He really appears to have relished flexing his legal muscle in crafting his response. His rebuttal only improves with each paragraph. Nice for a lawyer to be one of the good guys...
"I assume that Monster Cable International, Ltd., in Bermuda, listed on these patents, is an IP holding company and that Monster Cable's principal US entity pays licensing fees to the Bermuda corporation in order to shift income out of the United States and thereby avoid paying United States federal income tax on those portions of its income;"
I don't think this is going the way Monster expected it to go.
Ooohhh, ouch! That is a brilliant response. One can't help but feel a little uplifted after seeing a small company stand up for its rights against a behemoth who attempts to persuade solely via its size and financial resources.
He should use this opportunity to hire someone competent to design the Blue Jeans Cables website, and then convert the amazing publicity he's generating into sales.
Perhaps he could turn this into the tipping point for his company. Right now, the site is so hideous, I wouldn't trust it with my credit card information.
Brilliant. Blue Jeans Cables is a plucky company. I've regarded them quite well in the past, and now even more so. I think I know where I'm buying my next set of cables from :)
If it's for digital devices, your next set of cables ought to be the cheapest ones you can find that meet the spec that you'd like them to support. It is pointless to buy fancy cables--in digital, it either meets the spec and works, or it doesn't meet the spec and fails to work. More than 10 bucks for pretty much any short-run cable would be nuts. HDMI 1.3 spec (the kind that'll carry 1080p and even higher) cables can easily be found for under 10 bucks.
Even in analog signals, a quality pure copper cable of sufficient gauge with quality connectors put together correctly, is all that matters. All of the BS from Monster Cables (and other "boutique" cable vendors) has clouded the market with ridiculous nonsense. Blue Jeans Cables appears to eschew that nonsense, and build quality "normal" cables. They are a little pricey, but not terrible, I guess...maybe two to six times the price I'd pay, vs. the 10 to 100 times Monster charges. What amuses me is that if you were to buy one of the "low end" Monster cables (which are relatively small gauge), it would perform measurably worse than bulk 10 or 12 gauge copper cabling from an electronic parts outlet and cost significantly more.
