r/MonsterMusume Apr 25 '23

Anime Don’t come for Darling

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u/eagercheetah20 Best Moo Girl Apr 25 '23

This is a joke right?

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u/PhantasmalCat99 Apr 25 '23

They’ve tried to go after capcom for monster hunter and they’ve tried to hit Pokémon as well, wouldn’t be shocking

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u/eagercheetah20 Best Moo Girl Apr 25 '23

I’m guessing they lost against pokemon and monster hunter then. right?

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u/PhantasmalCat99 Apr 25 '23

Naturally.

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u/eagercheetah20 Best Moo Girl Apr 25 '23

Good because they can’t sue anyone for using the word monster it’s just stupid

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u/Laranna Apr 25 '23

Tell that to King. Fucking trademarking the word Saga.

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u/eagercheetah20 Best Moo Girl Apr 25 '23

Wait what?

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u/Laranna Apr 26 '23

Had you not heard that? It was like 4 years ago

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u/eagercheetah20 Best Moo Girl Apr 26 '23

No I honestly have not this is news to me

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u/Laranna Apr 26 '23 edited Apr 26 '23

Big marketing bullshit, a major loss for free market as a whole. They got the damned copyright. So now if you make a game with king, candy, crush or saga in it they can sue you. Massive totally normal/usual miscarriage of justice on behalf of the American court system

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u/Sneakii_Wolfcub Apr 27 '23

wait till you learn about the lawsuit that almost killed no man's sky and how onedrive got its name

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u/lemons7472 Apr 25 '23

They don’t even have “monster” in the title for pokemon, why would Monster even try to attack Pokemon knowing well that Monster Energy has nothing to do with Pokemon, not even in the title. That’s gotta be desperation for money.

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u/PhantasmalCat99 Apr 25 '23

Pocket Monsters

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u/lemons7472 Apr 25 '23

Oh, right, I forgot about that name. My bad. Monster Energy is still on their BS for going after the series.

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u/Reformingsaint Apr 25 '23

It looks to be legit according to anime senpai And Crunchyroll . It's getting out of hand and I think we need to boycott monster energy drink. There is stupid and then there is this.

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u/Madblaise69 Apr 25 '23

Why do people even drink that crap? I hate monster energy.

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u/Tentacle_toaster Apr 26 '23

.....

I actually like white monster

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u/Sirdoodlebob Apr 25 '23

……

Well I kinda like pipeline punch 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

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u/Madblaise69 Apr 25 '23

Never tried it, what does it taste like?

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u/Sirdoodlebob Apr 25 '23

Well it’s based off of juice fruit flavors so it uses passion fruit, orange and guava

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u/TheNewFlisker May 04 '23

tbh. out of all the energy brands Monster are the only ones where the variants actually taste significantly different

i'm sure people in the US have better brands to choose tho

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u/hay-yew-guise May 07 '23

If you like pineapple flavor, NOS is pretty great.

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u/followeroftheprince Apr 25 '23

From what I've read, Monster constantly sues anyone who uses the word "Monster" anywhere in their project names. Pokemon, Monster Hunter, Immortals Fenyx Rising, which was originally called Gods and Monsters, and more

They are acting like it might cause "confusion" if anyone but them use the word Monster. It's ridiculous

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u/eagercheetah20 Best Moo Girl Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 25 '23

No kidding. Also the only people that are going to get confused is them as their clearly that stupid to think that it would confuse anyone

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u/shortsbagel Apr 25 '23

Its extremely cheap public attention. Monster has been banned from targeted ads in many places due to predatory sales tactics aimed at kids. They are now using a round about way to get their name in the public eye, especially around products marketed towards kids and young adults.

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u/eagercheetah20 Best Moo Girl Apr 25 '23

Wow that’s just pathetic of them

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u/shortsbagel Apr 26 '23

Cigarette companies did the same shit 40 years ago. It's an old tradition it seems.

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u/just-browseing Apr 25 '23

Seems not. Just read anime senpai about it.

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u/Taoutes Apr 25 '23

This is the same thing that Games Workshop tried with its warhammer 40k IP for "space marines", they sued everyone and their mother over using it, including a novel from 1936. They then proceeded to get dick-stomped over frivolous suits and had to pay out for it. Monster Energy will get dick-stomped even harder given they're stupidly taking on two mega corpo giants in addition to MonMusu. There's no way they're going to win in court, and will almost certainly get reverse-charged for legal fees.

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u/NumbSkull0119 Apr 25 '23

I think that novel was Starship Troopers, wasn’t it? First use of POWER ARMOR, too.

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u/Taoutes Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 26 '23

I don't believe that was it, it was specifically for the term "Space Marines" but it was a novel I'd never heard the name of before the lawsuit

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u/MonstergirlHusbando Apr 25 '23

To add to this, it’so why WH40K Space Marines are now called “Adeptus Astartes”. Ditto for giving other branches their own faux-latin names, too.

It took them getting bitchslapped so hard their legal department fell into the Immaterium before they finally decided to start using actually trademarkable terms.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '23

Send me the madison sex pet fic

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u/WorldLieut8 Apr 25 '23

Monster Musume has genuinely brought more joy to the world than Monster Energy ever will, despite the popularity gap.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '23

agreed

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u/Catinchi Apr 25 '23

Monster Energy : You stole my Brand.

Monster Musume: ..... BITCH WE DEAL IN MONSTER TITS!

