[Adraghast]

What’s it going to take to get Hacker News commenters to stop perpetuating the myth that trademark holders are required to be litigious assholes if they don’t want their trademarks to lapse?

[duxup]

Probably people posting some helpful information about that?

[Adraghast]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monster

Hope this helps!

[freehorse]

But there is no logic or legal ground for trademarking the word "monster" or the green/white colours in a logo. It is all about bullying smaller companies using their much higher budget.

[asdff]

When you pay for an expensive legal team on retainer you probably need to get them to start bringing in money for the org to justify their size. From the article it seems like they just troll for any sort of putative copyright violation and just roll the dice.

[mtrower]

Of course there is, is literally their mark of trade in their space. That kind of needs to be defensible to combat fraud.

What’s not okay is how it’s being “defended” here. This is just abuse.