Rpod floorplan plagiarism??

Well....bad post on my part yesterday.  Up until this morning I believed that FR had bought out Jayco and for the life of me I can't remember where I read it or heard of it.  I searched this morning and found that yes Thor Industries had taken over Jayco and now they can go head to head with FR.  Regardless....I should have kept my fingers under better control as I know better than to post without either knowing something for sure or having material to back it up.....Apologies to everybody.

Thor bought Jayco last year, I have heard nothing of FR buying it from them.

Well...FR solved the Jayco suit.....they bought Jayco so it will be interesting to see what happens with the Hummingbird.  When everybody is trying to copy the orginial then it would seem that one should go first to the orginial.   Currently the PODs seem to be outselling everything/body in their class......could explain why everybody is trying to copy it!

I guess sales were not being hurt from the clones. Especially since they were more expensive and did not appear to be better.  From the article it looks like FR did not meet the standards for an infringement lawsuit and felt is was not worth the expense to do more legal homework so they agreed with the judge to drop the suit.  It does not mean they had no case or would have lost.  I am glad FR is not rolling in money from ripping us off so that they can hire a bunch of high priced lawyers to sue whoever copies them. They are making a quality product (yes I have read about all the issues but they are not design issues but rather the result of trying to push too many out the door to reduce costs) and sell them at a more than reasonable price.  Thus they can beat the competition on the street and do not need a courtroom. 

Well, it looks like the lawsuit against Winnebago (unlike the one against Heartland) was thrown out by the judge and subsequently dropped by Forest River.