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"Cease and Desist" is Legalese for "Please, Make Me Look Like an Ass"

By Colin Samuels

Via Slashdot:

[Monster Cable] sent a cease and desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable over a supposed patent violation. What the Monster folks couldn't have known was that Blue Jeans president Kurt Denke used to be a lawyer. His response is as humorous as it is thorough. "Let me begin by stating, without equivocation, that I have no interest whatsoever in infringing upon any intellectual property belonging to Monster Cable. Indeed, the less my customers think my products resemble Monster's, in form or in function, the better... If there is more than one such connector design in actual use by Monster Cable as to which appropriation of trade dress is alleged, of course, I will require this information for each and every such design. On the basis of what I have seen, both in the USPTO documents you have sent and the actual appearance of Monster Cable connectors which I have observed in use in commerce, it does not appear to me that Monster Cable is in a position to advance a nonfrivolous claim for infringement of these marks."

I have no use for them right now, but I'm going to stop on my way home and load up on Blue Jeans cables.

Well played, sir. Well played, indeed.

Full post as published by Infamy or Praise on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).