A dozen years ago, local inventor Amanda Sima saw a messy problem in need of a solution.

“I was tired of her tipping up her restaurant cups to drink, like she did with her sippy cups at home, or knocking them over and spilling the entire contents,” Sima recalls of her daughter, then 2. “And bringing a reusable cup from home was not a solution. Kids love restaurant cups!”

The answer was JoJo Cups, spill-resistant plastic lids that Sima created and patented.

In 2018, Sima reached out to The Waddington Group, a Kentucky-based packaging company, about mass-producing JoJo Cups. Their talks continued into early 2019, Sima recalls.

What happened next is in dispute. Sima claims that Waddington’s parent company, Novolex, stole her design, created identical lids in March 2019, and started sellin

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