Hormel Back on The Spam Offensive

Anonymous Howard writes "After an xapparent setback in litigation, Hormel Foods is again pursuing actions against entities and organizations over the 'spam' trademark. According to the web site of DSPAM, an open-source statistical anti-spam filter, "Anti-spam software manufacturers may be in for a rude awakening. Hormel Foods Corporation and Hormel Foods LLC have recently filed for extensions to oppose or to cancel many new and existing spam-related trademarks and are even filing a few technology trademarks of their own. The DSPAM project, a popular open source and freely available spam filtering application, has already received two such notices of opposition from the trademark trial and appeal board. The complete history can be viewed here. This came about a year after the software's user community scrounged up the fee to file for a trademark...""

Comments

Re:Spam, Velveeta and onions

[Tony Hoyle]

I'm guessing velveeta is a kind of cheese. Not one I've heard of though (google says it's made by kraft, but not what it actually is).

Cool new word

[afabbro]

After an xapparent setback in litigation

Xapparent? Sounds like a cool new word.

Nice "editing," Timothy.