Edge Games "completely certain" of win

By Robert Purchese Published 26 March, 2010

"When did EA become the good guys?"

Tim Langdell's Edge Games has told Eurogamer how "completely certain" it is of beating EA - and Mobigame - in court.

An unnamed spokesperson for the company talked of a "biased" press, and said EA "doesn't like the fact there is still one UK company older than itself that they have not yet destroyed".

"Yes, we are completely confident we will win," began the email. "Isn't it amazing how biased towards Electronic Arts the press is on this? When did EA suddenly become the good guys?

"Just before they filed their amended petition to cancel we filed our Motion for Summary Judgement, but their resubmission of their petition gets coverage and our Motion to have the entire issue go away gets no coverage. How could these people be more blatant in their bias in favour of EA?

"Yes, we are completely certain of winning in both the US and UK against EA/EA DICE and against [Mobigame] on the European CTM issue," the letter added. "We have asked Connect2Media to remove [Mobigame's] EDGE from mobile phones and are confident they will do so if they have not done so already."

Edge Games said it was "extremely likely" that EA's advances will be dismissed, because the US publishing giant has "no new detail that enables them to argue fraud", merely "trumped up" accusations of it. Edge Games believes EA will "lose the US action shortly".

"Bottom line," Edge went on to say, "we are the oldest remaining British game company, and one of the oldest remaining US game companies doesn't like the fact there is still one UK company older than itself that they have not yet destroyed. And they wont succeed. False rumours, misinformation and defamation never won any trademark case and it wont this time, either."

Check out our feature on the Edge Games controversy form last summer to catch up on both sides of the issue.

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  • masterson #1 2 years ago

    "When did EA become the good guys?"

    Around the time they went after your sorry ass Langdell...

  • andywilkie35 #2 2 years ago

    FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

  • Razz #3 2 years ago

    This aricle reminds me of a certain river in Africa...
    Edited by Razz at 26/03/10 @ 14:38

  • CaptainQuint #4 2 years ago

    The simple fact of the matter is that anyone who means to trademark such a widely used word as 'Edge', is inherently a fuckheaded prat.

    His perception that the press is being biased towards EA is completely irrelevant - people will call out dickheads when they see 'em, regardless of agenda.
    Edited by CaptainQuint at 26/03/10 @ 10:20

  • Kazzahdrane #5 2 years ago

    "Bottom line," Edge went on to say, "we are the oldest remaining British game company, and one of the oldest remaining US game companies doesn't like the fact there is still one UK company older than itself that they have not yet destroyed."

    I thought the bottom line was this guy is a trademark-squatting jerk who's barely published anything in the last two decades?

    I bet he owns http://www.electronicartz.com too and wants to sue EA for clearly infringing on his good name.

  • RobotRocker #6 2 years ago

    Pride before a fall Tim.

  • masterson #7 2 years ago

    "The simple fact of the matter is that anyone who means to trademark such a widely used word as 'Edge', is inherently a fuckheaded pratt."

    Or a genius. :)

    However any judge that enforces such a trademark...

  • jonbwfc #8 2 years ago

    "When did EA suddenly become the good guys?"

    Compared to you lot, they are the good guys.

    I also love the fact he seems to think we'll all be on his side simply because they're 'British' (how long have they had their office in America, by the way?).

    Edited by jonbwfc at 26/03/10 @ 10:18

  • ShiverinEskimo #9 2 years ago

    Stinks of desperation. Delighted for him - he might actually have to work for a living now.

  • Dr.Mott #10 2 years ago

    Wow. Just wow.

  • Xerx3s #11 2 years ago

    "When did EA suddenly become the good guys? "

    The moment the world learned that there are complete dicks like you.

  • SteveB #12 2 years ago

    Edge, edge, edgedy, edge, edgeeeeeeeeeeee.

    How much do I owe you Tim ?

  • CaptainQuint #13 2 years ago

    Gotta love the Mirror's Edge advert on this page ;)

  • Venkman90 #14 2 years ago

    He seems to take pleasure in the fact he has stopped us from playing one of the best iphone games so far...

  • geeza2020 #15 2 years ago

    an unnamed spokesman said this did he? If he's that confident of winning the case, he would have given his name, the cowardly little shit. I hope they lose big time.

