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The Edge of Reason? - iPhone game developer's trademark battle
- chaostheory 17y agoThis is a good lesson as to why it's a good idea to spend a little time doing some quick trademark searches on uspto.gov
- lutorm 17y agoThe lesson is that it should not be possible to trademark dictionary words. Or maybe the lesson is that someone should trademark "The" and then proceed to haul in settlement profits?
- sachinag 17y agoTim Langdell is well-known for being a total dick about the use of the word "Edge" in games. He's also on the board of the Independent Game Developers Association. There's a recall effort afoot as a result of his pigheadedness: http://corvus.zakelro.com/2009/07/its-fun-to-stay-at-the-igda/ http://corvus.zakelro.com/2009/07/its-fun-to-stay-at-the-igd...
- Osmose 17y agoTIGSource has been tracking Langdell and Edge Games for a while now: http://www.tigsource.com/pages/edge-games http://www.tigsource.com/pages/edge-games The guy sounds like scum.
- TrevorJ 17y agoWhat about the game Mirror's edge? No, wait, that's published by a large company with a legal department. Not easy target there.
- CorvusE 17y agoOh, I have been assured by my sources that there are legal proceedings in the works over that as well.
- Osmose 17y agoBut they tried to leech off of it: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2581/3724300173_2680b2c023.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2581/3724300173_2680b2c023.jp...
- spatulon 17y agoAccording to the article's author, "EA didn't want to be involved in the article so I couldn't say one way or the other if they paid or not." http://twitter.com/SimonParkin/status/3104511092 http://twitter.com/SimonParkin/status/3104511092
- sengan 17y agohttp://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?qt=adv&procstatus=All&pno=&propno=&qs=&propnameop=&propname=&pop=&pn=&pop2=&pn2=&cop=&cn=langdell http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?qt=adv&procstatus=All... Well, he's been feeding lawyers.