Monster Cable goes after the wrong guy...

[JTK]

http://www.audioholics.com/news/indu...s-strikes-back

I love it. I'm going to deliberately try and throw Blue Jeans Cable some more business after this.

It's funny because the owner of Blue Jeans cable...is a lawyer.

Wait until you read what his response to this "cease and desist" letter looks like.

A favorite snippet of mine from this:

Further, if any of these patents or trademarks has been licensed to any entity, please provide me with copies of the licensing agreements. I assume that Monster Cable International, Ltd., in Bermuda, listed on these patents, is an IP holding company and that Monster Cable's principal US entity pays licensing fees to the Bermuda corporation in order to shift income out of the United States and thereby avoid paying United States federal income tax on those portions of its income; my request for these licensing agreements is specifically intended to include any licensing agreements, including those with closely related or sham entities, within or without the Monster Cable "family," and without regard to whether those licensing agreements are sham transactions for tax shelter purposes only or whether they are bona fide arm's-length transactions.

[Rob71]

That response was awesome. And that is a word I have not used in over a decade.

I think in three or four weeks after Monster's lawyers finish going over that response, they will quietly let the matter drop.

I say this because my observation has been that Monster Cable typically operates in a hit-and-run fashion. Your client threatens litigation, expecting the victim to panic and plead for mercy; and what follows is a quickie negotiation session that ends with payment and a licensing agreement. Your client then uses this collection of licensing agreements to convince others under similar threat to accede to its demands. Let me be clear about this: there are only two ways for you to get anything out of me. You will either need to (1) convince me that I have infringed, or (2) obtain a final judgment to that effect from a court of competent jurisdiction. It may be that my inability to see the pragmatic value of settling frivolous claims is a deep character flaw, and I am sure a few of the insurance carriers for whom I have done work have seen it that way; but it is how I have done business for the last quarter-century and you are not going to change my mind. If you sue me, the case will go to judgment, and I will hold the court's attention upon the merits of your claims--or, to speak more precisely, the absence of merit from your claims--from start to finish. Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.

[actionhank]

damn lawyers

I couldn't understand anything!

[Jared]

My favorite line:

If you sue me, the case will go to judgment, and I will hold the court's attention upon the merits of your claims--or, to speak more precisely, the absence of merit from your claims--from start to finish. Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.

[aygie]

Damn i like that guy! Nothing like speaking the shit out of someone!

[BStecke]

This insures that my business will stay with Blue Jeans. Good stuff!

[sssick]

I love when he says even if he is found guilty the damages wouldn't even reach four figures. LMAO.

I spent over $600 with them, so I feel I have done my duty in helping the fight against Monster.