. From 1990, perhaps realising what a valuable and wide-ranging trademark it had at its disposal, The Edge's primary business shifted from publishing videogames to vigorously pursuing companies whose products it believed infringed 'The Edge' mark.

From Namco's PlayStation release Soul Edge (which had its name changed to Soul Blade for the West) to Sony's PlayStation Edge to the UK's own Edge magazine, Langdell confronted anyone who used his trademark in relation to videogames. In every case the message was clear: change the name of your product, pay us a licence fee or face a court hearing. Some paid the fee quietly. Others, faced with legal threats that they believed were dubious, turned the tables and instead took The Edge to court. No matter what the outcome of these cases, Langdell's energy in protecting his trademark never faltered, even if the trickle of games that bore the name had long since dried up.

Even EDGE magazine has to pay him royalties for the name

 

[Fimbulvetr]

You can't patent names can you?

Let me put it this way, the word "death" is patentable.

Somebody needs to regulate this shit more properly. :/

Oh, here it is:

So yeah, it's been changed since then so it's not such a blatant ripoff.

"Masters of the Game Since 1979" :lol

 

[Jay Sosa]

I still can't get over the fact that you can copyright a word. I mean WTF?

 

[Ramenman]

You know all those not-funny jokes we make in every lawsuit threads (always the same jokes) with "hahaha I'm gonna patent the word bananas and you're gonna pay" ?

Well that's what this guy does D:

Also, funny part of the 4 pages Eurogamer feature :

no matter how unsavory you find his tone, his alleged use of shill forum accounts to add volume to his arguments, or the way in which he flaunts his licensee's products as his own. Langdell clearly believes he has done nothing wrong and that his energetic confrontations are something that trademark law requires him to do. Fail to protect your trademark and you lose it, he tells me repeatedly.

Get ready Detective GAF ! :lol

Is there nothing we can to to help this, and make sure the people involved listen. A corporate email address or something to send complaints en masse to?

Well if they actually released games, we could trash their amazon ratings. But since their activity is about suing people, err...

 

[itsinmyveins]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-edge-of-reason

Even EDGE magazine has to pay him royalties for the name

Are they doing that now, though?

 

[Milk Lizard]

I still can't get over the fact that you can copyright a word. I mean WTF?

You cant.

 

[water_wendi]

It would be nice if the people that own the trademark for Mirrors would end up suing him.

 

[Stink]

Edge Lite is back on the App Store btw. It wasn't there a couple of weeks ago when I was looking.

 

[Rei_Toei]

Hey, am I the only one who can't unsee the arrow in the G from EDGE?

 

[Ramenman]

Most money he makes seems to come not from winning lawsuits, but by scaring people with laswuits threats, and proposing them "ways out" to "settle this amically".

And if there are two propositions, he makes sure the first one is cheaper but would be more pejudiciable to them, so that they'd choose the costlier second one.

Obviously when you tell a two-man team that they'll have to pay millions of dollars and three times their revenues in a lawsuit that you assure they will lose no matter what, they tend to bend.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-edge-of-reason

More people should read that. I just did, and it's incredible.

He compares naming a game "Edge" with naming it "Activision" or "Nintendo".

Point being, I had NEVER heard of this guy or his company before I read that article.

 

[gottalovetheglove]

Hey, am I the only one who can't unsee the arrow in the G from EDGE?

Oh wow, never noticed that. :lol
Now I won't be able to unsee it too!

 

[lochnesssnowman]

This site is a pretty good log of his activities: http://chaosedge.wordpress.com/

 

[Nemo]

Looking forward to the PS3 version of Teenage Wasteland.

 

[mrgone]

Rut Roh

Lorenzo Lamas can defend my trademarks any day! (He's immortal! And good with a sword!)

 

[frontieruk]

Tim Langdell missed a trick, he could of gone after Sega loads of times

Sonic the hEDGEhog

:lol

 

[SoccerGoaliePro]

im gonna patent the word patent ....

 

[someguyinahat]

They lost trademark on several Transformers names like Bumblebee and hound and for awhile were calling them in print Autobot Bumblebee and Autobot Hound and the same for some others. Just because you trademark the name of a property doesn't mean you own every use of the words used everywhere else.

I always wondered about this sort of thing, in the same way that the pokemon named Electrode is trademarked. If they can hold on to that, maybe they can make a new pokemon named "Edge" and get in on all these shenanigans. Now there's a court battle I'd like to see.

 

[bumpkin]

You can't patent names can you?

If so, Tim Langdell should patent "asshole." After all, he should protect the name that is so rightfully his. :lol

 

[Dr Zhivago]

Are they doing that now, though?

Edge magazine hasn't been licensed from Langdell for some time now. Future Publishing have a trademark for Edge relating to mags in the UK now.

