corporation industry interactive entertainment founded 2005 headquarters chino california united states products rock band and guitar hero guitars website theantcommandos.com the ant commandos inc. tac is a designer manufacturer and distributor of peripherals and accessories for video game consoles based out of chino california . their flagship products are a line of corded and wireless guitar controllers for the playstation 2 music video game guitar hero . 1 2 in 2006 redoctane announced a lawsuit against the ant commandos alleging unfair competition trademark infringement and copyright infringement 3 regarding their production of the guitar controllers . the ant commandos announced a counter claim on september 21 2006 filed in the united states district court for the central district of california against activision publishing inc. and redoctane inc. 4 alleging that activision and redoctane copied the trade dress and design of their controller . both suits were settled in december 2006 in an agreement which allowed tac to continue selling guitar hero peripherals . 5 in 2007 activision parent company of redoctane again filed suit against tac as well as against several former employees and clients of redoctane now working for tac alleging copyright infringement and misappropriating trade secrets among other charges . 6 the guitar controllers that are sold are the freedom vs the rocking vs the shredder and basses of all kinds . they also sell the tac thunderbox 28r amplifier that can be used to play a real electric guitar a real microphone and has audio inputs for any game console . references edit kuchera ben . red octane sues makers of third party guitar controllers ars technica . september 20 2006 . kuchera ben . freedom v wireless guitar controller for guitar hero ars technica . august 25 2006 . sinclair brendan . redoctane sues guitar manufacturer gamespot . september 20 2006 . ign staff . the ant commandos tac files counter claim against redoctane and activision ign . september 21 2006 . brendan sinclair . guitar hero suit settled gamespot brendan sinclair . activision sues guitar hero developers gamespot external links edit the ant commandos official website this united states video game corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the ant commandos & oldid 730990594 categories video game companies of the united statesunited states video game company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa ol edit links this page was last modified on 22 july 2016 at 05 25 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view