There was no SPAM before Hormel invented it
and it most certainly can be trademarked -
just like "threepeat".
For at least five years that I know of, Hormel
didn't object to anyone using spam as long as
it was not all upper-case, and published such
in their trademark use section.
Looking at Spam Arrest's website, they are all
over the map with their spelling of spam. I
don't blame Hormel. Spam Arrest should make
up their mind, even if it's just for good
marketing sense.
Per Jessen wrote:
mouss wrote:
If I understand, "spam" is a generic word. I am also convinced that
"arrest" is a generic word. Now accepting "spam arrest" as a trademark
is beyond me, as is all this trademark and patent stuff...
Yep. We recently had a trademark application rejected by the EU Common
Trademark people with the reasoning that it consisted of two words,
both of which were generic or common words.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
