Legal Opinion
Linda Suchanek v. Sturm Foods, Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 22, 2014No. 13-3843PublishedCited by 195 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
This case is about coffee. Not just any coffee — it is about the individual coffee pods that are used in the popular Keurig eoffeeraakers. The Keurig system solved a problem with which coffee drinkers had struggled for years: how to make individual portions of fresh-brewed coffee in a tidy, flavorful, easy, and relatively inexpensive way. The defendants, Sturm Foods, Inc., and Treehouse Foods, Inc., wanted to enter the market for Keurig-eompatible pods once patent protection expired, but they jumped the gun in a way that the plaintiffs who hope to represent a class, believe…
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