Edge by Mobigame Again Pulled from App Store
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I think we should all send Mr Langdell the following email...
Will it accomplish anything? Maybe not. Will it be hilarious and at least our own way of getting back at him? Absolutely.
I have to play devil's advocate here and ask: wouldn't it be easier and cheaper for Mobigame to just change the name? They could avoid costly litigation and get their game back in the app store where they can actually make money off of it... and with that money, they could buy some stamps and use them to mail dirty diapers to Tim Langdell. Or put a billboard or two up near his residence or office that says "Tim Langdell is a whiny douche".
This makes me want to make a game called "The Edge: Living on the Edgy Edge of the Edge of Society From Edging Away From Edge-a-Cation."
Also, I'd have the intro screen say "'The Edge' and the Edge name can't be distributed or used by anybody else because I own it all. That's the definition of Edgy right there."
I'll probably need to hide in a hEdge after that. I'll be Edging away from the law.
Edge.
Also, I'd have the intro screen say "'The Edge' and the Edge name can't be distributed or used by anybody else because I own it all. That's the definition of Edgy right there."
I'll probably need to hide in a hEdge after that. I'll be Edging away from the law.
Edge.
I'm behind mobigames all the way, seriously if they aren't referring to the company edge and just using the word edge all should be fine, but I know little about the law of these things or Tim Langdell's mindset...
Evil always wins because Good has to play by the rules it makes itself.Malygris said:
"Oh help, I'm being repressed. Sucka."
Langdell would continue manstruating because it contains the word Edge.Samurai Ralan said:
The fall of Western society...
F-Zero clone aside, I must admit that it looks... disturbingly... good...DeadlyYellow said:
Pfft, I prefer Wipeout anyway. Screw you and your silly trademarks Langdell. You're not getting any of my money, that's for sure.
Who says videogame politics can't be dramatic and exciting?
According to my recent course on trademark law, both Edge Games and Edge by Mobigames are likely classified as Arbitrary/Fanciful trademarks, meaning they are highly distinctive in that they are only associated with the product by branding. The only way to prove who is right in this case is to show which trademark is more distinctive (which can't be done, it's arbitrary by nature.)
Point of this post: I just took a class on this shit and even I don't have any clue what's gonna happen.
Point of this post: I just took a class on this shit and even I don't have any clue what's gonna happen.
I just hope someone will remember they trademarked the word before Edge Games did, and that they will harass them for a change. (If the trademark office lets you trademark a common word just like that, I wouldn't be surprised if they accidentally let multiple people do it, because it doesn't seem like they're doing their job very well... from my layman's perspective at least.)
"Edge Games" Someone needs to copyright games. Then start another lawsuit. With Langdells legal division cut in half and everything he says in one case working against him in the other it will only be a matter of time... Then we unleash the man-hacks.
You can't trademark a word with actual meaning in the English language. I mean, you apparently can, but it's just not right.
Ugh, this is why you aren't supposed to trademark modern lexicon. I suppose that Soul Calibur V isn't going to include Nightmare's Soul Edge weapon of choice? Oh and flat-surfaced, three dimensional objects are now illegal, as they have edges on them.