  • UsernamePending #16 2 years ago

    When is this guy going to start on "Edge Products", "Skier's Edge", "Fractal: Edge", or the many thousands of other companies that already use the word?

    Leave EA alone and pick on someone your own size!

  • kangarootoo #17 2 years ago

    "When did EA suddenly become the good guys?"

    What is he, an adult businessman or a whining teenager on a web forum?

    "Good guys" indeed. Grow up ffs.

  • BOBBYLUPO #18 2 years ago

    I thought you'd have to release games to qualify as "the oldest remaining British game company". Does blackmailing developers count?

    Though I'd love to be proved wrong. Come on Tim, what's stopping you from releasing 'Racers' or the episodic 'Teenage Wasteland? The "extreme sports and Hip Hop audiences" are crying out for decent games.

  • Slipstream #19 2 years ago

    "When did EA become the good guys?"

    ...about the time you made and released that statement...

  • CosmicFuzz #20 2 years ago

    Good Lord I hope this guy loses.

  • TheSnotGoblin #21 2 years ago

    I've been reading a lot of Langdell's (and his 'anonymous spokespeoples') comments surrounding this whole trademark fiasco (He got involved in a multipage thread over on the IGDA forums which is... engrossing) and I've come to the conclusion that if he believes even half of what he says then he should be sectioned. It's like he genuinely doesn't understand why everyone thinks he's a prick.

  • Riggers #22 2 years ago

    "Bottom line," Edge went on to say, "we are the oldest remaining British game company, and one of the oldest remaining US game companies doesn't like the fact there is still one UK company older than itself that they have not yet destroyed."

    Tim, Tim, Tim... if our oldest remaining game company is one who hasn't done anything related to games except trademark troll for 20 years, then I, for one, welcome our new American overlords!

  • poopmonster #23 2 years ago

    What a wally :)

  • irve77 #24 2 years ago

    Is it just me or can EA do no wrong at the moment ?

    They are bringing out and championing new games

    and best of all they are standing up to complete fuck heads like this guy and Activision.

    Now i know that if they ever regain their power they will be typical corporate bastards again, but for now i love you EA .. I LOVE YOU !!

  • MiniAmin #25 2 years ago

    Tim Langdell's Edge Games has told Eurogamer how "completely certain" it is of beating EA - and Mobigame - in court.

    Funny that: i'm completely certain i'll sleep with Megan Fox. Still, that certainty doesn't mean it's probable or even possible.

  • Weezer #26 2 years ago

    The guy is now becoming completely delusional. I genuinely think he's cracking up; some of the stuff he's going after in court is sheer madness. And 'British'? Fuck off - he scampered off to America to marry some rich bitch years ago, and also to make use of the US legal system. If he was still based in Britain he'd be looking at possible jail time.

    I hope he loses every single case and gets a stint in chokey to reflect on his actions.

  • kiroquai #27 2 years ago

    I should probably inform you all that back in 1981 I trademarked the use of 'a' on all future internet chat threads. You all now owe me countless thousands of dollars.

    But seriously, yeah, hopefully this sorry mess will be over soon. Doesn't surprise me that an amateurish 'company' like Langdell's has resorted to petty mudslinging. Again.

  • seasidebaz #28 2 years ago

    "Just before they filed their amended petition to cancel we filed our Motion for Summary Judgement, but their resubmission of their petition gets coverage and our Motion to have the entire issue go away gets no coverage.

    Yeah, that's because the motion's going to be denied. Again. Idiot.

  • Zomoniac #29 2 years ago

    Is it just me or can EA do no wrong at the moment ?

    Try playing manager mode or getting online achievements on the first week of a FIFA release and saying that :)

    On the whole, yes, their turnaround is remarkable, and is great for gaming. Their main problem now is shutting themselves in the dark when it comes to customer feedback and post-release problem fixing, which hopefully will come in time.

  • Weezer #30 2 years ago

    Er...?

    Wikipedia says: Edge Games was founded in California in 1990 by Tim Langdell. At that time, it acquired the intellectual property assets of Langdell's former company, Softek Software, itself founded in 1980 in London, England.

    So there's nothing 'British' about the company at all!

  • CaptainQuint #31 2 years ago

    @TheSnotGoblin

    Any chance you could paste us a link to the thread? I'd like to read that shit, cheers.

