Creator of ‘lunch meat’ canned Spam, recently lost a bid to trademark their company name for unsolicited emails. The company does not want software and internet companies using the term in their marketing and promotional campaigns. Hormel Foods is afraid that the general public will one day believe that the company stole the term “Spam” for their canned meat product. Moreover, the company pointed out there were more Google search results for ‘unsolicited email spam’ than for the spicy meat.

I wanted to test Hormel Food’s claim and did an image search on Google for “spam logo” which returned 18 images and only 3 of which were the Spam logo. One of those three was X’d out and was featured in an anti-spam article.