RANCHO CORDOVA, CA - The owners of a new indoor miniature golf course are being sued by a Bay Area-based electronics firm over the name of their business. Monster Cable Products of Brisbane filed suit in Sacramento federal court this week against the owners of Monster Mini Golf in Rancho Cordova along ...
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The company Monster Cable has a rather infamous reputation for way too aggressively trying to enforce its trademark on the word "monster." It's sued or threatened just about everyone , including the TV show Monster Garage, a clothing store called MonsterVintage, Disney for the movie Monsters, Inc., the makers of Monster Energy drink, the Chicago Bears for having the nickname "Monsters of the Midway," and the Boston Red Sox for offering "Monster seats" on top of their famous "Green Monster" wall.
Found 83 days, 18 hours, 20 minutes, and 18 seconds ago
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Monster Cable -- the company that makes those horrendously overpriced audio and video cables -- is suing Monster Mini Golf because it claims the mini golf course are ""are likely to cause confusion" with it's brand.
This is the same company that sued Disney for Monsters, Inc. (the movie) and the Boston Red Sox for "Monster Seats" on the big green monster.
Full Story .
Found 83 days, 18 hours, 20 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
teledyn.com
Eric Goldman has a short blurb describing the outcome in a copyright lawsuit where a title company apparently infringed on the copyright of another company by reusing its web-based "rate calculator" on its own site without a license. Where the case got bizarre was that the copyright holder tried to claim that the title company now owed it every single cent it made, which amounted to $766 million in revenue -- even though (1) a license for the calculator would run $500 for the year and (2) it's difficult to see how all of the company's revenue could have been because of that single rate calculator.
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bendblogs.com
Monster Cable -- the company that makes those horrendously overpriced audio and video cables -- is suing Monster Mini Golf because it claims the mini golf course are ""are likely to cause confusion" with it's brand.
This is the same company that sued Disney for Monsters, Inc. (the movie) and the Boston Red Sox for "Monster Seats" on the big green monster.
Full Story .
Found 83 days, 18 hours, 20 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
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The company Monster Cable has a rather infamous reputation for way too aggressively trying to enforce its trademark on the word "monster." It's sued or threatened just about everyone , including the TV show Monster Garage, a clothing store called MonsterVintage, Disney for the movie Monsters, Inc., the makers of Monster Energy drink, the Chicago Bears for having the nickname "Monsters of the Midway," and the Boston Red Sox for offering "Monster seats" on top of their famous "Green Monster" wall.
Found 83 days, 18 hours, 20 minutes ago
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The company Monster Cable has a rather infamous reputation for way too aggressively trying to enforce its trademark on the word "monster." It's sued or threatened just about everyone , including the TV show Monster Garage, a clothing store called MonsterVintage, Disney for the movie Monsters, Inc., the makers of Monster Energy drink, the Chicago Bears for having the nickname "Monsters of the Midway," and the Boston Red Sox for offering "Monster seats" on top of their famous "Green Monster" wall.
Found 83 days, 15 hours, 23 minutes, and 48 seconds ago
rightsideoftech.com
Monster Cable is suing Monster Mini-Golf in California for trademark infringement. Monster claims :
…miniature golf courses "are likely to cause confusion" with Monster Cable's portfolio of trademarks, which include Monster Park in San Francisco.
Really? People going out looking for a ball game and/or ludicrously expensive TV/Audio cables are going to end up at Mini-Golf? I doubt it and Techdirt said it best:
That's why we have the lovely "moron in a hurry" test. If a moron in a hurry wouldn't be confused, then there's no violation.
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