Monster Cable Driving Mini Golf Place Out of Business?

[admin]

Monster Cable is at it again firing up litigation against a Mini Golf franchise called Monster Mini Golf. Giant Monster Cable has already burdened Monster Mini Golf with nearly $100k in legal fees and it looks like there is no end in sight. This personally touches home to me as one of their mini golf facilities happens to be in my neck of the woods in New Port Richey, Florida. I can’t fathom the idea that a cable company would contend that a mini-golf operator is infringing its trademarks on a line of audio and video cables, and would go so far as to bring this kind of frankly silly litigation as a result. Mediation is set for this Wednesday and we wish Monster Mini Golf the best of luck in their noble fight.

Discuss "Monster Cable Driving Mini Golf Place Out of Business?" here. Read the article.

 

[Matt34]

UGH! That company will never get a red cent from me or any of my friends if I can help it.

 

[gene]

It would be really neat if this article got slashdotted

 

[jamie2112]

Best of luck to monster golf! I hope the judge throws it out and fines monster. This company sucks! Unbelieveable

 

[TICA]

Good Luck to Mini Monter

It's unbelievable that people actually have nothing better to do than to sue everyone, for no real reason.
If it was a life or death situation, like I'm used to seeing everyday, it would be a different story. It's done with no other people to enrich what's alredy over done.
Good luck to Monster Mini Golf and fight hard to win your case.
TICA

 

[jamie2112]

I am at a loss for words. Really really pissed off reading that. I hope their lawyer destroys noel lee. I won't even dignify spelling his name with capitols.Some company has got to derail this power tripping TOOLBAG.

 

[gene]

I think the bottom line is if enough consumers rally against these bully tactics, companies won't continue to persue them without the fear that they will lose their business. Of course I am not condoning such an action, just stating a personal belief

 

[jamie2112]

Like a monster cable burning.....,kind of like the burning of books by crazy religious folks. Except we would be right...

 

[jinjuku]

This article also need dugg. Is Kurt at BJC involved here in any capacity?

 

[jinjuku]

I submitted this to /. Could others please do like wise?

 

[Matt34]

This article also need dugg.

Yes it does, I was looking for the link to do this but didn't see it in the article.

 

[jwenthold99]

I submitted it to digg...

http://digg.com/tech_news/Monster_bully_showing_true_colors

 

[Matt34]

I submitted it to digg...

http://digg.com/tech_news/Monster_bully_showing_true_colors

You da man!

 

[jwenthold99]

You da man!

Hey, I do what I can

This is just so ridiculous... I can' believe I used to think that monster meant good....

 

[tomd51]

I submitted this to /. Could others please do like wise?

Tried to submit one and b/c I'm referencing the same URL as you or someone else referenced, they won't allow duplicates. Here's the URL, but I haven't seen it show up as a story yet, just when I tried to do my submission:

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=1702741

 

[jinjuku]

Tried to submit one and b/c I'm referencing the same URL as you or someone else referenced, they won't allow duplicates. Here's the URL, but I haven't seen it show up as a story yet, just when I tried to do my submission:

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=1702741

Submit the story but link to a different news source:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/05/27/monster-cable-sues-monster-mini-golf-in-monster-lawsuit/

 

[jamie2112]

It wouldn't let me post either. I will try another site..

 

[jinjuku]

Local News coverage

Check it out:

The customer interview didn't help

 

[tomd51]

Submit the story but link to a different news source:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/05/27/monster-cable-sues-monster-mini-golf-in-monster-lawsuit/

Thanks for the idea, jinjuku. I ended up linking to this thread for my submission, hopefully one of the submissions on /. ends up on their main page... -TD

 

[Jack Hammer]

For those that missed it or don't recall:
http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44459

Jack