Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s John Walker has written a fascinating summary of the case that Future Publishing, the publishers of Edge Magazine, had brought against the notorious trademark troll Tim Langdell and his company Edge Interactive Media. Last year, Langdell was stripped of his trademark “edge” in a battle with Electronic Arts.
And to think, it all started with this little quote from iOS game developer Mobigame, published on the mobile gaming site FingerGaming:
We have legal issues with a man named Tim Langdell, says Mobigame’s David Papazian. If you already asked why Soul Edge (the Namco game) was called Soul Blade and later Soulcalibur in the US, you have your answer.