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Langdell vs Mobigame enters the testimony stage, featuring Tim Langdell interrogating himself in the third person. It can't be going well because he's already entered a motion to strike the testimony. He didn't realise that Mobigame's counsel would get to be there and cross-examine him.

 

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91212834&pty=OPP&eno=50

 

Although, naturally, when Langdell filed this it mysteriously stopped at Mobigame's lawyer's cross-examination.

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At this stage he's looking at the best part of a million dollars in costs and penalties. I have to imagine that bullshitting got him into this but desperation is keeping him there. The company has no assets and no other employees so I'm not sure he can just trash the business and walk away; staring at the possibility of personal, and not just corporate, bankruptcy has to be pretty grim.

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This one's pretty great and explains why he didn't expect the Mobigames lawyer to be there, it's basically the legal team for Mobigames demanding that Langdell give them sufficient notice to attend the deposition; he announced it was happening less than 48 hours before it was going to to avoid the lawyers having enough time to show up.

 

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91212834&pty=OPP&eno=43

 

They then withdraw it and actually turn up.

 

What little of the testimony I can see is great; he thought he could turn up, announce everything he was showing or discussing was a confidential business secret so it wouldn't be in the public record along with the rest of his madness. The Mobigames lawyer makes it pretty clear that, no, he can't just come along, invent some story about how he's fine for the court to see only, and keep it under wraps.

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A book? This is going straight to Hollywood - there will be rivals already pitching this to producers, scripting the key exchanges and looking at a provisional cast list. There's no doubt about it whatsoever; production will just have to wait until the case is finally settled. Think The Informant meets... well, just think The Informant really. And it'll be a big success, because everyone likes a comedy villain: ironically, Langdell's Edge(™) brand will finally become as well-known to the public as Langdell purports. 

 

I'd get in on the ground floor of this exciting business proposition if I were you, Alex.

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At this stage he's looking at the best part of a million dollars in costs and penalties. I have to imagine that bullshitting got him into this but desperation is keeping him there. The company has no assets and no other employees so I'm not sure he can just trash the business and walk away; staring at the possibility of personal, and not just corporate, bankruptcy has to be pretty grim.

You live by the sword edge you die by the sword edge.

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You can't read Langdell's ongoing caes in the UK court, but you can read the excerpts Mobigame's lawyers are including in their US filing. For example, Langdell's latest legal gambit is:

 

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Breach of the Magazine Agreement

 

Future is in breach of the separate contract entered into with Edge Games on 15 October 2004 ("the Magazine Agreement") under which Future was to supply to Edge Games free each month a copy of the current edition for the time being of each of (1) the Edge Magazine, and (2) the magazine entitled Total Guitar,

 

Future failed to supply any such magazines to Edge Games since or at least November 2011. Particulars 26. Despite Edge Games repeatedly warning Future to commence or recommence the delivery of the agreed magazines, Future has failed to do so even knowing that it was liable to face court action to compel performance on this contract if it persisted in breaching it.

 

Total Guitar?

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1 minute ago, Alex W. said:

You can't read Langdell's ongoing caes in the UK court, but you can read the excerpts Mobigame's lawyers are including in their US filing. For example, Langdell's latest legal gambit is:

 

 

Total Guitar?

 

only issues with interviews with the guitarist out of U2?

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Oh, for those keeping score: both parties have filed their final briefs and as usual Langdell's is full of bafflingly pseudolegal theories and Mobigame's is mostly them pointing out things he's done wrong or that make no sense, such as the failure to properly enter his own testimony into the record which I noted earlier.

 

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91212834&pty=OPP&eno=71

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91212834&pty=OPP&eno=72

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On 22/12/2016 at 15:39, Shook said:

Over the years, has he ever made money from all this madness? Money he can keep? 

 

From a spectator's perspective he's a very entertaining total nutcase.

 

Thing is, you see how 'respected' a figure he became in the gaming community, and wonder what such a delusional person could have become with a little more luck.

 

And then you remember who the US president currently is. :wacko:

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20 hours ago, Alex W. said:

Oh, for those keeping score: both parties have filed their final briefs and as usual Langdell's is full of bafflingly pseudolegal theories and Mobigame's is mostly them pointing out things he's done wrong or that make no sense, such as the failure to properly enter his own testimony into the record which I noted earlier.

 

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91212834&pty=OPP&eno=71

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91212834&pty=OPP&eno=72

 

:o at Exhibit 3!

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Chosty said:

:lol:

 

He sounds like the bad guy from an appallingly dubbed 1970s kung fu film.

When confronted by this email in court he then proceeded to explain how the use of language reads like it must have been written by an angry Frenchman, and hence must have been a forgery done by the founder of Mobigames.

 

I am not joking.

 

It's obviously a fake but how Langdell responds to it is hilarious.

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