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Apparently Monster Cable has a history of suing left and right, see http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Monster%20Cable%20Pr.... or http://madmartian.com/legal/

E.g. they sued Disney for Monsters Inc, also the job posting site monster.com (which now has a link to monster cable in the footer)...

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They used to be notorious for frivolous lawsuits. I personally found it amusing how badly they got played by Beats, as documented at http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-h... and elsewhere.

My personal favorite example of absurd litigation was their threat to sue Blue Jeans Cable, documented at http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/. The response from Blue Jeans is seriously awesome.

Everyone, stop what you're doing and go read the response from Blue Jeans Cable. Its owner wrote it. He's an ex intellectual property lawyer named Kurt Denke.

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/response041408.pdf

That. letter. is. glorious.

Holy crap. I count over 100 cases of Monster suing people/companies so I have zero sympathy for them in this case. The real kicker on Monster Cable is that their products aren't even worth the price being outperformed by "inferior" cables costing way, way less[1][2].

[1]-http://gizmodo.com/282725/the-truth-about-monster-cable---gr...

[2]-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxfLXH6qe9w

Yes Monster Cable is a very shady company, and even though they are a good source of entertainment of just how stupid some of their attacks are, this one could actually be legit.

But being such a shady company, I hope this fails and goes nowhere. Poetic justice.

Monster Cable has always been the punch line to a joke about how gullible some people are. That they are a litigious company does not surprise me in the least. I am in no position to judge whether or not Beats Music misled them, but if anyone could understand that someone might tell you something untrue in order to develop a more favourable business position, they should.

Wow, the monster link in the footer is terrible. We're they required to do that? That's BS.

What about Monster energy drinks?

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