PTO Junks Hormel's Objection Over Spam Trademark

By Ron Zapata ( November 28, 2007, 12:00 AM EST) -- Hormel Foods Corp. has lost its fight to prevent an Internet junk-mail filtering company from registering a mark with the word "spam" because the term, which was originally coined for the popular lunch meat, is commonly used to describe unwanted mail....

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