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chx

@trebach @stevel @tobi @stux another good one, albeit longer is Kurt Denke's reply when Monster came knocking on the door of his audio cable company. First he tears them a new one on technical matters then comes *this*

"Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it."
15 December at 0:36 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chx.contact
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zeruch

@chx Denke's letter I kept up in my office for years as a kind of reminder of "personal principles" and for it's reminder of the joys of collateral estoppel (as a kind of follow on joy to benefits of taking things to the discovery phase). Bullies deserve drubbing. With brutality and malice on a scale to instill nothing but an event horizon of deterrent fear.

15 December at 1:33 | Open on mastodon.social
William Canna-bass

@chx @trebach @stevel @tobi @stux
I had to look up Collateral Estoppel, so.
#TIL about Non-Mutual-Defensive #CollateralEstoppel where by "a defendant attempts to prevent a plaintiff from re-litigating an issue that was previously decided against the plaintiff in another lawsuit against a different party."

To put it another way, if Mr. Denke's defense was successful, and ruled on in his case, then Monster Cable couldn't attempt to use that failed issue against a different cable manufacturer when Monster Cable sued them for alleged Patent and Trade dress infringement.

(#Source
legaldictionary.net/collateral
)

@chx @trebach @stevel @tobi @stux
I had to look up Collateral Estoppel, so.
#TIL about Non-Mutual-Defensive #CollateralEstoppel where by "a defendant attempts to prevent a plaintiff from re-litigating an issue that was previously decided against the plaintiff in another lawsuit against a different party."

15 December at 4:00 | Open on kolektiva.social
William Canna-bass

@chx @trebach @stevel @tobi @stux

I did some digging and apparently Monster Cable sent a Cease & Desist for infringing on "Design Patents" so I looked one of the claimed ones up.
patentimages.storage.googleapi
It is just a drawing, not a unique idea.

"Design patents represent nothing more that that: design. There is no technological content within design patents. The net effect is that Monster cable suing Blue Jeans is like you suing someone who copied the custom paint job on your car."

#Source
audioholics.com/news/monster-s

@chx @trebach @stevel @tobi @stux

I did some digging and apparently Monster Cable sent a Cease & Desist for infringing on "Design Patents" so I looked one of the claimed ones up.
patentimages.storage.googleapi
It is just a drawing, not a unique idea.

15 December at 4:08 | Open on kolektiva.social
circfruit

@chx @trebach @stevel @tobi @stux It’s always funny when someone threatens a lawyer with litigation. 😂

15 December at 11:30 | Open on fosstodon.org
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