We’ve reported several times on the doings of a litigant who has asserted trademark rights over the use of the word “Edge” in videogames and related products and aggressively gone after many outfits whose names include that not-unusual word. Now another court, this time in Britain, has handed him a stinging rebuke. [Rob Beschizza, BoingBoing]
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The rebuke is nice but I don’t see why this guy isn’t doing jail time for fraud on the court.
I intend to trademark the use of the word “middle.” Another revenue opportunity!
If there ever was a more clear cut case of this guy being silenced simply because he is not a large company, I don’t know what is. Copyright law doesn’t have provisions in it that ‘if you are a small fry, you get judicial rebukes, but if you’re a corporation you get eminent domain over whatever you may like,’ but that’s exactly how it is enforced.