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Tim Langdell has until Friday October 15th to inform all licencees of his ‘edge’ trademark that he no longer has legal ownership of the name. A United States district judge made the order at the very end of what has been the most damaging and humiliating week in Langdell’s controversial …
Read More »EA slams Langdell
Publisher Electronic Arts alleges that Tim Langdell intended to deceive” the United States Patent and Trademark Office with his treatment of the Edge trademark. Tim Langdell, the owner of Edge Games so routinely embroiled in trademark disputes, had previously fired accusations at EA over its ambitious 2008 FPS Mirror’s Edge. …
Read More »Apple in iPad legal dispute
Apple has bought the iPad trademark from Fujitsu for an undisclosed fee following months of debate as to which company owned the name. Fujitsu previously claimed it owned the rights to the iPad name for a handheld computing device trademarked in 2003 that featured wi-fi and Bluetooth technology. However another …
Read More »Langdell hits back in EA Edge fight
Earlier MCV reported that Tim Langdell’s confrontational use of the Edge trademark may be coming to an end – but now the man himself says this is not so. The Edge Games boss told Develop that the suggestions that EA is closing in on the controversial ‘edge’ trademark are untrue. …
Read More »Langdell Edged out in trademark dispute
Tim Langdell’s confrontational use of the Edge trademark may be coming to an end, marking the end of one of the most popular legal tirades the games industry has ever experienced. A new legal document in circulation suggests that the Edge Games boss will likely lose trademark protection on the …
Read More »Sony Motion Controller naming nears
Sony will in all likelihood finally announce the official name for its PS3 Motion Controller at its GDC press conference in around two hours time – and it seems as if ‘PlayStation Move’ is the odds-on favourite. Joystiq reports that SCEE has in the last few hours filed a trademark …
Read More »Sony trademarks PS Cloud
It has emerged that PlayStation platform holder Sony has trademarked the name ‘PS Cloud’ – and it did so just one day after OnLive lifted the lid on its streaming games technology at GDC last week. OnLive is a new games system based around the concept of cloud computing – …
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