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2021
Mary Gattineri sues Williams-Sonoma and Lifetime Brands over brownie-pan invention claim
Lawsuit filed
Mary Gattineri sued Williams-Sonoma Stores, Lifetime Brands, and former Williams-Sonoma manager Teresa Musgrove. The complaint claims Gattineri invented the Perfect Brownie Pan and alleges that Musgrove showed her prototype to Chicago Metallic representatives without her knowledge or consent; the article reports these as allegations, not findings.
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The second new piece of evidence, according to the complaint, was when Gattineri’s former colleagues at the store claimed that Musgrove, who had signed the non-disclosure agreement on behalf of Williams-Sonoma, had shown Gattineri’s prototype to representatives from Chicago Metallic without Gattineri’s knowledge or consent.
The complaint was filed in Middlesex County Superior Court on Aug. 24 and names Williams-Sonoma as the defendant, along with Lifetime Brands and Teresa Musgrove, a former manager at Williams-Sonoma.