Adam Katz wrote: > If you own a company trying to *trademark* something with the word > "Spam" in it (e.g. "SpamArrest"), that infringes upon their trademark. > If you own a company with a product with the word "Spam" in it and > you don't try to trademark it (e.g. SpamAssassin, SpamCop), they won't > pursue (as it would be along fair use law rather than trademark law).
The EU trademark database has 44 hits on registered trademarks containing 'spam', including Spamhaus, Spamfighter, SpamTrap, noSpam Proxy, Spamfinder, SPAMNET and SPAMASSASSIN. /Per Jessen, Zürich