  • CaptainQuint #32 2 years ago

    The Nazis weren't all bad, I mean; you've got to give 'em their Jew.

  • arty #33 2 years ago

    It seems obvious to me that one entity is a piece of software and the other is a company. It's perfectly valid to register the same trademark as long as there isn't already one in the same category. These are two different categories, so it's fine. But, as we all know this is Edge Magazines fault because they set a precedence by giving in to him, which gave the twat the, erm, edge.

  • Petulant_Radish #34 2 years ago

    "When did EA suddenly become the good guys?" - Even the Nazi's are the good guys when compared to Edge Games"

    Now as much as Langdell is a dick, let’s not say that a fascist group committing some of the worst atrocities the world has ever seen is better than a trademark troll.

    When he says they are confident of Connect2Media removing the game from phones, does that mean that if you’d purchased the game before it was pulled form sale, this company can somehow delete it from your mobile without your permission?
    Edited by Petulant_Radish at 26/03/10 @ 11:17

  • Xerx3s #35 2 years ago

    Btw, Edge Games was founded in 1990 in the US. Softek Software was founded in 1980 in the UK. Considering that there isn't so much as a wiki page about this company, I think that it is safe to say that it is very much dead and has been so for longer than even one person on the internet would care to remember.

    So, no mister Langdell (yes, we know that you are that anonymous spokesman, nobody in their right mind would represent you), Edge games is NOT the oldest existing UK company. That would be Rare or some other company that actually added good games to this world.

  • MrE26 #36 2 years ago

    "When did EA suddenly become the good guys?"

    When they decided to take down a parasitic little cunt like you, Timothy.

  • Markusdragon #37 2 years ago

    "An unnamed spokesperson for the company"

    Hi Tim!

  • Bleemo #38 2 years ago

    I cannot tell if this guy just likes being the bad guy and gets turned by it or something like that, what a sad little man.

  • kupocake #39 2 years ago

    Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

  • Danno #40 2 years ago

    I’ve never wanted EA to triumph over anything before, but I want this man crushed beneath their gargantuan, newly-heeled legal stiletto boot of financial terror & destruction.

  • Eighthours #41 2 years ago

    The EA document contains Langdell's hilariously fake Edge magazine cover, that he submitted to the court previously under terms of perjury in order to "prove" that his trademark was still in use.

    So no, he isn't going to win. He may, in fact, be going to prison if the legal system works as it should. It's 5 years in jail for perjury over there. I hope they absolutely fucking nail him to the wall.

    And the unnamed spokesperson is Langdell himself, of course.

  • PlugMonkey #42 2 years ago

    So, is his case based purely on the fact that his company is called Edge, or on the fact that he has a game listed on his site called "Mirrors" (coming soon to PS3, X360, PC, Wii, PSP, DS and iPhone! Yeah, right.)? Or is that just going to be the source of EA's countersuit in the unlikely event that he wins, on account of them, you know, owning the word 'mirror'.

  • reality_cheque #43 2 years ago

    Wow. It's entirely possible the biggest arsehole in the US is actually English.

  • Machetazo #44 2 years ago

    "our Motion to have the entire issue go away gets no coverage."
    Certain of that win, really?

    "we are the oldest remaining British game company"
    Just how was the prehistoric era, dinosaur?
    When Edge Game starts burning from the fire EA will bring, watch as no-one goes running for water, or wastes liquid on it.

    @17. 100% agree.

  • OrangesJoel #45 2 years ago

    The oldest remaining British game company... that operates out of a PO box in California?

    Ah, I've missed this good old Langdell nonsense.

  • sneetch #46 2 years ago

    @irve77
    Is it just me or can EA do no wrong at the moment ?

    C&C4 DRM says hi! :)

    Otherwise they're great, IMO.

  • PlugMonkey #47 2 years ago

    Having just skimmed through the proceeding:

    [link url=http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92051465&pty=CAN&eno=16
    ]http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=9...[/link]

    All I can say is O.M.F.G.

    That fake Edge cover is incredible. I particularly like the way he's elevated his own brand of gaming PCs to front page news!

    He also submitted the cover of an amiga game released in 1989, and an Incredible Hulk comic published in 1995, claiming they were both proof of his trademark being active in the last 5 years.

    Wow. Just wow. Did he really think that nobody would notice?

