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Monster Cable's reign of legal terror has resulted in several things
over the years -- a tiff with the Chicago Bears over the "Monsters of
the Midway" nickname, a lawsuit against a minigolf company, and
eventually even a hard ban on the pages of Engadget -- but we can't
say we ever expected the target of a Monster lawsuit to try and use
the case for cheap free publicity. Well, surprises come in all forms:
the delightfully-named Fanny Wang is now proudly proclaiming that it's
being sued for copying Monster's Beats headphones and trying to score
some free good press -- even though it appears that Fanny's headphones
are indeed a fairly close copy of Beats. (Just check the image above.)
To give you an idea of the ridiculousness at work, Fanny's presently
hosting a copy of the Beats design patent and Monster's complaint on
its own website, right next to a rebuttal of the charges. Fanny claims
its headphones have different packaging and minor design differences
such that "no reasonable consumer would likely confuse the two," which
we suppose is arguably true -- but we'd also point out that Fanny's
original press release proudly proclaims that "the same sound engineer
who designed the Beats by Dr. Dre acoustics tackled the Fanny Wang
collection." Copy, coincidence, or crafty PR strategy? You be the
judge... for now.
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