Dear Tim,
Please pardon the familiarity. I feel I have got to know you a bit over the last few years. My name is Paul.
I’m sure you appreciate by now that the game is pretty well up with your US “Edge” trademarks. Flail as you may, it is a done deal that they will be cancelled, and you will have been very lucky to get away without a judicial finding of fraud against you.
Now, this case makes for an interesting study in the use and abuse of civil procedure. I’m quite keen to follow it up with some – probably rather lengthy and very boring – analysis of what went on. More as a training exercise for would-be lawyers than as a schlock-horror Tim Langdell ate my babies sensationalist type thing. It would be all the better if I am able to come at the story from your side as well.
I’m posting this on the NeoGAF thread because I know you read here, and you have an alarming propensity to not receive communications by any other means!
I do understand that you might be reluctant to get in touch, particularly since I have lambasted you a bit in public. So I make now the following undertakings:
1) If you contact me by email (I told you how to find me a few posts back, it's not that hard) then, beyond the mere fact of you contacting me I will not post (on NeoGAF or elsewhere) any content of your messages or our conversations. I will consider them private.
2) If in the course of conversation I give you advice it will be advice in your best interests, and not spun shaded or otherwise slanted to suggest you do something that isn’t in your best interests. It might take a bit of time to work out what your best interests actually are though.
3) I won’t under any circumstances stop posting in NeoGAF and maybe elsewhere about this case and the consequences of it. But I will keep that separate from any private discussions we have.
Your call Tim. You may get in touch or not. That is your choice.
Yours sincerely
Paul (“phisheep”
