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Monster Cables Pushes Around the Wrong Small Company

Posted by Zonk on from the keeps-the-electricity-demons-out dept.

Alien54 writes "Audioholics has a fun read regarding a recent legal dustup involving Monster Cables. The well-known (some might say notorious) cabling company sent a cease and desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable over a supposed patent violation. What the Monster folks couldn't have known was that Blue Jeans president Kurt Denke used to be a lawyer. His response is as humorous as it is thorough. ' Let me begin by stating, without equivocation, that I have no interest whatsoever in infringing upon any intellectual property belonging to Monster Cable. Indeed, the less my customers think my products resemble Monster's, in form or in function, the better ... If there is more than one such connector design in actual use by Monster Cable as to which appropriation of trade dress is alleged, of course, I will require this information for each and every such design. On the basis of what I have seen, both in the USPTO documents you have sent and the actual appearance of Monster Cable connectors which I have observed in use in commerce, it does not appear to me that Monster Cable is in a position to advance a nonfrivolous claim for infringement of these marks.'"

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  1. Re:Once again... by mcmonkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    How long until this shows up on fark, linking to the story on /., about a story on gizmodo, ...

    I have mod points, but find no +1 sad. Is it that hard to follow the link to an original source, and leave credit in the summary? "I found [link to source] on Joe's web log," rather than, "Here's a summary of the summary found on [link to Jo's log]." But I guess that would require the subby to RTFA.

    Then again, what should I expect from the group that supports use of wikipedia by college students as a referenced source for research papers.

    (Yes, I am going for troll mods.)

    (No, I'm not really going for troll mods, but hope that by mentioning troll mods I'll get funny or insightful instead.)

    (I just jinxed it, didn't I?)

  2. Re:The word "owned" comes to mind by Falstius · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wonder if he checked the veracity of the letter before responding. It would have been an awfully funny April Fool's joke by one of his employees.