Meatpacker Hormel has met with defeat in its courtroom attempt to invalidate the registration of the trademark SpamArrest for an email-screening service (Ron Coleman (Nov. 27; TTABlog, Nov. 28). Our earlier coverage: Jul. 9, 2003 and Apr. 19, 2007.
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on December 6, 2007
Meatpacker Hormel has met with defeat in its courtroom attempt to invalidate the registration of the trademark SpamArrest for an email-screening service (Ron Coleman (Nov. 27; TTABlog, Nov. 28). Our earlier coverage: Jul. 9, 2003 and Apr. 19, 2007.
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