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Edge by Mobigame turfed off App Store News
iPhone News by Robert Purchese
Tim Langdell's Edge Games has convinced Apple to remove Edge by Mobigame from the App Store for a second time.
A statement made by the company - and possibly Langdell himself - alleged that renaming EDGE to Edge by Mobigame "was determined not to get around infringement".
"Clearly, if Sony tried to use the mark 'iPod by Sony' they would hardly expect Apple not to take action to protect their mark iPod. In trademark law adding 'by (name)' to another company's registered trademark does not mean a company can use that trademark without being guilty of willful [sic] infringement," claimed Edge Games (posted by Develop).
"The fact is that [Mobigame co-founder] Papazian has had an offer on the table since May to settle this dispute by his changing the name of his game and paying Edge Games no money at all. He has repeatedly refused that very reasonable offer," the statement added.
Mobigame appeared to be getting the better of Langdell and claimed, in October, that his lawyers "had fled".
Earlier this month a handful of Mobigame's iPhone developer peers openly mocked Edge Games by including the word "edge" in their title, making light of the matter.
In this recent statement, however, Edge Games appears to be anything but on the back foot. Even EA's attempt to sever Langdell's hold over various trademarks is being challenged.
"Despite rumors [sic] to the contrary, Edge Games has either won every dispute in the past 20 years over the mark Edge or has settled amicably with the other party ending the dispute with an agreement in Edge Games' favour," the statement continued.
"That acknowledges and reaffirms Edge's ownership of the mark Edge."
Strangely, the statement goes on to distance Langdell from the painstaking defence of the treasured Edge trademark in recent years.
"[Langdell] serves as CEO of this corporation at the pleasure of the Edge Board. His actions are merely those the Board directs him to take," we're told.
Mobigame has been contacted for comment.
Head over to our Edge Games vs. Mobigame analysis for a full and detailed backstory.
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cianchristopher
27/11/09 @ 17:07
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That's a bullshit analogy: iPod by Sony
The word iPod is entirely made-up, the word edge is a commonly used noun. It's really bullshit that such a common word can be trademarked, but there you go! The world is a shit place sometimes! I guess they could always kill Tim Langdell, as in - actually murder him! That'd go someway towards easing their frustration... |
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It's not bullshit that 'edge' can be trade marked; as long as it is not general or descriptive of the goods or services it is being used to sell, it will not be refused. Take 'orange'. That's a common word, but a very succesful trade mark for phone services.
Langdells still a prick, just not quite the fraudster some are saying.... |
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RobotRocker
27/11/09 @ 17:14
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EA please end this twat in court and your previous exploits in the last 20+ years will be forgotten till the end of time.
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Anyone not sure who Tim Langdell is should check out chaosedge : Right here
It's a bit one sided, but an amusing read none the less. |
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Give it time. We knew Langdell would do this again and will repeat it as long as he has a breath in his fake company, but there's plenty of momentum out there and it's headed straight for his rectal cavity.
I did a long post about it beforeand this mans reign of terror is coming to an end. But he was NEVER going to roll over and die that easily, so expect some more wildly preposterous throws of delusion before this one is buried. This is largely what Langdell has built his entire career on, bullying people and threatening legal actions instead of making games (Seriously Langdell, if you ever read this, please do feel free to actually make a game), he's not going to let it go so easily. That said, he is a laughing stock of the industry and hated and reviled by developers, publishers and gamers alike. His career is finished whether he likes it or not - it's cutting the final cords, and that he will fight to the bitter end for...
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kangarootoo
27/11/09 @ 17:21
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Oh come on Apple. Just do a tiny bit of homework on the subject and you would realise you can just bloody ignore this guy.
