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]]> By: Daniel Steger http://www.stegersaurus.com/?p=85&cpage=1#comment-290 Daniel Steger Sat, 30 May 2009 19:04:56 +0000 http://www.stegersaurus.com/?p=85#comment-290 The majority of his business seems to me to be less about funding indie game developers (and the number of games he's funded is questionable at best, as you have already seen elsewhere) and more about protecting the use of a common english word in the entertainment business. It's not "every court" and everyone else that has agreed with the trademark. It's that companies don't want to waste their resources on going to court against trademark trolls so they roll over if the price is low enough for them. The U2 case for The Edge was fought and dismissed so clearly it's not an "every court" case as you claim. And as for Apple? They protect their rights to a reasonable degree. You can't go calling yourself Apple Computers, but they don't abuse ownership of the common english word of "apple". They don't go suing Applebees for having Apple in their name. The trademarking of common English words is ridiculous anyway and should NOT be allowed and should be considered an abuse of the trademark system. In other words, I don't think trademarking edge should even be allowed, whether he has it or not it may simply be a remnant of the old, broken trademark system. The majority of his business seems to me to be less about funding indie game developers (and the number of games he’s funded is questionable at best, as you have already seen elsewhere) and more about protecting the use of a common english word in the entertainment business. It’s not “every court” and everyone else that has agreed with the trademark. It’s that companies don’t want to waste their resources on going to court against trademark trolls so they roll over if the price is low enough for them. The U2 case for The Edge was fought and dismissed so clearly it’s not an “every court” case as you claim.

And as for Apple? They protect their rights to a reasonable degree. You can’t go calling yourself Apple Computers, but they don’t abuse ownership of the common english word of “apple”. They don’t go suing Applebees for having Apple in their name. The trademarking of common English words is ridiculous anyway and should NOT be allowed and should be considered an abuse of the trademark system. In other words, I don’t think trademarking edge should even be allowed, whether he has it or not it may simply be a remnant of the old, broken trademark system.

]]> By: Joe http://www.stegersaurus.com/?p=85&cpage=1#comment-289 Joe Sat, 30 May 2009 15:43:13 +0000 http://www.stegersaurus.com/?p=85#comment-289 Ah man that's cold. I dont know this guy from Adam, but from what I read he was one of the first indie game publishers back in the late 70s and has funded over 180 indie game developers to get their start in the industry. EDGE is the only indie game developer/publisher left from the 1980s from what I can see. All his company has been doing is protecting and enforcing their trademark EDGE that they own along with Future Publishing. And you think its cool to attack him for that? Even though every court, every trademark office, and big companies like Namco all agreed he was right? Not cool man, not cool. And I checked, looks to me like they were developing their game Mirrors way before EA announced Mirror's Edge so if they are annoyed about that then maybe they have a right to be. Big company tramples on small indie developer and indie developers support big guy and dump on indie developer ... yeah, that makes so much sense. Way to go supporting the IGDA and indie developers man. And saying Edge and Future can't protect the word EDGE but Apple can protect APPLE? Yeah that made a bunch of sense too. Ah man that’s cold. I dont know this guy from Adam, but from what I read he was one of the first indie game publishers back in the late 70s and has funded over 180 indie game developers to get their start in the industry. EDGE is the only indie game developer/publisher left from the 1980s from what I can see. All his company has been doing is protecting and enforcing their trademark EDGE that they own along with Future Publishing. And you think its cool to attack him for that? Even though every court, every trademark office, and big companies like Namco all agreed he was right? Not cool man, not cool. And I checked, looks to me like they were developing their game Mirrors way before EA announced Mirror’s Edge so if they are annoyed about that then maybe they have a right to be. Big company tramples on small indie developer and indie developers support big guy and dump on indie developer … yeah, that makes so much sense. Way to go supporting the IGDA and indie developers man. And saying Edge and Future can’t protect the word EDGE but Apple can protect APPLE? Yeah that made a bunch of sense too.

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