J. Clarke wrote:
rather than fighting it out. Unfortunately, Disney caved when Monster
Cable went after them--they would have done the world a real service by
smashing that outfit flat and forcing it into bankruptcy then buying up the
scraps and shipping them to Japan to be melted down and turned into
something useful.

Ah, but Disney would not want a sensible decision on trademarks on
the books. They spend a lot of time and effort threatening people
in a similar fashion, and they have a lot more trademarks to "protect."
It is clearly cheaper for Disney to pay the upstart a few pennies
than to face some *other* upstart in court somewhere using Disney's
own arguments against it.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.