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Monster cables "Bully-boy-tactics" fail, they messed with the wrong person

  • 18-04-2008 3:04pm
    #1
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭


    Monster Cable possibly messed with wrong person, they sent a cease and desist letter to Blue Jean Cable about their Tartan cables for a possible IP infringement. Unfortunately what Monster Cable and their lawyers did not foresee is that the owner of the company was a former lawyer by profession.

    Full article here

    Well worth the read, I love it when the underdog wins.


Comments

  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I was tempted to post this when I read Kurt Denke's letter: It really is a brilliant read especially if you're legal/justice inclined. also covered over at Gizmodo: whom seem to have their own personal reservations against Monster.


  • #3
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Overheal wrote: »
    I was tempted to post this when I read Kurt Denke's letter: It really is a brilliant read especially if you're legal/justice inclined.

    I think you need to be technically inclined as well. Who are these Monster cables, and why is this such a big story?


  • #4
    haz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭haz


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Well worth the read, I love it when the underdog wins.

    Switchcraft won against use of Neutrik trade dress infringement for an alleged copy of the Speakon connector back in 2002, but this sounds like an attempt to protect the cosmetics of the connector rather than the patented function (which isn't Monster's). Could be a huge field for lawyers who want to learn the technicalities of guitar FX boxes and PC case modding because copying is rife.


  • #5
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    I think you need to be technically inclined as well. Who are these Monster cables, and why is this such a big story?

    I originally posted this in the Computers & Technology forum and it was moved here

    Monster Cables are a well known manufacturer of audio cables. They love going after smaller companies selling expensive cables, even though their cables are cheap and quite low quality mass produced crap. They think a single letter will stop a company from making the product that supposedly infringes upon their IP


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