Legal Opinion
Custom Vehicles, Inc. v. Forest River, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 7, 2007No. 06-2009PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Custom Vehicles sued Forest River for trademark infringement, lost on summary judgment, and appeals. In 1999 Custom (actually a predecessor, but we can ignore that detail) had created a product that it called “Work-N-Play.” It was a van the interior of which could be converted by the owner in about an hour from a mobile office to a camper, or vice versa, so that he could, in Custom Vehicles’ words, “work out of it through the week” and “play out of it on the weekends.” Hence the name, which Custom Vehicles first registered with the Patent and Trademark Office in 2000 as…
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