I agree with you. In fact, it's glorious that trademark is qualitatively different from copyright. It lets us see what the world would be like if copyright degr

I agree with you. In fact, it's glorious that trademark is qualitatively different from copyright. It lets us see what the world would be like if copyright degraded, for example. In this case, we see that, because trademark does degrade if not defended, well, it has to be defended (no matter how silly it seems to do so). No doubt the Pork Board thought it was silly, but they really have little choice. If trademark was like copyright or a patent right, then they could have chosen to simply ignore this without much risk of losing their rights.