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Hormel Fights to Defend Spam Name


— July 30, 2003

“Hormel Foods has a message for a Seattle software company: Stop, in the name of Spam!”

“The canned-meat company filed two legal challenges with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to try to stop SpamArrest from using the decades-old name Spam, for which it holds the trademark.”

Perhaps they should have sued Monty Python years ago, before the whole thing got started. Read all about it here from the AP.


“Hormel Foods has a message for a Seattle software company: Stop, in the name of Spam!”

“The canned-meat company filed two legal challenges with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to try to stop SpamArrest from using the decades-old name Spam, for which it holds the trademark.”

Perhaps they should have sued Monty Python years ago, before the whole thing got started. Read all about it here from the AP.

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