4SEMO.COM INC. v. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS STORM SHELTERS

Nos. 18-1998 & 18-2095.

939 F.3d 905 (2019)

4SEMO.COM INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee/ Cross-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS STORM SHELTERS, INC., Ingoldsby Excavating, Inc., and Bob Ingoldsby, Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, and Roman A. Basi and Alfred E. Sanders Jr., Intervenors/Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 7, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Kramer , Attorney, RIEZMAN BERGER, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Douglas D. Churovich , Attorney, SANDBERG, PHOENIX & VON GONTARD, P.C., Clayton, MO, Timothy Charles Sansone , Attorney, SANDBERG PHOENIX & VON GONTARD P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before Easterbrook, Sykes, and Brennan, Circuit Judges.


This appeal involves a long-running trademark dispute over ownership and misuse of a wordmark and logo for below-ground storm shelters. The story begins in 2005 when a Missouri-based home-remodeling firm known as 4SEMO.com Inc. began selling storm shelters manufactured by Southern Illinois Storm Shelters, Inc. ("SISS"), an...

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