Apr 22

Written by: Renegade
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:00 AM

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

The best parts are all near the end of the article there, but it's all very much worth the read.

Basically, Monster Cable sued the wrong people. Kurt Denke of Blue Jeans Cable has 20 years in litigation, so... The blood-bath begins!

Kurt ever so eloquently tells Monster what they can do and how to do it. Threats? Fantastic! This guy has balls the size of basket balls!

“As for signing a licensing agreement for intellectual property which I have not infringed: that will not happen, under any circumstances, whether it makes economic sense or not.”

“I say this because my observation has been that Monster Cable typically operates in a hit-and-run fashion.  Your client threatens litigation, expecting the victim to panic and plead for mercy; and what follows is a quickie negotiation session that ends with payment and a licensing agreement.  Your client then uses this collection of licensing agreements to convince others under similar threat to accede to its demands.  Let me be clear about this: there are only two ways for you to get anything out of me.  You will either need to (1) convince me that I have infringed, or (2) obtain a final judgment to that effect from a court of competent jurisdiction.  It may be that my inability to see the pragmatic value of settling frivolous claims is a deep character flaw, and I am sure a few of the insurance carriers for whom I have done work have seen it that way; but it is how I have done business for the last quarter-century and you are not going to change my mind.  If you sue me, the case will go to judgment, and I will hold the court's attention upon the merits of your claims--or, to speak more precisely, the absence of merit from your claims--from start to finish.  Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.”

WOW! What a way to say “BRING IT!”

It's a very enjoyable read.

Cheers,

Ryan

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