Off topic, but I can't resist re-posting the following. It will bring tears of joy to anyone who hates patent trolls.

Blue Jeans Cable was mentioned on HN a few months ago in the context of Monster Cable sending them a letter threatening to sue them for patent and trademark infringement. An HN poster characterized their response letter to Monster Cable as: "That. letter. is. glorious."

Here are just a few snippets:

   if you file on this sort of basis, you are in
   Rule 11 frivolous-claim territory
   ...
   You are required, as a matter of legal ethics,
   to display good faith and professional candor
   in your dealings with adverse parties, and you
   have fallen miserably short of your ethical
   responsibilities
   ...
   Read the patents narrowly, and Monster loses;
   read them broadly, and Monster loses.
   ...
   I spent nineteen years in litigation practice
   ...
   I am "uncompromising" in the most literal sense
   of the word. If Monster Cable proceeds with
   litigation against me I will pursue the same
   merits-driven approach: I do not compromise with
   bullies and I would rather spend fifty thousand
   dollars on defense than give you a dollar of
   unmerited settlement funds.
   ...
   Not only am I unintimidated by litigation;
   I sometimes rather miss it.

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8848842