Langdell Loses His Edge

[poiuppx]

"Given the suspect nature of Dr. Langdell's representations to both the USPTO and the Court concerning plaintiff's current and future sales and business activities, it is an open question whether plaintiff's business activities legitimately extend beyond trolling various gaming-related industries for licensing opportunities," wrote Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court.

Wait a second. Judge actually used the word "trolling"? Wow.

Oh Shit....Legal system can get you for trolling?

...and thus ended the internet.

 

[tkioz]

You should NOT be able to trademark a common English (or any other type of) word, it's one thing to trademark a name like Nintendo or Sony or a phrase such as Electronic Arts but it's completely bullshit to trademark words like Edge.

IP laws around the world need to be reworked in a major way, when you've got companies trade-marking common words (what's next Of? The?) and corporations patenting parts of the human bloody genome (not applications for it, but the human genome itself, and then suing hospitals over their use of that bit of DNA to detect cancer) it's absurdly obvious that there is something seriously wrong with the law.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

"Given the suspect nature of Dr. Langdell's representations to both the USPTO and the Court concerning plaintiff's current and future sales and business activities, it is an open question whether plaintiff's business activities legitimately extend beyond trolling various gaming-related industries for licensing opportunities," wrote Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court."

The Judge called him a troll! Hahahahhaha!

 

[Lyinar]

As kingaelfric stated, the term "patent troll" has been been around a while. According to the Source of All Knowledge (i.e., Wikipedia), it's been in use since at least 1993, and was popularized around 2001 when Intel's chief lawyer started using it instead of "patent extortionist" to refer to the people who were sitting on patents with no intention of actually doing anything with them, but were suing his company over them anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll

 

[cabalistics]

If this is settled can EA give us some real news on Mirror's Edge 2 please

 

[Delusibeta]

As kingaelfric stated, the term "patent troll" has been been around a while. According to the Source of All Knowledge (i.e., Wikipedia), it's been in use since at least 1993, and was popularized around 2001 when Intel's chief lawyer started using it instead of "patent extortionist" to refer to the people who were sitting on patents with no intention of actually doing anything with them, but were suing his company over them anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll

The irony is that the internet usage [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29] (same site) of "trolling" has been kicking around since about 1992 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29#Etymology]. So, yeah. Swings and roundabouts.

 

[Ldude893]

All repeated trolls end up the same way in the end.

 

[Thorvan]

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"Given the suspect nature of Dr. Langdell's representations to both the USPTO [http://www.uspto.gov/] and the Court concerning plaintiff's current and future sales and business activities, it is an open question whether plaintiff's business activities legitimately extend beyond trolling various gaming-related industries for licensing opportunities," wrote Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court.

That judge just used the word trolling in a court case.

Spoiler

Success, on both this and the OP.

 

[Zombus]

plaintiff's business activities legitimately extend beyond trolling various gaming-related industries for licensing opportunities

Did a judge just use the word trolling seriously? This is almost as big a victory as Tim Langdell getting his comeuppance; but it feels weird to be actually cheering for a games publisher winning a lawsuit, I guess I have mr. Kotick to thank for that.

 

[Mekado]

hahaha, that's what happens when you try to waltz with the big boys Langdell, you should have stuck to bullying micro-studios.

You dug your grave, EA just pushed you in and is going to bury you forever.

Good riddance.

 

[Something Amyss]

There was no way this would ever fly.

 

[Scobie]

DELETED

 

[Danpascooch]

WOOOOOOOT!

Fuck you Langdell!

Seriously, just hearing stories of his crap was enough to piss me off, I hope he ends up in jail.

 

[Darkong]

Feels weird to be suppporting EA in this way...

Seriously though, how much of a douchebag do you have to be to make EA into the good guys?

 

[Pilkingtube]

Feels weird to be suppporting EA in this way...

Seriously though, how much of a douchebag do you have to be to make EA into the good guys?

Activison?

 

[Unknower]

For great justice!

 

[Akalistos]

WOOOOOOOT!

Fuck you Langdell!

Seriously, just hearing stories of his crap was enough to piss me off, I hope he ends up in jail.

Relax dude, relax. I'm going to teach you a new word.(ok, two) Counter-suing! Meaning that He's gonna face E.A. again for their money lost during the first trial. Then, he'll be broke, go directly to jail, won't pass go and won't collect his 200$... wait!?!?