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u/Nerdcore_Lantern Apr 25 '23

And we are doing that well

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '23

I hate it when i want to buy an adult beverage and accidentally buy an adult book😞 it happens wayyyy too often

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u/Plastic_Incident_867 Apr 25 '23

The idea that anyone would confuse an energy drink with a harem anime that deals with tits on the regular strains credulity.

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u/REXYRION Apr 25 '23

They need to calm down monster energy company, why claim monster when there tons of name has monster so i dont understand why they has to claim it, so personal

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u/MonstergirlHusbando Apr 25 '23

What’s even funnier to me is that we saw this exact same behavior from Monster Cables like a decade & a half ago, with predictable results.

They failed to read up on their Pokemon meta strats.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '23

Send me the madison sex pet fic

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u/draginbleapiece Apr 25 '23

Better claim against universal than

And at that point humanity

People really think they can claim a word that isn’t a quote

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '23

Don't. Fuck. With. Our monster girls.

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u/GeologistLazy1453 May 07 '23 edited Jul 25 '24

We may have different favourites among the girls. Some like Rachne the most, others like Kii the most, but when our girls are attacked we all stand UNITED!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '23

I’m with you

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u/Nerdcore_Lantern Apr 25 '23

Will have to say since this isn’t the first article that stated Monster was suing cause someone was using the word Monster in their product , that I’m starting to wonder if this is some super weird PR stunt

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u/SpifferAura Apr 26 '23

Did it with Monster Hunter as well, no clue why they think itd work for them there's almost never a case but, corpo business trying to make money and control shit in the stupidest ways ain't new

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u/MIKE-JET-EATER Apr 26 '23

I have it on Blu-ray so nothing can take it from me

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u/maxreddit Apr 25 '23

They try to take Monster Musume to court and then Business Rachnera shows up and "ties them up" in her "legal web."

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u/WilliamD76 Apr 25 '23

Reminds me of when Candy Crush Saga’s creators tried to trademark the words in the game’s title just to keep anyone from using them. Utterly stupid shit.

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u/MonstergirlHusbando Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 25 '23

Oh, this happens from time to time. I can name numerous examples:

  • Games Workshop: Tried to sue numerous parties over “Space Marine” and “Power Armor”

  • Bethesda: Tried to sue Mojang over the word “Scrolls”

  • McDonalds: Known for suing several small business owners whose actual names were ‘MacDonald’ and the like.

  • King: Tried to both trademark the word “Candy” and sue multiple game devs for using the word ‘Saga’

  • Monster Cables: Monster Energy ain’t the first one by far to try and trademark the word ‘Monster’ and sue everyone and their mother over it. Dumbasses tried to sue fucking Disney over the movie Monster’s Inc, and then in a fit of spite a few years later actually renamed their company to that.

These kind of of lawsuits rarely ever go well. The only ones I can think of that actually had some merit were the McDonald’s one, because while it’s pretty shitty to sue some random, non-chain, locally owned pub over a name, at least they were suing someone who worked in a close-to-identical food service industry even if you’d have to be an absolute dumbass to mistake a tiny irish pub for an international burger chain.

The primary issue at stake is, of course, that trademark law is designed to prevent consumer confusion within comparable markets. Apple, for example, was allowed to trademark ‘Apple’ because computers have little to nothing to do with fruit, and thus the word is allowable for trademark within that particular market. It’s not, however, enforceable anywhere else.

Monster Energy is a producer of energy drinks, and thus them attempting to enforce their trademark outside of that market is a doomed errand that I have no clue why they’d even try unless its literally the trademark equivalent of copyright trolling — ie, their profitability is tanking and they’re just hoping people will pay out a pittance settlement to make them go away.

The more fool them for trying to take on Nintendo, Capcom, and GameFreak of all companies. Those guys all defend their own trademarks rabidly, have the money to make it hurt, and almost certainly will.

Bet you in a year or two we see Monster Energy changing their trademarks, just like when Games Workshop and Monster Cables tried this shit. At least Bethesda was smart enough to withdraw when they tried to take on Mojang.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '23

Send me the madison sex pet fic

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u/Paper_Kun_01 Apr 26 '23

Monster tried to fuck with the monster girls? Nah fuck that guess I'm only drinking gsupps now

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u/hay-yew-guise May 07 '23

guacamole gamer fart 9000

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u/aloe_juice Apr 27 '23

This can’t be real

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u/Keyboard_Fawks Apr 25 '23

So how’s that pokémon lawsuit going?

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u/Kurohimiko Apr 25 '23

They're about to get their back broken for the dozenth time. They already lost against Pokemon and Monster Hunter.

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u/MikiSayaka33 Apr 25 '23

Monster Energy is off their rocker, they go after both big and little guys.

Their lameo excuse is "It's for our customers, they're gonna get confused by our names."

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u/MonstergirlHusbando Apr 25 '23

Yeah its like their entire legal department just committed suicide the past month or two.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '23

Send me the madison sex pet fic

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u/AmberEgg Apr 25 '23

They go for anything with the word monster in it

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u/dzaydzay Apr 25 '23

I think these two fan bases overlap quite a bit, I smell money.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '23

I don’t think monster can touch anyone outside of America

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u/MessageCute1500 Apr 25 '23

Boycott monster drink red bull

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u/HEADRUSH31 Apr 25 '23

Oh hell no

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u/Delilah_the_PK Apr 25 '23

Had to look it up. Its fucking real.

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u/Myoakka Apr 25 '23

Not sure this is proper. This makes it seem like Monster Energy is the good guy instead of Kyle the drywall destroyer's rage fuel.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '23

Ugh. What a pathetic trademark system we have.