Magic Kitchen LLC v. Good Things International, Ltd.

Opinion

SUZUKAWA, J.

INTRODUCTION

From the mid-1980’s until 1993, defendant and respondent The Pampered Chef, Ltd., purchased a kitchen device known as the Tartmaster from plaintiff and appellant Kitchen Connection, Inc. In about 1993, Pampered Chef learned that the patents on the Tartmaster’s design had expired, and it began sourcing copies of the Tartmaster (which it called the Cut-N-Seal) from defendants and respondents Good Things International, Ltd. and Ten Mark Corporation. Kitchen Connection discovered no later than mid-1993 that Pampered Chef was sourcing Tartmaster copies, but it waited…