ThinkGeek's Best Ever Cease-and-Desist Letter

ThinkGeek, sister company to Slashdot, received a meticulously researched (except on one point) 12-page cease-and-desist letter from the National Pork Board. What had the meat lobbyists up in arms was an April Fools product from the TG catalog: Radiant Farms Canned Unicorn Meat, whose copy included the line "the new white meat." The NPB figured this was confusingly similar to their trademarked "the other white meat" (an advertising slogan the pork industry is considering retiring anyway). Geeknet, parent company of Thinkgeek and Slashdot, issued a press release apologizing for any confusion; you can read it on ThinkGeek's site (PDF), because the newswires refused to distribute it for some reason. Oh, and ThinkGeek has no intention of taking down the protected parody.

Comments

Re:Why did this make the front page?

[Sir_Lewk]

Note to the moderators: This might look to be offtopic, but then you should remember that slashdot is also owned by Geeknet.

Parent's point is that this is obviously a front page article because it's a slashvertisement for a website owned by the same company that owns slashdot.

Re:Why did this make the front page?

[hedwards]

That's worthy to note, however frequently we end up with news from companies making ridiculous abuse of the IP laws. This is just as absurd as a lot of them. They just should've disclosed the tie in.