NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: Mythical Product Prompts Real Lawyer Letter
MN-based law firm Faegre and Benson reportedly sent a 12-page cease and desist letter complaining of “Infringement and Dilution of Trademark Rights of National Pork Board” to ThinkGeek.com over an April 1 joke story about canned unicorn meat titled, “Pâté Is Passé. Unicorn - The New White Meat.” CNET News reports:
[T]he National Pork Board remained unamused--particularly with the thinking geeks' declaration that canned unicorn meat was "the new white meat."
Perhaps some of you are aware that the National Pork Board has wanted you to know for quite a few years that its own porcine offering was "the other white meat."
ThinkGeek.com’s in-house counsel should fire back this short, pithy response: “We will stop marketing canned unicorn meat as ‘the new white meat’ when pigs fly.”
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