{"id":43061,"date":"2009-11-16T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091113\/1243326921.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-16T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T23:12:00","slug":"iphone-app-makers-get-edgy-over-bogus-edge-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43061","title":{"rendered":"iPhone App Makers Get Edgy Over Bogus Edge Trademark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, we&#8217;ve discussed how some guy named Tim Langdell seems to think that because he once had a game that had the word &#8220;edge&#8221; in the title and got a trademark for it (even though he hasn&#8217;t released a game in about fifteen years) that he can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090601\/0541265078.shtml\">go after anyone<\/a> who uses the word edge in a video game title.  EA is even working on getting Langdell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091001\/0430036388.shtml\">trademark dumped<\/a>.  In the meantime, he just keeps going with it, threatening plenty of folks.  It appears that some game developers are getting sick of this and have decided to fight back.  William Jackson alerts us to the news that game developers are now purposely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2009\/11\/13\/app-store-devs-get-edge-y-as-a-reaction-to-trademark-threats\/\" >adding the word &#8220;edge&#8221; to their game titles<\/a> in solidarity with those threatened by Langdell.  I wonder if that will get the message across?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091113\/1243326921.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091113\/1243326921.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091113\/1243326921&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=71fb6e961d32243a027fdc91209dc6a8&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=71fb6e961d32243a027fdc91209dc6a8&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=OiSjtouz2C8:T2V-t2bqrd8:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=OiSjtouz2C8:T2V-t2bqrd8:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=OiSjtouz2C8:T2V-t2bqrd8:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/OiSjtouz2C8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, we&#8217;ve discussed how some guy named Tim Langdell seems to think that because he once had a game that had the word &#8220;edge&#8221; in the title and got a trademark for it (even though he hasn&#8217;t released a game in about fifteen years) that he can go after anyone who uses the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}