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. The latest, sent in by reader Ben S., is that the target is now Monster Mini Golf in California .
Now, because this always comes up in the comments on posts like this, let’s address the key point that people always bring up, claiming that Monster "has to" enforce its trademark or face the mark becoming generic (like aspirin, kleenex or band-aids). That’s not quite true. It is true that you have to enforce the mark -- but only in cases where it’s likely t...
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Remember a few weeks back when my Monster Central remote suddenly stopped working ? If you didn’t, its no biggie, I still love ya. Anyway, here is a nice story about how Logitech handled a similar out of warranty issue with a Harmony remote. Instead of sending the guy packing and with the advice to buy a new remote - like Monster Cable did with me - they shipped him a brand spanking new remote. Yeah, I’m still a little burned that Monster didn’t do anything for me so... more
Fly Racing is proud to announce they have re-signed Andrew short to a two-year clothing and helmet endorsement contract. Short will compete in the 2009 AMA Supercross and Outdoor Series—as well as other selected events—wearing Fly Racing’s Evolution Race wear and the all-new Formula MX Helmet.
“We are very excited to have Andrew continue his relationship with Fly Racing,” states Fly Racing’s Terry Baisley, “He is a great racer and an ambassador for the Fly Racing brand that repre... more
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Kevin Cash puts the Red Sox on the board with a Red Sox home run into the Green Monster seats. That’s the first earned run Sonnanstine allowed against the Red Sox this season. That was also Cash’s first post-season plate...
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Ed Emberley From: letsgoshopping.sblo.jp Post Date: 2008-11-12 07:05:12
Here’s a roundup of movie-download services -- Apple TV, Vudu, Movielink, Unbox -- all of which have unperformed expectations. This won’t come as a surprise to Techdirt readers, as we’ve panned these products before . And the reasons they’ve flopped are frankly pretty obvious: high prices, restrictive DRM, and no easy way to move videos to the device of your choice. I won’t re-hash those arguments, but I think it’s interesting to compare the anemic d... more
Last month, we wrote about the plan by a variety of UK-based ISPs to use all of your clickstream data to target ads to you as you surfed. That is, if you were surfing a golf site and then went and checked CNN, the system would still know that you liked golf and might serve up golf ads on CNN. At least that’s the benign version of it. There are some serious questions raised by this. First of all, many people are likely to be uncomfortable with the idea that their ISP is watching what ... more
Slashdot points to a great Bruce Schneier article debunking the idea that "transparency" is better than privacy. People like David Brin argue that technological change is rapidly making the concept of privacy obsolete, and that instead of lamenting this fact, we should make sure that everyone , including the government, is subject to increased "transparency." But Schneier does a great job of explaining what’s wrong with this theory: the less power you have, the more important your ... more
A somewhat bizarre situation happened in Germany earlier this week, where various demonstrators at the popular CeBit trade show had their booths raided by German police , confiscating various gadgets for infringing on patents. Patent law is a bit different in Germany, allowing this type of seizure, but I can’t understand what sort of practical reason there could be for allowing such a thing. No one was directly selling these products, just demonstrating them. Second, confiscating the p... more
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