Legal Opinion
Pampered Chef, Ltd. v. Magic Kitchen, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 2, 1998No. 97 C 1091PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
MORAN, Senior District Judge.
The Pampered Chef, Inc. (Pampered Chef), a cookware retailer, brought this two-count action against Magic Kitchen, Inc. (Magic Kitchen), also a cookware retailer, in which it alleged that Magic Kitchen has copied the layout, price format, product number format and general appearance of Pampered Chefs catalogs and sales materials, thereby breaching Pampered Chefs exclusive copyrights on those materials (Count I); and that Magic Kitchen has intentionally violated Pampered Chefs exclusive right to use the “trade dress” of its catalog and any…
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