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The Man is angry. He wants revenge
http://www.ivansafrin.com/langdell.jpg
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makeamazing
27/11/09 @ 17:45
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I wonder if i should rename my new iPhone game to something with the word Edge in it...haha. Hmm maybe a plan for the future :)
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Hendo: ""[Langdell] serves as CEO of this corporation at the pleasure of the Edge Board. His actions are merely those the Board directs him to take,"
I thought there was only him and his wife working as Edge?" It is. His 'Board' also tell him to stop stealing the duvet and she wants some more cash otherwise he'll have to get a proper job. |
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:) I guess it's a last desperate scream from a dying company.
Apple on the other hand need to seriously look at what the heck their app removal guys are doing. They are setting a presidence that will soon force a lot of their app developers to move elsewhere. If you can't trust apple to have a sensible BS radar for this kind of stuff, then no-one with an app on their store can guarantee it will still be there tomorrow. It seems that anyone can file a "please remove game x because I think it violates my copyright" compaint and have apple act on it without any due diligence what so ever! It's even more rediculous because Apple have already put the app back once because their own investigations said that there was no confusion. |
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@hardtech:
Haha. Are you seriously comparing Kotick to Tim Langdell? Just because you don't happen to like some of the decisions that Kotick has made recently hardly puts him at the same cunt level as Tim Langdell. Last time I checked, Kotick's most recent game sold fuck-tons and I don't think Langdell has even made a game in the past twenty years. |
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@redneon
I made no direct comparison, I was mearly stating that while Koticks company has recently published an extremely well selling game, his general attitude to the industry as far as his staff ("Dedicated to taking the fun out of making video games" I think the line was) as well as the uncanny ability to exploit the masses with overpriced sequels and constant reskins of successful games (AKA Guitar Hero) gives him about the same level of cuntary as the aforementioned Mr Langdell. Sure the reasons are different but they are both dicks, pure and simple. |
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chasejamie
27/11/09 @ 18:09
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edgegames@live.com along with the gamertag 'Edge Games' is up for grabs. May have to snap it up and hope the Langdell comes round to my flat. So I can punch him. In the edge of his scrotum.
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freakzilla
27/11/09 @ 18:34
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So should I just go trademark every word in the goddamn dictionary? "Edge" is a fuc*ing English language word, how the F did they manage to trademark it?
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Der_tolle_Emil
27/11/09 @ 18:41
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This is even worse than some companies arguing in front of a court in Texas because they claim their patents have been violated. Even if most of those claims are far from the truth at least some of those companies actually do have similar products, even if noone ever heard of them.
Edge however has pretty much nothing but a fake website - and targeting a two man indie studio is incredibly cowardly because he knows exactly that they don't have tons of money to throw at lawyers to pay for legal fees like big companies do. I really hope it all goes well for Mobigame.
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Edge can be a trade mark for computer progs, which falls under int classification 9 as it is not descriptive or stating quality of goods etc of products in that class. As long as he can demonstrate 'genuine intent to use' (a tricky test) the mark in the 5 years from reg, he is entitled to it. (obviously as long as no one has unregistered trade mark rights which pre date his and entitle them to declare his invalid!).
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NGCes26294BIV
27/11/09 @ 19:28
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This needs to go to court so I don't have to read about it in a 'news' story every month.
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Sunyavadin
27/11/09 @ 20:14
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It's really bullshit that such a common word can be trademarked, but there you go! The world is a shit place sometimes!
Not really, considering exclusively out of the entirety of the world, America has its own official name for Adrenaline, because someone trademarked the word there. It's idiotic. And why copyright, trademark and patent laws need to be revised universally across the board. |
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Even tho he is a twat - think about it 'apple' have copywrited a fruit - I'll go copywrite 'table' then, it's the core problem of the system itself allowing anyone these days to claim fowl and walk away with money, I mean look at the 'companies' apearing claiming Nintendo/Sony/MS stole their ideas these days, someone needs to cut this stuff off from the root
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makeamazing
27/11/09 @ 22:33
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@davisorle the reason people vote you down, is you seem to always be overtly angry.. dont know why... the only people who should be angry are the people being shafted by Edge.
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