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Exactly!

Because a few jokes about unicorn meat will degrade America's appreciation of pork. Certainly.

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No, but they might degrade the exclusive identity of pork as "the other white meat."

If enough people were to make jokes about "the other white meat" referring to various products, the pork board could theoretically lose the trademark altogether.

Except the screen grab showed the text as being "the new white meat", which is what has me a bit confused.

Well, IANAL, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't need to be a word-for-word copy. The bar is "confusingly similar." See f.ex: http://www.registeringatrademark.com/trademark-law-basics.sh...

Ah, yeah, when I'm writing code, I frequently do something like:

Foo *f = Other Foo();

They're so confusingly similar. ;-) But more seriously, I do agree with your point, if there's confusion (or the possibility), they would have to defend the trademark. I guess I just have a different bar for "confusing" than others.

I was making "$foo, the other white meat" jokes about 15 years ago in Jr High. I'm pretty sure its diluted already.

Cats, the other white meat.

What I find particularly interesting is that the slogan "The Other White Meat" is targeted specifically to infringe upon the marketplace position of chicken as "white meat".

The NPB is completely fine with messing up chicken, but is concerned about the Unicorn Meat market infringing on pork products.

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