  • Gearskin #48 2 years ago

    ... Can someone tell me what this is actually about?

  • Burgeri #49 2 years ago

    If and when EA brings this idiot down, I will celebrate by buying an EA game!

    (No, I don't work there but I *am* grateful that they published BC2 for PC as well as consoles...)
    Edited by Burgeri at 26/03/10 @ 12:13

  • Rubarack #50 2 years ago

    If he does win I reckon I should trademark the word "The"

  • Monkey_Puncher #51 2 years ago

    I have a trademark on the alphabet, you'll all be hearing from my lawyers very soon.

    I'll let Tim Langdell have the use of a few of my letters though, those being W.A.N.K.E.R

  • PlugMonkey #52 2 years ago

    Gearskin: From what I can tell, in a nutshell, there's this guy called Tim Langdell who used to make games for the C64 and Speccy back in the day. He claims to still hold trademarks for the word "Edge" (and 'Cutting Edge', and 'Gamer's Edge' and 'The Edge') and goes around legally threatening anyone who has used the word 'Edge' in anything to do with video games.

    Having had some success with Edge magazine and a little indie dev who had an iPhone game called Edge, he decided to go after EA for Mirror's Edge.

    This may prove to be a mistake, as EA obviously didn't get where it is today by bending over for anyone who hires a lawyer, and their legal team have twigged that much of the evidence he provided in his claim is either deliberately misrepresented, or outright forged.

  • Lukus #53 2 years ago

    What a nobber.

  • Gearskin #54 2 years ago

    @PlugMonkey

    LOL! That is quality. Cheers.

  • Concrete #55 2 years ago

    @Plugmonkey

    Good overview there, but you are slightly wrong. He never made games himself, he ripped off developers, publishing their games and never paying them.

  • darleysam #56 2 years ago

    EA have been the good guys for some time, Timothy.

    You colossal moron.

  • makeamazing #57 2 years ago

    Cant wait for all this to be over... and we never hear of TL every again.

  • Freek #58 2 years ago

    "When did EA suddenly become the good guys?"

    When Tim Langdel decided trolling law suites was a better way of making money then actually developing his own games.

  • asphaltcowboy #59 2 years ago

    Dear Tim Langdell,

    Do some fucking work.


    Regards,
    Everyone

  • septimus #60 2 years ago

    "Bottom line," Edge went on to say, "we are the oldest remaining British game company, and one of the oldest remaining US game companies doesn't like the fact there is still one UK company older than itself that they have not yet destroyed. And they wont succeed. False rumours, misinformation and defamation never won any trademark case and it wont this time, either."

    Bottom line is you are a fucking embarrassment to Britain and you should just piss off and take your lame trademarked word with you. He should trademark the word asshole, at least that would be valid.

  • neems #61 2 years ago

    I'm fairly certain that if he did, the next time you called anybody an asshole you'd get a subpoena in the post.

  • PlugMonkey #62 2 years ago

    and one of the oldest remaining US game companies doesn't like the fact there is still one UK company older than itself that they have not yet destroyed.

    That's my favourite bit. As if it was EA who went after him, as he was quietly minding his own business as one of Britain's longest established and best respected developers.

  • kangarootoo #63 2 years ago

    I wonder if he might actually be mentally ill.


    You note I said might. I'm no expert and this is pure speculation...

  • Eighthours #64 2 years ago

    I wonder if he might actually be mentally ill.

    He definitely is. There's no other explanation. If he genuinely believes that he's telling the truth, even after all the "forgeries", then he must be completely delusional.

    But if he knows he's lying and carries on the charade anyway, and believes for a second that anyone is taken in, then he's nuts there too. A compulsive liar on another level to practically anyone else I've ever heard of.

    So there's no possible reasoning that could make him anything other than padded cell material, tbh.

  • Slipstream #65 2 years ago

    Dear Tim Langdell,

    Do some fucking work.


    Regards,
    Everyone

    You know until I read this I never actually thought about it but. Langdell is really trying to avoid actually doing some honest work isn't he.
    With so much negativity against him and his methods, what human being would want to live with this stigma?

  • VibratingDonkey #66 2 years ago

    Hey Tim!

