No Really:Pork Board orders cease and desist to Thinkgeek over unicorn meat.

[tyler811]

Evidently The National Pork Board does not have a sense of humor.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — It's official: The National Pork Board says it knows unicorns don't exist.
The industry group says it was only protecting its trademark when it issued cease-and-desist warning to online retailer ThinkGeek for calling a fake unicorn meat product "the new white meat."

The rest of the bullshit story:

http://www.charter.net/news/read.ph...ass&action=1&lang=en&_LT=UNLC_WINWU00L1_UNEWS

 

[shortylickens]

Think Geek is my favorite store. I will do anything to support them.
Must go buy foodstuffs now.

 

[techs]

Geek. The other white meat.

 

[dfuze]

Heard about it on the NPR this morning. Got a good laugh out of it.

 

[waggy]

lol just read about this. its just silly

 

[sdifox]

Story made CBC up here too.

 

[shortylickens]

Fuck, this is reason enough to love ThinkGeek
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/9836/

 

[waggy]

Fuck, this is reason enough to love ThinkGeek
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/9836/

nice i like it.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Thinkgeek's response (yes, this is real)

Awesome.

 

[SMOGZINN]

In for a case.

 

[Iron Woode]

I want a can of Pegasus.

 

[xanis]

Thinkgeek's response (yes, this is real)


Awesome.

full of win.

 

[BoomerD]

While I think the whole thing is silly as hell, WTF did they expect?

They took a trademarked slogan and applied it to one of their products with profit as a motive.

 

[Spoooon]

While I think the whole thing is silly as hell, WTF did they expect?

They took a trademarked slogan and applied it to one of their products with profit as a motive.

You being serious?

 

[Ika]

I like how their stock name is LNUX

 

[waggy]

While I think the whole thing is silly as hell, WTF did they expect?

They took a trademarked slogan and applied it to one of their products with profit as a motive.

yes damn them. they intentionally confused people trying to buy pork with unicorn meat.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

While I think the whole thing is silly as hell, WTF did they expect?

They took a trademarked slogan and applied it to one of their products with profit as a motive.

This has to be a troll post?

 

[BoomerD]

You being serious?

Yes indeed. I seriously think the whole thing is silly as hell.

yes damn them. they intentionally confused people trying to buy pork with unicorn meat.

Trademark violations aren't always about trying to confuse someone into thinking that the "new" product is the same as the "old" product.

 

[halik]

Evidently The National Pork Board does not have a sense of humor.



The rest of the bullshit story:

http://www.charter.net/news/read.ph...ass&action=1&lang=en&_LT=UNLC_WINWU00L1_UNEWS

Sadly they have to do this (go after seeming trademark violation), otherwise the trademark would end up in public domain.

 

[BoomerD]

This has to be a troll post?

Since this is your post, of course it's a troll post...most of yours are troll posts.

(eyes GA's troll avatar)

 

[TridenT]

Fuck, this is reason enough to love ThinkGeek
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/9836/

That thing has been around for like 5 years now. It wasn't until like a year or two ago it finally started to show in the market. >.<