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iFart featured on The Daily Show…with real attorneys!

Joel Rothman — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:58:37 +0000

Your intrepid apps law bloggers, the iFart lawyers, were there in spirit last night when Wyatt Cenac asked, incredulously, whether iFart and Pull My Finger had “real attorneys….jewish attorneys?”

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Besides ROFL, the team of Houchin and Rothman are pleased to report that we are at least 50% real attorneys, and after Houchin’s bar mitzvah this weekend we will be 100% real.

Kevin says it well over at HouchinLaw:

What does all this prove? It proves that a laugh is worth at least a buck. iFart Mobile sells for $0.99 on the App Store. I don’t know the exact sales numbers, but I’m betting over 500,000 people have purchased the app by now.

A LAUGH IS WORTH A BUCK.

It also shows that when you become wildly successful with a creative endeavor, there is going to be something that comes along to complicate the success. In this case it was a competitor. It seems like there is always some price for success.

Thank goodness iFart had some real attorneys for this one. Stay tuned for more fun.

Popular iPhone game EDGE pulled over TM dispute

Joel Rothman — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:18:24 +0000

Video game maker EDGE GAMES has convinced Apple to remove iPhone puzzle game Edge from the App Store based upon claims of trademark infringement. To read the article, click here.

Owner of EDGE GAMES, Tim Langdell, has been universally derided on blogs over his agressive trademark claims. Here are some examples on Kotaku, TIGSource, and Cult of Mac. The general consensus is that EDGE GAMES, which has not released a game in years, is misusing its TM rights and behaving like a troll. The blogs assert that Langdell has not produced a game in 15 years yet sits on the International Gaming Developers Association board of directors.

According to FingerGaming, Mobigame has been served with a draft complaint from an attorney representing Langdell and Edge Games. FingerGaming also says a second indie iPhone developer who shall remain nameless has received a cease and desist letter from Langdell.

TIGSource has pulled together an impressive collection of resources on Langdell who it accuses of having “abused the law and employed underhanded business tactics for 30 years for his own personal gain and at the expense of honest and hard-working developers.”