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Re:Monster Energy Goes After Indie Dev for Using the Word 'M... by burnte on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:21PM (#35445995)
Yeah, a good lawyer will actually be able to get Monster to settle, or at least win in court. This is a huge reach, no judge will ever say games and drinks are too closely related.
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Re:Monster Energy Goes After Indie Dev for Using the Word 'M... by onion2k on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:26PM (#35446043)
Except... Monster sponsor a lot of gaming things, so they might have applied for and been granted ownership of "Monster" as a trademark, designmark, and copyright within the gaming market as well. Also, I think there's at least one Monster branded supercross video game. They also have https://twitter.com/MonsterGaming

Suggesting they only have drinks interests is not correct.

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Re:Monster Energy Goes After Indie Dev for Using the Word 'M... by failrate on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:31PM (#35446726)
They registered "monster energy" and included games in the sea of producr categories: https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4805:lk...
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