Heinz didn't appropriate a Michigan man's idea for its “Dip & Squeeze” ketchup container, a federal jury in Pittsburgh found Wednesday.

After a three-day trial, the jury found that David Wawrzynski had presented a new idea for a single-serving ketchup packet, but that Heinz didn't take that idea, according to Michael Mullen, a spokesman for Heinz.

Wawrzynski, who owns a food delivery business, had brought the suit claiming breach of implied contract and unjust enrichment, after he had approached the Pittsburgh-based ketchup maker about his design for a new ketchup packet that he called the “Little Dipper” and was declined, only to find that Heinz would begin marketing a similar package the following year, according to an opinion from U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab of the Western District of Pennsylvania that denied summary judgment to Heinz in January.