About that Monster claim for IP on their connectors.

[Eeyore]

http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/blue-jeans-strikes-back
etc ....

I decided to take a look at Monster's 'design patents' they claim are
infringed.

Talking of pots kettles black etc .... their own design patent D366,863
is an obvious rip-off of a Swiss LEMO style !
http://www.lemo.com/products/connector/connector_overview.jsp

They even mention the LEMO catalogue (for the B series) in the patent !
LEMO call it their 'chocolate block' pattern.

What a bunch of wankers Monster are.

I've posted Monster's pathetic design patent in
alt.binaries.schematics.electronic for anyone interested to view.


Graham

 

[[email protected]]

http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/blue-jeans-strikes-back
etc ....

I decided to take a look at Monster's 'design patents' they claim are
infringed.

Talking of pots kettles black etc .... their own design patent D366,863
is an obvious rip-off of a Swiss LEMO style !http://www.lemo.com/products/connector/connector_overview.jsp

They even mention the LEMO catalogue (for the B series) in the patent !
LEMO call it their 'chocolate block' pattern.

What a bunch of wankers Monster are.

I've posted Monster's pathetic design patent in
alt.binaries.schematics.electronic for anyone interested to view.

Graham

Monster are a vile patent troll company that uses legal bullying
tactics to try to scare the competition.
At one time they did make reasonable products. Now they make pure
garbage at an obscene price.

 

[Ian Thompson-Bell]

Monster are a vile patent troll company that uses legal bullying
tactics to try to scare the competition.
At one time they did make reasonable products. Now they make pure
garbage at an obscene price.

Not related to Bose are they?

Cheers

Ian

 

[Rich Grise]

On Apr 16, 8:43 am, Eeyore <[email protected]>

Monster are a vile patent troll company that uses legal bullying
tactics to try to scare the competition.
At one time they did make reasonable products. Now they make pure
garbage at an obscene price.

As long as there are fools with more money than sense, those people
(and others like them) will continue to make money hand over fist.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

They might have been decent quality at one point, but their advertsements were
always full of way too much hyperbole and misdirection... nor were their
prices ever that great.

I suppose the one good thing they did was to make consumers aware that things
like speaker wire gauge matter, even if they went so far overboard that people
now think 6ga. wire is needed for a 100W car audio system...

"People" that put huge car stereos in their cars are about an order of
magnitude higher in power than 100 Watts.

Even then, a six foot run from the amp to the driver is so short that
the milliohms difference would be not much more than completely
negligible.

I might argue that silver plated wire might be a bit better, and that a
hand made custom braided "Litz" style cable made from SPC teflon
insulated wire segments would be even better. There would be
significantly more silver, and at the skin, where it matters.

Even then, the detectable difference would still arguably be nil. Still
seems more appropriate than a parallel pair of 26 ga cheapo "speaker
cord".

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

Monster are a vile patent troll company that uses legal
bullying tactics to try to scare the competition.

Agreed. I still snicker at their attempt to make the word monster their own.
[/QUOTE]

Geez... I looked at their "list". How utterly sad they are.

IME their stuff is not all that bad, especially when bought for below-market
prices at say, Parts Express.

Expressly reamed. Even at half price, they suck. Also, it means that
they made money... something I would love to see get curtailed.

 

[Kevin Krell]

Monster has been trying this intimidation stuff for ages, even with
businesses outside their product area.

Here was an attack against an old friend with a Halloween industry
on-line business. You'd think that "monster" might have had prior use
in this category.

http://www.madmartian.com/legal/