{"id":936,"date":"2003-07-06T00:50:51","date_gmt":"2003-07-06T04:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/06\/spam-attack\/"},"modified":"2003-07-06T00:50:51","modified_gmt":"2003-07-06T04:50:51","slug":"spam-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/06\/spam-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a185'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/spam.gif\" width=\"191\" height=\"188\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>A legal battle for the right to incorporate the word spam in the trademark<br \/>\n        of software companies has begun in the US. Hormel Foods, the makers of<br \/>\n        Spam luncheon meat, are challenging a technology company in Seattle which<br \/>\n        wants to trademark SpamArrest, the name of its<br \/>\n      software for email users. <\/p>\n<p>Derek Newman, the Seattle lawyer who who represents SpamArrest, said: &quot;Inexplicably,<br \/>\n      Hormel is challenging anyone who uses the word spam as part of a trademark. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/online\/spam\/story\/0,13427,992082,00.html\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A legal battle for the right to incorporate the word spam in the trademark of software companies has begun in the US. Hormel Foods, the makers of Spam luncheon meat, are challenging a technology company in Seattle which wants to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/06\/spam-attack\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}