Meat packer sues email filter vendor

Tinned ham by any other name

By Egan Orion

Wed Jul 02 2003, 08:55

HORMEL, a US meat packing company, is suing email filtering vendor Spam Arrest for alleged trademark infringement, according to the Washington Post.

The slaughterhouse company apparently believes that the name of the software firm might dilute its trademark on tinned scraps of pork.

Executives at Spam Arrest think Hormel's being hyper-sensitive and should "...can it." Trademark lawyers doubt that Hormel will win, as the term "spam" to denote unsolicited commercial email seems to have taken on a generic meaning, impossible to stuff back into the tin.

The comedians at Monte Python's Flying Circus would be appalled. µ

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