 

[Binabik15]

I always wondered about this sort of thing, in the same way that the pokemon named Electrode is trademarked. If they can hold on to that, maybe they can make a new pokemon named "Edge" and get in on all these shenanigans. Now there's a court battle I'd like to see.

They could just buy the court, heck, the country the lawsuit is filed in!

 

[OgTheClever]

Mirror's Edge requires an apostrophe. Edge's 'Mirrors' appears to be referring to the plural of Mirror. That looks like plenty of difference to me even though this is all just bullshit anyway.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

go EA!

 

[FoxSpirit]

Gogo EA... make up for that rushed out NFS:Shift

 

[FirewalkR]

So good. :lol

BEHOLD LANGDELL YOU BITCH, THE MIGHT OF EA IS UPON YOU!!!

Aaaaaah EA, how we love thee these days.

 

[Dabanton]

is it just me or does he look like an evil mastermind?

Naw he looks like a new york mob boss.:lol

 

[ShinNL]

Justice coming from EA. Oh man, hopping onto Steam and now this? They're so awesome ^__^

 

[Degen]

I lol'd at something else. Confirm or deny...

Edge the irrelevant game company:

Edge Magazine (completely different owners?):

They even put the (R) in the same spot. I'd check Wikipedia to see who came first, but the game company isn't even there.

 

[Yasae]

Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK

Serial Number 77222986

Filing Date July 5, 2007

Current Filing Basis 1B

Original Filing Basis 1B

Published for Opposition January 15, 2008

Owner (APPLICANT) Electronic Arts Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 209 Redwood Shores Parkway Redwood City CALIFORNIA 94065

Type of Mark TRADEMARK. SERVICE MARK

Register PRINCIPAL

Live/Dead Indicator DEAD

Abandonment Date September 8, 2009

 

[gottalovetheglove]

Also, if anyone's interested, apparently the results of the vote to remove Mr. Langdell from the Board of Directors of the IGDA is going to be announced this Saturday (great timing, the vote went for a month).

God knows how he got on the IGDA board in the first place.

EDIT: Er, was only reading the ChaosEdge website backwards, didn't notice that he resigned soon after.

 

[BluWacky]

Also, if anyone's interested, apparently the results of the vote to remove Mr. Langdell from the Board of Directors of the IGDA is going to be announced this Saturday (great timing, the vote went for a month).

God knows how he got on the IGDA board in the first place.

Didn't he resign a few weeks ago, thus rendering the whole thing moot at this point?

 

[gottalovetheglove]

Didn't he resign a few weeks ago, thus rendering the whole thing moot at this point?

Yeah, didn't read that until just then.

 

[Haunted]

Langdell is a such a parasite.

 

[Uncle]

I'd check Wikipedia to see who came first, but the game company isn't even there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGE_Games

 

[fatigues_gasolini]

So happy a industry giant is getting involved. I hope they require Edge to show these "games" they've been making. Im 100% sure that they are doing nothing and pretending to make games to try to get investment capital that Tim can use for his own amusement. EDGE needs to be buried, and Tim Langdell needs to be laugh out of the industry.

 

[operon]

EA finally does something right

 

[soldat7]

 

[Degen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGE_Games

Oh, snap. They were first. I guess they win.

Wait, no, they lose for their ghetto website. Ghetto Wipeout looks good, though.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

Good. Hope EA crushes this parasitic slug and boots him out of the gaming business for good.

 

[Aaron Strife]

When he threatened to sue the guys who made Edge (the game for iPhone), weren't they like "Well we can just change the name to Edgy (or something), is that alright?" and then he immediately after trademarked their new name too?

He's such a fucking douchefaggot.

 

[crazygambit]

Lorenzo Lamas can defend my trademarks any day! (He's immortal! And good with a sword!)

Wrong. You're thinking of Adrian Paul, Lorenzo Lamas wasn't in Highlander.

And yeah,

Spoiler

financial

death to this parasite.

 

[Tremis]

I look forward to many photoshops involving Langdell, John Riccitiello, and the Edge.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

"Masters of the Game Since 1979" :lol

Doesn't that mean that the patent will be dismissed this year? (I thought the maximum term for a single -nonrenewed- patent was 20 years, so...).

 

[BluWacky]

Doesn't that mean that the patent will be dismissed this year? (I thought the maximum term for a single -nonrenewed- patent was 20 years, so...).

It's not a patent. It's a trademark. And it's been renewed several times since 1979, hence the current situation.

 

[Segata Sanshiro]

The whole situation with all of this tomfoolery reminds me of the Batman comic, "Joker Fish", where Joker gives fish a toxin to make them look like him and thus wants royalties on all fish sold. The hinge of the story was how ridiculous it was for someone to try and patent something like fish.

 

[Yasae]

It's not a patent. It's a trademark. And it's been renewed several times since 1979, hence the current situation.

You cannot prevent trademark filings of the same name or symbol, etc. in different industries. That's against the law.

He has no global trademark on anything.