Jessica Seinfeld Wins Culinary Copycat Claim

A federal appeals court has sided with comedian Jerry Seinfeld's wife in her trademark dispute with another cookbook author.

Missy Chase Lapine had claimed Jessica Seinfeld copied her secrets on how to get children to eat vegetables.

The New York appeals court said Wednesday that "stockpiling vegetable purees for cover use in children's food is an idea that cannot be copyrighted."

Both books were published in 2007.

Seinfeld's is called "Deceptively Delicious." Lapine's is titled "The Sneaky Chef."

Messages left with lawyers on both sides were not immediately returned.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued its opinion just two days after hearing oral arguments in the trademark infringement dispute.

By Larry Neumeister

[freechoice4all]

Jeery's wife is the "wacko"! Anybody vaguely familar with how they met would know she is just a gold digger. She divorced her husband right after returning from her HONEYMOON and meeting Jerry Seinfeld.

How he could actually even trust a woman like that is beyond me, I'd be worried everytime she went out she'd meet somebody richer and then latch onto him!

Now that is a wacko!!!

[AParent]

Jerry Sienfield's wife did not write a book. She copied another person's idea and publication. It was published BECAUSE her name was Sienfield. Had her name been Jane Doe, she would have been turned away for plagerism. A court decision doesn't make it right.
Shame on her and her pubisher.

[marpey-2009]

If she weren't Jerry Seinfeld's wife she certainly would have lost How much did it cost Jerry to get this for her?

[marpey-2009]

If she weren't Jerry Sienfeld's wife she certainly would have lost How much did it cost Jerry to get this for her?

[freechoice4all]

I agree with the idea of mixing fruits and veggies with other can't be copyrighted. BUT to have the same recipes with the same odd combination of veggies (spinich in brownies) is BS. ...and for Jerry to call her a "wacko" on national TV is wrong and defamination. His right to free speech does not give him the right to defame (slander) someone on nation wide TV.