  • TitusCrow #67 2 years ago

    Maybe when he losses the case he should actually be flogged this time. For absurd waste of everyones time. Or perhaps a comedy punishment like being stoned to death, but they have to use ripe fig's :)

    Mental illness is an affliction, he should only be gently mocked, rather than openly derided!

  • LazyNinjaUk #68 2 years ago

    I like how they play the old patriotism card frequently stating it is a British company's fight, yet they forget about the time they filed suit against the highly respected British magazine, EDGE.

    Come Tim, your company has'nt published a game in more than 15 years, stop cyber squatting!

  • Weezer #69 2 years ago

    The Edge logo on Bobby Bearing is a rip-off of the mag logo. The sneaky cunt started using it retroactively and then claimed ownership.

    Either he's got a time machine - or is just forging stuff. I suspect the latter.

  • FirewalkR #70 2 years ago

    I love it how he goes "we at edge games this" "we that" "we such" when "we" is a guy on a basement.

  • pickles4uk #71 2 years ago

    Trademarking a word has to be on the list of asshole things to do.

  • kangarootoo #72 2 years ago

    @Eighthours

    My hard to spot joke was based on me avoiding being sued by Langdell*. As I hear he is quite partial to a bit of suing from time to time :)

    You might want to chuck the word "allegedly" into your post somewhere, just in case he writes you a threatening letter (allegedly using a mix of crayon and his own poo) ;)

  • kangarootoo #73 2 years ago

    @VibratingDonkey

    If I'm not much mistaken, that is a clip from the film "Session 9". A very great film (though a slow burner, so give it a chance).

  • kangarootoo #74 2 years ago

    @FirewalkR

    "I love it how he goes "we at edge games this" "we that" "we such" when "we" is a guy on a basement."

    Hey now, it just isn't fair to forget his mum like that. That tray of milk and biscuits won't carry itself down the stairs you know.

  • Redeye #75 2 years ago

    "Dear Tim Langdell,

    You're a cunt.

    Regards,
    Everyone"

    /fixed

  • crazyhorse174 #76 2 years ago

    I have to agree with the folk who reckon Langdell might not be all there. I mean even people who had a good case legally against EA would think twice about going up against them and their army of lawyers in court. Its not like they couldnt afford to pay the best in the business to fight their case.

    Who is he going to have defend him? Lionel Hutz or something!?

  • hy4000uk #77 2 years ago

    spokesman my ass

    shut the fuck up langdell you talentless, exploitative prick

    hope this guy loses every penny of his ill gotten gains and dies a horrible death. worthless, useless cunt

  • metalangel #78 2 years ago

    Today EA, tomorrow U2's keyboard player, right Langdell? You complete cuntwit.

  • darkmorgado #79 2 years ago

    @PlugMonkey

    He also tried to sue Marvel Comics when they had a line called "Marvel EDGE" in the early 90s. They promptly renamed the line instead of paying him.

  • darkmorgado #80 2 years ago

    @metalangel

    There is actually an unconfirmed report that he HAS gone after The Edge from U2, before backing down when they called his bluff.

  • darkmorgado #81 2 years ago

    And let's not forget that the whole reason he moved to the US in the first place was to escape British law because he was refusing to pay the devs who created the games he published

  • PlugMonkey #82 2 years ago

    @darkmorgado
    Really? On his website he claims to have published the Marvel Edge comics.

    One of them iis referenced in the EA proceeding as one of the pieces of evidence he claimed showed that the trademark was still current and active.

  • LazyNinjaUk #83 2 years ago

    Looking at EDGE Games' website, I'd be surprised that anyone would take it seriously. Its got broken links, non active pages and generally looks shite, I submitted a better website for my GCSEs, 7 years ago.

    If he is to have a successful case against Mirrors Edge with his fabricated bullshit 'Mirrors', he is going to have to submit at least 4 years worth of development work to prove it is a real project and not just a load of bollocks he made up.

  • Gastrian #84 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 17:56:43 13-04-2012

  • doragor #85 2 years ago

    Langdell's face makes me angry.

  • Jackface #86 2 years ago

    "When did they become the good guys?"

    When you started acting like a FUCKING GODDAMN CUNT.

  • DFawkes #87 2 years ago

    Should anyone wonder why people regard Langdell as a dick, and haven't read it, please have a look at this:

    <a href="http://chaosedge.wordpress.com/">ChaosEdge</a href>

    I believe EA have even used some of the evidence from it in their case. It's a fascinating read - I dare you to read everything without thinking Tim is a cuntwank.

