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Monster Cable has been filing shakedown suits

Need Money? Take Over A Successful Business Or Sue One!
Is Monster Cable using the American judicial system as newfound form of revenue?

Monsters Battle It Out Denver Post
It's a pre-emptive move to foil what could be years of legal wrangling.

Mad Martian spanks Monster Cable
A great story about one small company who prevailed against Monster Cable. Read the letter to Noel Lee explaining why he doesnt own the word Monster. You may be surprised to learn that the word has been in use for centuries. ?

This site also contains many interesting links to other cases involving Monster Cable and other companies that have tried to monopolize words in the English language. One company claimed it had all rights to the word Potatoes.

A Vintage Battle
Check out a small clothing store, Monster Vintage fights against Monster Cable. More links to similar stories about Monster Cable and a GREAT photo of the MONSTER CABLE SUCKS truck.

The death of common sense
Mark Lemley, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Ski Industry rallies for the Snow Monsters
Real ski industry people are risk takers, not sissies.

Who are they going to sue next? Websters Dictionary?

Monster Cable is a lawsuit machine

Want to be a defendant?
It doesnt matter whether your business is tires, television, or toys. Monster Cable will be happy to run up your legal costs if you use the word monster in any way. Check out more than 100 pending cases at the Trademark Trials and Appeals Board.

Vastly over-priced Monster Cables are a rip-off. Here's another reason not to buy them.

A trademark monstrosity

Monster Cable sues those who use M-word

Daily Journal Extra (Aug. 30, 2004)
A tribute to the slimiest lawyer of all Thats what Noel Lee calls his own general counsel and we couldnt agree more.

They want to drown us in legal debt
But according to a trademark-law expert, Monster Cable may be stretching the limits of trademark protection beyond anything legally reasonable.

A great Sopranos episode?
The choice between giving away your business identity and licensing it back or going out of business due to court costs reminds me of the "either your signature or your brains go on this contract," scene in The Godfather.

Monster Cable Products, Inc. apparently made a deal with Satan
and managed to copyright the word "monster". Now they're suing everything in sight with that word in the title.

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