Come on, really? Monster Cable is like the trust fund douche that drives an Audi, wears Lacrosse, and gets pedicures. He tries so hard to get people to like him, but at the end of day, runs home to his father who happens to be the DA and rats on everyone smoking pot. He just doesn’t get it and neither does Monster Cable who is sueing Monster Transmission for trademark infringement.
The last time we featured a story about Monster Cable suing the little guy, Noel Lee himself (or a PR flack) left a message defending their tactics. But just because a company has the world Monster in its name, doesn’t mean they need to waste precious money or time dealing with a whack company in court. This is a frivolously lawsuit and hopefully the precedent set by previous court battles will allow this case to be thrown out with little cost from Monster Transmission, a Florida-based automotive builder and supplier.
Previous statement left here:
I am aware of your concerns regarding the lawsuit that we filed against Monster Mini Golf, a Rhode Island-based company that franchises miniature golf establishments across the U.S. (currently 24 locations). Suffice to say we take this lawsuit very seriously and filed only as a necessary measure to protect our established trademark rights.
Regardless of what false representations have been circulated about Monster, we are not a faceless corporate giant out to squash legitimate business concerns and rising entrepreneurs. We are in fact, a family-owned company that relies heavily on our brand name and reputation in order to continue serving our customers. We have always tried to provide our customers with the highest performance products at an affordable price. While we are best known for our cable products, we also manufacture high performance accessories in business areas ranging in home theater, computing, gaming, portable entertainment and power management. To protect these business areas, we have sought and been awarded trademarks for each respective category. In addition to the areas above, in the past 30 years, we have also expanded the categories including sports and other lifestyle ventures. According to the trademark law, we must enforce our marks or we will lose them and they will become generic.
We were trying our best to avoid the lawsuit, and we are trying our best to settle the lawsuit.
We appreciate your viewpoints and hope you will review the attached documents to fully understand the facts before making judgments against myself or my company.
http://www.monstercable.com/monster_truth
Monsterously,
Noel Lee
nlee@monstercable.com
So, going off the wording in that message, one can see how Monster Cable sees it within the legal realm to sue Monster Transmission since Monster Cable makes automotive-type parts. You know, speaker cable and such, which is exactly like transmissions.
I haven’t purchased a Monster Cable product ever and constantly pushed alternatives during my tenure at Circuit City. The company is full of themselves and must serve kool-aid out of the water coolers to keep employees. This is insane and infuriating at the same time.
Audoholics via Eng
The guy who wrote that song Monster Mash, should sue Monster cable for trademark theft.
It’s kinda funny that they would even try it. Their website and u.s. trademark pdf shows that they don’t own the name “monster transmission”. so what’s they point?
Actually, monster has a legitimate claim against Monster Mini Golf, a large corporation that tried to register the world Monster by itself. They finally agreed to use only Monster Mini Golf and not any other use of the word Monster. So I’m thinking maybe this Transmission thing is the same?
But that doesn’t excuse Monster from selling vastly overpriced cables that don’t work any better, setting up fake displays that make their cables appear to work better when there is an obvious deception behind the scenes as documented by Engadget three times, and being a snake-oil foisting company that cares more about making money than actually making a product that is really better than the competition in real world terms.
Ya this guy at Monster sounds like a real douche bag to me. And after reading this I’ll never use another Monster product again.
But good luck with your lawsuit.
Why have then not taken on Monster Jobs (http://www.monster.com/) perhaps cos they know they won’t win. Never buy a monster cable!
I am going to trademark the word Fast… Then start filing the suits… While I am at it, trademarking the word Quick and Quik.
For the love of all things holy, I am going to be a rich SOB.
Think what you what of monster but they have a legitimate point. Monster transmissions could have changed the spelling and it would have been just fine. Remember the WWF lawsuit? Granted this was a different subject but it’s a name thing. Monster affiliates itself with Monster.com by the way.
If the United States allows you to sue for reasons like this, then it is your freedom to sue. But constantly suing because another business has the word “Monster” in their name is just foolish. The average person with common sense could not mistake one company from the other when it comes to what was posted here. It would have to take a village idiot to confuse the two types of businesses which could be the reason for the lawsuit. They are doing it to protect the idiots of America!
Reminds me of when T-Mobile’s parent company wanted to trademark that Magenta color they use for their logo.
Will we one day see an attorney assigned to every newborn at birth to protect him or her when walking through the path of life? In the beginning, man was afraid and had to fight off ferocious beasts. These beasts still remain but have evolved into lawyers.
“wears lacrosse”?
Perhaps Lacoste?
I would definately go after Monsters in My Pocket
Huge $$ there left over from the 80’s and early 90’s