Tim Langdell, biggest a-hole in gaming?

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This guy is unbelievable, basically he's trademarked the word EDGE and sues almost any company that uses it.

http://kotaku.com/5273141/trademark-troll-gets-mobigames-edge-taken-down

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache...ll+edge+gamesetwatch&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

http://fav.or.it/post/1495547

http://tigsource.com/articles/2009/05/29/tim-langdell-the-edge-of-insanity

http://fingergaming.com/2009/05/28/update-edge-pulled-over-alledged-trademark-infringement/

This is insane, it's even more hilarious that his wife basically created a wikipedia entry for him, filled with unsubstantiated claims.

For example, the wikipedia article claims he's made over 180 games, but I can only find him credited in a total of 6 games..

This guy is a wackjob.

Also, the most hilarious part is that he's one of the chairmen of the Independent Game Developer's Association, but he pretty much gets all his cash from suing indie developers using the words "Edge" in their game titles.
 
Coming from you? That's practically a professional recommendation!
 
I don't think you can trademark an actual word.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/edge

This is a common everyday word found in the dictionary.

That would be like trademarking the word 'blue', thus we have Blu-Ray, which can be a trademark (and is).

however, even then, I'm pretty sure other companies can trademark a word group containing Blu. BluSky for example, would be available as would Blu-News.
 
I remember something similar with the company Kinder, wanting to trademark that word...
 
VirusType2 said:
I don't think you can trademark an actual word.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/edge

This is a common everyday word found in the dictionary.

That would be like trademarking the word 'blue', thus we have Blu-Ray, which can be a trademark (and is).

however, even then, I'm pretty sure other companies can trademark a word group containing Blu. BluSky for example, would be available as would Blu-News.
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Considering he just a few days ago managed to get an indie game on Apple Store called "Edge" taken down for violating his trademark, I'd say yes, you can trademark an everyday word.
 
Gargantou said:
Considering he just a few days ago managed to get an indie game on Apple Store called "Edge" taken down for violating his trademark, I'd say yes, you can trademark an everyday word.
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But it may never have been contested - the likelihood is that the game devs were scared of legal challenge, unable to really stand up to it, and settled way before it ever went to court.
 
Somebody should trademark "Langdell".
 
The ****er also looks likes he's completely ripped of EDGE magazines Logo as well:-

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They should bury his ass in litigation :frown:
 
Shit. I'm going to go and trademark WAR and SIM. I'll make a killing.
 
Kadayi said:
The ****er also looks likes he's completely ripped of EDGE magazines Logo as well:-

*snip*

They should bury his ass in litigation :frown:
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Looking at that web site's deisng makes me nostalgic for the mid '90s.

But yeah, guy's a litigious bastard, and a huge douchebag. Not the first time someone's pulled something like this though--hasn't some company been suing everyone who's ever included rumble technology (or was it motion sensing..) in a controller?
 
[Dragoon] said:
Looking at that web site's deisng makes me nostalgic for the mid '90s.

But yeah, guy's a litigious bastard, and a huge douchebag. Not the first time someone's pulled something like this though--hasn't some company been suing everyone who's ever included rumble technology (or was it motion sensing..) in a controller?
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Except those guy's actually did create the rumble technology and Sony refused to acknowledge that and refused to pay and eventually got their ass sued big time. Microsoft were smarter in simply paying to use that tech.
 
PimpinPenguin said:
Except those guy's actually did create the rumble technology and Sony refused to acknowledge that and refused to pay and eventually got their ass sued big time. Microsoft were smarter in simply paying to use that tech.
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Ah, somewhat more reasonable then.
 
Jesus christ...

They have not made a game in fifteen years. What do they just pay monkeys to sit in a room and grind rocks all day?
 
Sulkdodds said:
But it may never have been contested - the likelihood is that the game devs were scared of legal challenge, unable to really stand up to it, and settled way before it ever went to court.
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Yeah this. Court fees, lawyers, and chances of losing and having to pay. Whoever made the apple game was probably just some regular guy. And I think even large corporations might avoid going to court if it's something as simple as a name change.

PimpinPenguin said:
Except those guy's actually did create the rumble technology and Sony refused to acknowledge that and refused to pay and eventually got their ass sued big time. Microsoft were smarter in simply paying to use that tech.
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Actually Microsoft bought the company.


You can trademark The House Of Blues or something like that. And trademark was designed to prevent people from doing things like opening a fake McDonald's called MacDonald's.

This guy is a ****ing douche.
 
The question is who let him trademark an everyday word and why is he winning the cases.
 
I bet he doesn't have balls to sue EA for the Mirror's Edge...
 
Lucasarts tried to copyright the word Nazi.
 
25 years of bad karma for the EdgeTM nazi Tim Langdell. The internet hates you.
 
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