{"id":2298,"date":"2013-04-06T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2013-04-06T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T14:30:21","slug":"compiler-author-demanded-ownership-of-all-programs-written-using-his-compiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/06\/compiler-author-demanded-ownership-of-all-programs-written-using-his-compiler\/","title":{"rendered":"Compiler author demanded ownership of all programs written using his compiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(from 1982. Blogged now because &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edge_Games\">the named individual who apparently came up with this scam<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/P9kFa\">http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/P9kFa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(for those that haven&#8217;t been following: four years after Langdell tried to bully an award-winning iPhone game into giving him their money, using his invalid trademark to threaten legal action &#8230; the USPTO has finally started cancelling each of his trademarks. Trademark law is FUBAR: 4 years for a fraudulent(*) TM to be cancelled? Ouch.)<\/p>\n<p>(*) &#8211; my opinion, but: read the case notes &#8230; he apparently committed blatant fraud to keep-alive a trademark that legally had already expired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from 1982. Blogged now because &#8230; the named individual who apparently came up with this scam) http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/P9kFa (for those that haven&#8217;t been following: four years after Langdell tried to bully an award-winning iPhone game into giving him their money, using his invalid trademark to threaten legal action &#8230; the USPTO has finally started cancelling each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,23,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}