The never ending Edgeventures of Tim Langdell

[Mentazm]

No idea who this guy was so just googled.

 

What a wank. I knew he was american, with all that suing.

[Alex W.]

He's British.

[stefcha]

1 hour ago, Mentazm said:

No idea who this guy was so just googled.

 

You're in a thread dedicated to him, bit baffling that you decided to leave it and google him (and seemingly get some incorrect information) rather than just go to page 1 and see what it was all about first.

[footle]

9 hours ago, stefcha said:

 

You're in a thread dedicated to him, bit baffling that you decided to leave it and google him (and seemingly get some incorrect information) rather than just go to page 1 and see what it was all about first.

 

Yep. You just filter this thread by AlexW, and you'll learn far more than by googling.

[Goose]

This was always one of the best threads on here. The early stuff was brilliant, then EA stepped in and it just got ridiculously brilliant. 

[Alex W.]

It got really crazy when Future stepped in given that they and Langdell were co-owners of some of the marks, and Future was willing to abandon them while he wasn't. If I was a younger man I would write it up but one PhD thesis was enough brain ache.

[Alex W.]

So, right after the defendants responded to his new lawyer's pleadings, he has replaced that lawyer with a different one.

 

:/

[b00dles]

I still bring up the amazingness of his editing that file in a version of Word that didn't exist when he claimed the file was made and he used this in court whenever things like patent law come up, it's bloody brilliant.

[Alex W.]

Under the section on floppy disks if anyone's wondering:

 

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2011/1489.html

[SeanR]

for me it will always be

 

 

and that marvel comic cover he butchered

 

 

[macosx]

That was comedy gold. I loved this thread, I was always amazed he had the funds for all this litigation as it dragged on for years. 

[SeanR]

2 minutes ago, macosx said:

That was comedy gold. I loved this thread, I was always amazed he had the funds for all this litigation as it dragged on for years. 

 

he uses "no win - no fee" lawyers

[Rowan Morrison]

My wife has recently been involved with a somewhat Langdellian character in an employment law context. It was a classic cocktail of comedy and tragedy - he wasted countless hours of people's lives and caused a lot of stress, but at the same time the details were invariably amusing and the judge was brilliantly exasperated. Interesting to be on the sidelines, but I wouldn't want to get any closer.

[Lothar Hex]

4 hours ago, Alex W. said:

So, right after the defendants responded to his new lawyer's pleadings, he has replaced that lawyer with a different one.

 

:/

Where are you getting this info from btw? Would love to read it myself on a less than busy work day.

[Alex W.]

It's all in the public record. Trademark disputes fall under the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Be advised that it's a rabbit hole of nonsense from which you may never escape:

 

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?corr=TIM%20LANGDELL

[Kryptonian]

That floppy disk stuff is wonderful.

[Lothar Hex]

49 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

It's all in the public record. Trademark disputes fall under the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Be advised that it's a rabbit hole of nonsense from which you may never escape:

 

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?corr=TIM%20LANGDELL

 

...I like that the text is blue...

[kerraig UK]

On 2/21/2016 at 9:18 AM, Alex W. said:

It got really crazy when Future stepped in given that they and Langdell were co-owners of some of the marks, and Future was willing to abandon them while he wasn't. If I was a younger man I would write it up but one PhD thesis was enough brain ache.

I'm still waiting for your self published book! Maybe I should make the movie?

[macosx]

too late mate.

 

[Jbone]

On 2/24/2016 at 9:38 AM, Alex W. said:

Under the section on floppy disks if anyone's wondering:

 

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2011/1489.html

I'd forgotten about that. Solid gold.

[Alex W.]

So having lost to Future, Langdell has adopted the novel legal strategy of writing to the UK and US trademark authorities and using various pseudo-legal theories or misrepresentations to have them assign the trademarks to him on Future's behalf. It isn't going well.

 

https://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-challenge-decision-results/o24114.pdf

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92062034&pty=CAN&eno=10

 

I think I'd have to learn graph theory to properly represent the comings and goings in this mess.

[Comrade]

I think that Tim could have a decent go at suing for the film Edge of Tomorrow. Because the plot of a man trying the same thing over and over again thousands of times is presumably based on his life, though he'll have trouble convincing the court that he inspired the end of the film. Oh, and the Edge thing.

[Dudley]

In one of those he's literally signed himself as the representative of both sides.

[Alex W.]

It looks like he's actually made it a routine thing now.

 

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Highly unusually, there were two occasions when EIM/Dr Langdell wrote to the Tribunal and attempted to withdraw Future’s opposition, on the grounds of power of attorney and the purported assignments at OHIM. The latter attempts took up approximately 5 hours (that I can see from the itemisation sheets) of Abel & Imray’s professional time.

 

You couldn't make it up.

 

https://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-challenge-decision-results/o12214.pdf

https://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-challenge-decision-results/o28312.pdf

https://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-challenge-decision-results/o25514.pdf

 

He's also paid none of the hundreds of thousands of pounds (the best part of a million by my calculations) that have been awarded against him.

[JohnC]

He's going to end up suing himself when it doesn't work.

[Danster]

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42. Agreement was reached in 2004, both with EIM and with Dr Langdell. The result was a Concurrent Trading Agreement ("CTA") with EIM and a Deed with Dr Langdell. Each was paid a substantial sum of money in consideration of entering into the deeds, $250,000 to EIM and $25,000 to Dr Langdell, although the total sum was paid into Dr Langdell's bank account.

 

Well that's why he keeps doing it then...

[Alex W.]

If you visit his web site, which he's still updating, the amount they give to charity changes from page to page (90% of profits/10% of profits) which I seem to remember popped up when he was briefly represented by an attorney specialising in non-profits and charities. Also:

 

[Alex W.]

Langdell's case against Future continues to rumble on with some disputes about proprietary and confidential information. Eventually they were able to shake it out and agree that Langdell can file his confidential documents under seal as long as he also submits a redacted public version, which was just too good for me not to share:

 

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91214673&pty=OPP&eno=61

[revlob]

 

Thanks for the updates, Alex.

[Fry Crayola]

Took me a few seconds before I realised what I was seeing.