![]() In May 2009, game developer Mobigame's iPhone title Edge was removed from Apple's App Store in the US and the UK due to lawsuit threats by Tim Langdell. In June 2010, Edge Games filed a lawsuit against Electronic Arts over Mirror's Edge, requesting damages and a court injunction against further infringement. An EA spokesman said the company had been unsuccessful in its attempt to resolve the dispute, which led to the filing of the petition. According to a report by gaming blog Kotaku, the USPTO database lists the trademark "Mirror's Edge" as "abandoned" as of Sept. Langdell went on to accuse EA of using the settlement talks to "play for time", and claimed that EA had abandoned efforts to register "Mirror's Edge" as a trademark in September 2008. In a statement, EA announced that "While this seems like a small issue for EA, we think that filing the complaint is the right thing to do for the developer community." Tim Langdell responded to these claims in an e-mail statement on September 30, claiming that Edge had in fact not threatened EA with litigation and that 2009 had been spent negotiating an amicable settlement on the use of the trademark. ![]() EA's petition came after continued threats of legal action by Edge Games with respect to the title of EA's 2008 game Mirror's Edge, despite EA's ownership of common law trademark rights to the phrase. In September 2009, Electronic Arts petitioned the US Patent & Trademark Office to cancel a range of registrations associated with Edge Games. The website also states that they are porting some of their Commodore 64 games to WiiWare.Įdge Games and Edge Interactive Media have been involved in a number of disputes over the "EDGE" trademark.Įlectronic Arts petition for trademark cancellation ![]() Until the availability of "Racers" for the PC in 2010, Edge Games had not released a new title since 1994, though the Edge website states that two other multi-platform titles: "Mirrors", and "Mythora 2" are "coming soon", as are the PS3 and other platform versions of "Racers". Softek's catalog includes several well known games, including: Fairlight, released in 1985, and Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal, released in 1987. At that time, it acquired the intellectual property assets of Langdell's former company, Softek Software, itself founded in 1980 in London, England.
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