Legal Opinion
Specialized Seating, Inc. v. Greenwich Industries, L.P.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 11, 2010No. 07-1435, 10-2670PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
For more than 80 years, Clarín has been making x-frame folding chairs. In 1999 it applied for registration of one particular x-frame design as a trademark. The Patent and Trademark Office issued Registration No. 2,803,875 in January 2004. This is the registered mark:
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The principal register describes it thus: “a configuration of a folding chair containing an X-frame profile, a flat channel flanked on each side by rolled edges around the perimeter of the chair, two cross bars with a flat channel and rolled edges at the back bottom of the chair, one cross…
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