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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imagineGod" data-source="post: 7709048" data-attributes="member: 32454">I never said the rights holders should sue only in one particular order. I simply pointed out the obvious vexatious strategy by the failure of this hostile group of rights holders to challenge David Braben himself in 2012 and conveniently delaying their lawsuit until this this February 2017.Therefore, when any judge reviews this particular case, that judge will obviously notice the sequence of predatory practices by this new group of greedy litigators: (a) they were oblivious to suing David Braben when he launched the "Elite: Dangerous" computer game, (b) oblivious to suing the many other Elite Kickstarters using the same "Elite" IP, (c) only took notice when Spidermind Games launched an Elite inspired IP, and (d) these litigators only registered a corporate entity many days after Spidermind Games already launched on Kickstarter and months after Spidermind Games already received the same sort of licence granted to other third party publishers of the "Elite" IP.David Braben already owned Frontier Developments since 1994. Contrast this period of exercising the rights to the "Elite" IP with the obviously late corporate registration by the competing rights holders "Bell Elite Rights LLP" which was only incorporated on the 8th February 2017 in the United Kingdom. Also, it is important to consider that Ian Bell did not do anything substantial with his own share of the"Elite" unlike David Braben who launched a very successful "Elite: Dangerous" computer game via Kickstarter. So yes, all IP license holders are free to exercise their rights, but when the rights are shared between both David Braben and Ian Bell, it is important for us all to also recognize the obvious spite that may have sparked this particular lawsuit against Spidermind, who to remind us all here, still hold an official third party license from David Braben's Frontier Developments.</blockquote>

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