Did a Chinese manufacturer rip off a Germantown company's high-tech cup holder, costing millions in lost sales? A jury will decide.

A trial underway in Milwaukee federal court frames the problem in a more pedestrian but local context. Germantown-based Raffel Systems LLC claims a Chinese furniture manufacturer bought its high-tech cup holders for its theater-style seating and then began counterfeiting those components.

Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel here.