  • Jackface #88 2 years ago

    Hey Tim,

    When did EA become the good guys? Come on, dude, that's an easy question.

    The answer is: the second they stood up for all that is right. You have no reason to feel threatened by other companies using the word EDGE because your company isn't even on the map therefore it stands to lose, hmm, nothing at all by their using that word. It seems that the only reason you might threaten them is because you can't sustain yourself financially without doing so. I believe the reason you need to threaten them is that you'd go hungry and homeless without their money, because you don't have any other skills. That's just my belief of course.

    I think you're an evil human being and I hope they take you for everything you've got.

    Cheers,
    Jackface

  • madjim #89 2 years ago

    Back in 1988 I loved EA for giving me F-18 Interceptor and Deluxe Paint for Amiga. Now, I love them again for kicking this fucker on the balls. EA will win and I will enjoy.
    Edited by madjim at 26/03/10 @ 18:52

  • darkmorgado #90 2 years ago

    @PlugMonkey

    Really? On his website he claims to have published the Marvel Edge comics.

    On his website he also claims to have owned Edge Magazine. You're going to believe Langdell over fact?

    I have the comics in question. And as Marvel are a massive publisher of comics, why would they choose to publish some of them (such as the Incredible Hulk) through Langdell? Incredible Hulk, Punisher, etc (which were published under the Marvel EDGE imprint - meaning they were EDGY, mature comics) - were IPs owned by Marvel. Read the Chaos Edge blog for evidence of this - when he claimed the comics in question were "in circulation" they had actually been OUT of circulation for nearly a decade.

    EDIT: Said comics were published in the early 90s - 1995 to be exact. After Langdell asked them for a licensing agreement, they dropped the line - the Marvel EDGE imprint lasted for around 6 issues.
    Edited by darkmorgado at 26/03/10 @ 19:39

  • AphoticCosmos #91 2 years ago

    EA became the good guys about two years ago, Tim. Ironically, around the time when Mirror's Edge (and Dead Space) was released. They've got better ever since, and I'd even go so far as to call them my favourite games publisher by a long way.

    Seriously, what a dick. I hope EA not only destroys his trademark in both the UK and the US, but pummels his shitty little company into the ground and makes him work for a living.

  • Jackface #92 2 years ago

    I sent my last post to him as an email, before posting it here. He replied moments later. He basically said that EA fired first, all of their attempts to protect 'Mirrors Edge' in recent months have failed because it clashes with his pre-existing trademark. He also said that in every clash so far, his company has prevailed over EA and that while I'm entitled to hold the belief, I'm being illogical in believing that "EA are in the right and the trademark office, the US Federal Court, etc are all wrong".

    I wrote him back a very polite and civil reply dripping in thinly veiled sarcasm and borderline passive aggression. I look forward to a long and productive correspondance with him.

  • CaptainTrips #93 2 years ago

    He certainly seems on Edge...

  • smelly #94 2 years ago

    >all of their attempts to protect 'Mirrors Edge' in recent months have failed

    .. Because (looking at the court documents) it seems he keeps stalling. He hasnt "won" anything at all yet just applying stalling tactics (as far as i can see) - i may be wrong *


    * - i only wrote that last bit to cover my own ass legally :-D

  • uglygamer #95 2 years ago

    Only 1 negative comment out of 94 posts. Is that a new record?
    Seems to be a universal hatred for langdell

  • Jackface #96 2 years ago

    Just got a somewhat lengthy email reply from Mr Langdell (presumably, but he keeps calling himself 'Edge' which is off-putting) about how they've only ever sued one company and everyone else has settled so why won't EA and if they're so evil why did everyone else settle in the first place, often amicably, and especially the big guys (I guess he means the movie studio and the magazine publisher) and also they're only doing what they need to do by law to protect their own mark (like they don't really want the money and the credit for stuff they've had nothing to do with).

    I'll give him this: he's got a doctorate in being dead inside, spinning a good sob story and studiously avoiding the point.
    Edited by Jackface at 26/03/10 @ 22:39

  • sfp_noodle #97 2 years ago

    so this guy jus makes money by sitting on his ass and trying to sue people who have used the word edge in their work? i hope he gets fed to a shark, minus his head, so the fucker can watch the whole thing while he gets torn to shreds.

