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The never ending Edgeventures of Tim Langdell

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Myshkin

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omg omg omg I remember this from like a literal decade ago. So much has changed, I am a totally different person in so many ways and this man is still out there, still doing the exact same thing and still getting the exact same response. 
 

At this point I feel compassion for him more than anything else. I mean what would happen in his mind were he now, by some miracle, to enter the reality everyone else shares? He’d be devastated!
 

 

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Myshkin

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isn't the new PS5 dual sense called the edge? is our poor, hard-done-by, underdog's perennial favourite Mr Langdell gonna get his share for coming up with such a brilliant and unique monicker?? or is the heartless corporation gonna win once again against the brave, creative, innovator that we all love so dearly?

 

i'd love to see him go after Sony 😂

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2 hours ago, Myshkin said:

isn't the new PS5 dual sense called the edge? is our poor, hard-done-by, underdog's perennial favourite Mr Langdell gonna get his share for coming up with such a brilliant and unique monicker?? or is the heartless corporation gonna win once again against the brave, creative, innovator that we all love so dearly?

 

i'd love to see him go after Sony 😂


This explains the PS5 price hike - Sony’s just pricing in the inevitable payouts to Edge Games Inc. 

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2 hours ago, robotattack said:

 

Edgy

careful. you need a licence for such talk.

 

48 minutes ago, Popo said:


This explains the PS5 price hike - Sony’s just pricing in the inevitable payouts to Edge Games Inc. 

i'm just imagining a world with such a low trademark barrier. Sony PS5 £450 before loyalties / £450,000 after.

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Alex W.

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It’s so low stakes for them - the game’s now defunct - I’m genuinely curious what happens. They might just look at Langdell’s trademark litigation strategy of bullshitting his way through years of misinformed counter-arguments and appeals and just write it off, in which case the people Tim sues will never hear the end of it.

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25 minutes ago, James Lyon said:

Why is he going after this and not Microsoft's Edge browser? What's the story here?

 

I think you've got a stronger case if you are taking action against a company in the same line of business as you. Like, in theory, if you started a company that installed bay windows and called it Outlook, it would be harder for Microsoft to argue that you are infringing on their business as there's little possibility of a customer mistaking your window company for the international tech conglomerate. If you tried to sell your own email client called Outlook, you would be in big trouble.

 

So Langdell, who purports to be a videogame developer, would have an easier time (relatively speaking) arguing that Microsoft are treading on his toes by releasing a game called Bleeding Edge than he would arguing that his rights are being infringed by a web browser, as he's not in the web browser business.

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58 minutes ago, K said:

I think you've got a stronger case if you are taking action against a company in the same line of business as you.

 

For example, Apple (Beatles) v Apple (Mac):

 

A. Corps: Stop using the word Apple!

A. Computer: OK, we won't go into the music business, as long as you never go into the computer business.

 

A. Corps: You're putting sound chips in Macs!

A. Computer: OK, we won't (yet).

 

A. Corps: You've got a musical sound file!

A. Computer: OK, we're allowed to make things that play music, but we won't distribute music.

 

A. Corps: You're distributing music via iTunes!?

A. Computer: What does the judge think?

Guy Goma: I'm just here for the job interview.

 

 

58 minutes ago, K said:

So Langdell, who purports to be a videogame developer, would have an easier time (relatively speaking) arguing that Microsoft are treading on his toes by releasing a game called Bleeding Edge than he would arguing that his rights are being infringed by a web browser, as he's not in the web browser business.

 

At the moment he's never been in the web browser business. It's still possible that at some point he might conveniently remember that back in 2009 he started a fork of Firefox and called it "Browser's Edge".

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It's like he's a masochist or something at this point. If Microsoft doesn't just agree to the cancellation for the sake of it, then its lawyers can make mincemeat out of Langdell. They can refer to the past claims that were laughed out of court, along with all the detailed character assassinations within the judgements on how much of a prick he is.

 

I'm beyond pleased that this thread is back, though!

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More than you might expect has happened in the intervening time given how the EA case worked out. And the Future case. Short version is this past few months he’s been back on his shit while Mobigame sue him at the USPTO for fraudulent registrations.

 

I’m not going to recount it all because I wouldn’t know where to start and it would never end.

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26 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

More than you might expect has happened in the intervening time given how the EA case worked out. And the Future case. Short version is this past few months he’s been back on his shit while Mobigame sue him at the USPTO for fraudulent registrations.

 

I’m not going to recount it all because I wouldn’t know where to start and it would never end.


 

Come on, we’re on the edge of our seats.

 

 

Shit. I’m going to get sued.

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