Tim Langdell Faces Contempt of Court Proceedings

[That's Funny]

I'm gonna refrain from using the word Edge in a delightfully bad pun.

Moving on, good thing this bastard is getting his just deserves.

BTW, My Captcha today is ourpro sites, I laughed.

 

[Pilkingtube]

Sorry for my ignorance but What exactly has this Langdell guy done to piss off Future?

Quite a lot. The man claims to own the word "Edge", so he's been targeting games like Edge, magazines like EDGE (owned by Future), and on games that have "EDGE" in their title, he's forced them to register it under his patent. So a game like Edge of Twilight was pretty much a patent of EDGE games, the studio he owns (But hasn't made a game in a pretty long time.). This thing dates all the way back to around Mirror's Edge in 2008. Langdell sued EA, and EDGE magazine printed an article on the game to divert his bullshit called "Mirror's. A Game By Edge." Eventually, EA counter-sued, and Langdell is pretty much going up shit creek without a paddle.

At least that's what I recall of it. Correct me if I missed a few things.

huh, sounds like a real dick, but then again their's always people out there that like to patent stuff that they can't possibly keep track of(like that Spanish woman who tried to claim ownership of the sun, man, tax collection was gonna be a ***** right there.)

A few things that i've picked up from around the internet more recently:

1) Langdell has dragged Future into the EA suit in the US (where EA are trying to cancel all of Langdell's trademarks), meaning that Future has to defend the 'Edge' trademark it bought from Langdell for a cool £250,000 + £25,000 in total, meaning that they've now got to pay money to defend the very guy who screwed them over.
2) Langdell attempted to 'pass off' Edge magazine (Future) as something of his own creation, under license from him, despite them paying a bucket load of money to him in order to make him go away.
3) Langdell attempted to claim ownership of Edge's own logo by saying that Edge stole their magazine logo from him decades ago, he forged evidence in court to try and prove this (saying that he made the logo in 1991(ish).. but it was discovered that the disk he had the logo on was saved using Windows 95, ouch).

So yeah, Future is pretty pissed with him at this point, I can't really blame them to be honest, especially now that Langdell is desperately trying to pin this on Future since he's running out of legal paperwork to hide behind.

 

[TitanAura]

I have no remorse for bottom feeders. Tim Langdell deserves every comeuppance he gets.

Mobigames would have been completely screwed if Tim hadn't gotten greedy/arrogant and decided to poke the bear-nay behemoth-that is EA. EA crushed him with a mighty *splat* and Mobigames was finally rid of his harassment. I'm not EA's biggest fan, but in this particular situation, you do have to be thankful of the towering mega-publishers, in that their goals sometimes help the little guys even if only by coincidence.

 

[Scrythe]

Looks like Langdell is... *puts on shades* ...living on the edge.

How'd I do?

YYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

That's the problem with living on the edge: How easy it is to fall off [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylp5iKDFe10&feature=related]

 

[FalloutJack]

Looks like Langdell is... *puts on shades* ...living on the edge.

How'd I do?

YYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Hey, I did this in the LAST thread, why not?

I can't believe no one else has done this, especially after my post with Ms. von Karma.

Spoiler: He wanted to copyright the word Edge?

OBJECTION!

Also? Fucking brilliant.

OT: Langy is going to go down in history as the only sorry S.O.B. that ended up in a worse state than Jack Thompson.

 

[Pipotchi]

Off topic but EDGE magazine is actually pretty good at representing games as more than just a hobby for ill adjusted man children and they dont pull any punches with review scores. If its average it gets a five as it should.

OT I hope they Bury Langdell so deep we never hear from him again.

 

[samsonguy920]

I just read some more tales of Tim's insanity over in Rock Paper Shotgun. I'm surprised the judge herself isn't levying contempt charges on him with his worded attitude about her judgement in a public email.
This guy seriously needs to spend somea lot of time getting mental therapy.
I pity da fool.

 

[WorldCritic]

The crap this guy gets himself into never ceases to amuse me, and seeing him in such a losing battle is even better.

 

[MR.Spartacus]

Looks like Langdell just *puts on shades* went past the point of no return.

Wait, I screwed it up. Edged... away? Is far from the edge? Well, something like that.

Also, Mrs Justice? I thought Justice was the honorific by itself.

"went over the edge." of course. Looks like they might just lock this loon up too. Good.

 

[Hungry Donner]

He'll have a very difficult time fighting the contempt of court case, I suspect he'll try to settle and then move beyond this as quickly as possible. Although either way he's not going to be in a good position to handle EA.

From the site:

'"Children are our future." EDGE/THE EDGE donates 10% of its profits to charities and institutions for the benefit of children in need, at-risk children and sick children.'

Uhm... I might be mistaken, but I didn't think they had any profits?

Ha!

All proceeds from this post will be donated to nurse sick kittens back to health.

 

[Low Key]

I love it when assholes get what's coming to them.

 

[Eleuthera]

Also, Mrs Justice? I thought Justice was the honorific by itself.

I assumed Justice was really her first name...

OT: I don't think I've had as much fun following RL court cases ever before.

 

[Vohn_exel]

All proceeds from this post will be donated to nurse sick kittens back to health.

FOR TEH KITTEHS!

But seriously, this guys is crazy. I can't believe he got as far as he has. I mean seriously, he got like a boatload of money just to go away, and yet he STILL stuck around pestering people. Man, I guess this really IS what happens when you give a mouse a cookie.

 

[Username Redacted]

I'm very surprised (as far as I know) that Mr. Langdell didn't go after Edge(the wrestler) and The Edge(musician). To me patent trolls rank just above ambulance chasers on the scumbag hierarchy of "I hope there's a special place in hell for these dicks".