  • Martin #98 2 years ago

    I feel the pain of Mr. Langdell.

    My Italian based company that is developing a new, automated shopping trolley have also been the target of completely unfair bullying from Electronic Arts.

    I cannot divluge any details of the proceedings at the moment though.

    Martin, CEO
    Electroni Carts

  • PlugMonkey #99 2 years ago

    Darkmorgado: I'm not doubting you, I'm just amazed. That was an incredulous "Really?".

    Not only does he seem to claim to own the word 'Edge', he also seems to think that he owns everything else that uses the word 'Edge'. It's one thing to claim that Marvel or Future are infringing your trademark, it's quite another to claim that you are then responsible for their products.

    Er, allegedly.
    Edited by PlugMonkey at 27/03/10 @ 16:59

  • LazyNinjaUk #100 2 years ago

    @PlugMonkey

    Langdell has some very nefarious practices, with the game "Racers" by EDGE (really though provoking name their Tim, how did you come up with that intriguing title?) he found out there was a game on the Apple App store called Killer Edge Racing. Then he sneakily registered a trademark for "Racers" by EDGE then wrote to Apple saying the game was infringing on his ownership of the word 'EDGE' and the title Racers.

    I'm still astonished that there was someone stupid enough to actually allow him to trademark a word that has been part of the English language since Jesus wrote the dictionary. =)

  • Bonders99 #101 2 years ago

    Why don't EA ask Sony and Microsoft to confirm if this clown has got any devkits for the PS3 / Xbox 360. as he seems to like to advertise the fact he is developing for these platforms his forthcoming games "Mirrors and Racers".. I doubt very much he has any such kit. This clown seems to like to EDGEaculate at every use of the word. A complete knob head.

  • kupocake #102 2 years ago

    "My Italian based company that is developing a new, automated shopping trolley have also been the target of completely unfair bullying from Electronic Arts."
    I couldn't plus this comment quick enough.

    "Langdell's face makes me angry."
    He always looks so harmlessly carefree... it still makes me angry though, because he always looks like a poorly photoshopped Matt Groening. Would you put it past him?

  • actionfitz #103 2 years ago

    "An unnamed spokesperson for the company"
    you mean either Tim or his wife?
    as they are the only actual 'employees'.

    TIM!! BAD TRADEMARK TROLL IS BAD!!
    /sigh.

  • SG #104 2 years ago

    "Edge Games "completely certain" of win"

    Edge Games "completely made" of fail.

    Fixed.

  • Jackface #105 2 years ago

    Is there any legal precedent that would frown on me pasting the contents of his cunting emails to me in here?

    He basicvally just goes on and on about how all he's doing is following the law, which has essentially forced him into taking action against people in order to protect his own mark, or he'll lose it. He never once answers the question, "Do you genuinely believe these games and films and comics and magazines are damaging your reputation by using a word in the name of your company?"

    The reason he doesn't answer it is that he doesn't have to. As he repeatedly said to me, the law agrees with him. He's in the right, legally.

    And that's the point, that's what EA are trying to do, ultimately: get the law changed.

  • Mox #106 2 years ago

    Trademark status: Cancellation Pending.

  • RM2KMaster #107 2 years ago

    "Isn't it amazing how biased towards Electronic Arts the press is on this? When did EA suddenly become the good guys?"

    That's because you're a cunt Tim.

  • hazelam #108 2 years ago

    good guys? hardly, simply the lesser of two evils.
    quite how this guy has been allowed to trademark a generic word like edge is beyond me, but somehow he did and he's been squatting on it ever since sueing anybody who uses it in a successful title.
    say what you will about ea but they haven't stopped to that level yet.
    ea have been putting out games for years and this other guy hasn't made anything for over a decade.

  • SheffieldSteel #109 2 years ago

    Businessmen* take note:-

    If you find yourself in a position to say "When did EA suddenly become the good guys?" it may be that your moral compass is in need of adjustment. There is a certain depth beyond which man was not meant to sink.



    * I use the term loosely

  • ReaperOscuro #110 2 years ago

    What scum. Trampling on emerging devs dreams because they have given up on their own. For once i hope EA grinds him into the ground and he never recovers. They just better not give up, no matter the cost.