Comments on: Hormel Loses Law Case Over the Word “Spam”

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:13:04 +0000

Actually, Ted, it stands for SPiced hAM.

By: Ted Bruner

Ted Bruner — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:48:31 +0000

SPAM: Swift Premium (H)AM. It was introduced by Swift & Company Meat Packing before computers were even made with vacuum tubes. (They were struggling for existance - embryonic, you might say.) Corporate takeovers and time and now Hormel considers it theirs. C’est la vie?

By: Bob H.

Bob H. — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:47:48 +0000

If Hormel wanted to preserve their trademark, they should have remained with their Meat Products and stayed away from the Internet with the exception a Web Adress.
IMHO.. Spam is too Salty, and SPAM is trash mail that wastes my time.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:37:12 +0000

If Hormel wanted to preserve their trademark, they should have done something way back when Monty Python did their Spam skit, since that’s what inspired the use of the term for “unsolicited commercial email.”