EA wants all EDGE Games trademarks

PostEA wants all EDGE Games trademarks by **tomvek** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:11 pm

EA's legal team has resubmitted a petition to revoke Tim Langdell's hold on all EDGE trademarks.

"Pending cancellation" are "EDGE", "CUTTING EDGE", "GAMER'S EDGE" and "THE EDGE", according to the filing.

EA's lawyers alleged that "Registrant or its predecessor fraudulently obtained, maintained, and renewed the Subject Registrations".

Mirror's Edge was targeted by Langdell and EDGE Games for infringement of copyright in late 2008. EA said "Registrant continuously threatened to file suit".

Langdell and EDGE Games have notoriously and aggressively protected the EDGE trademark from videogame-related use. On the receiving end over the years have been Future Publishing for its well-respected EDGE magazine, and more recently Mobigame for its iPhone game EDGE (this has been well documented on Eurogamer).

EA's Mirror's Edge was also targeted, and so the publisher's legal squad were mobilised.

Those legal papers have a blow-by-blow account of what both sides have been submitting since the case began in November 2009.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ea-wa ... trademarks

Awesome.

Langdell is such a banana split.

Mary wrote:Langdell is such a banana split.

I think that's one thing Xbots, SDF, Wiitards and PC Supremacists can all agree on.

I hope they destroy him financially.

Never thought I'd say this, but nice one EA.

That guy is just a banana split and deserves to be taken down a peg or two.

I remember reading about this a while back.

It's absurd, and although I don't know much about Trademark Law, surely EA have a case to over-ride him in court? I mean, fundamentally, the law is to prevent people from trading on your name and passing off their work as yours? Has he genuinely convinced himself that anyone is possibly confusing any of those titles with that obscure little gooseberry fool thing he did so many years ago?

What a plonker.

Are there laws against this sort of abuse in this country, similar to the laws against cyber squatting?

If it was all so straightforward he'd be buggered by now, so it obviously isn't.

I reckon this fight may just get bloodier before we see the bitter end of it...

So does EA want the trademarks? or do they just want them to be taken away from Langdell?

satriales wrote:So does EA want the trademarks? or do they just want them to be taken away from Langdell?

I imagine it's the former. Can't expect EA to go all Superman after spending so long acting like Galactus. Need some middle ground first.

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