Try our Advanced Search for more refined results

WARMAN et al v. LOCAL YOKELS FUDGE, LLC et al

  1. April 23, 2025

    No Trade Secret Trial Do-Overs In Chocolate Moonshine Suit

    A Pennsylvania chocolatier and her company can't get second chances in a lawsuit accusing them of stealing a rival and former spouse's recipe for Chocolate Moonshine fudge, after a federal judge ruled Tuesday that her ex had proved the value of his secret recipe and the court had not harmed the defense's case by blocking discussion of their divorce.

  2. April 17, 2025

    'Moonshine' Fudge Maker Must Pay Fees For Failed IP Claims

    The maker of "Chocolate Moonshine" fudge may have won a trade secrets case against his ex-wife and her new chocolate company, but he must pay the defendants more than $174,000 in attorney fees and costs for his unsuccessful trademark and copyright infringement claims.

  3. December 09, 2024

    Pa. Fudge Maker Seeks Atty Fees In 'Moonshine' TM Fight

    Even though a Pennsylvania jury had found that Local Yokels Fudge and Christopher Warman's ex-wife had copied his secret "Chocolate Moonshine" fudge recipe, the defendants want Warman to pay some of their legal bills because they say he made frivolous trademark claims and falsely claimed they were still using the recipe after the 2023 trial.

  4. March 27, 2024

    Candy Co. Can Use Recipe Amid 'Chocolate Moonshine' Fight

    A Pennsylvania federal judge has refused to ban the candy maker Local Yokels Fudge from making or selling fudge, ruling the owner's ex-husband hadn't shown the company is still using his family's secret "Chocolate Moonshine" fudge recipe.

  5. January 17, 2024

    Pa. Chocolate Maker Says Rival Still Using Protected Recipe

    A chocolatier wants a Pennsylvania federal court to expedite his request for a permanent ban on his ex-wife and her business partners from using a fudge recipe that a jury concluded was his family's trade secret — or to impose a ban barring them from making fudge altogether.

  6. December 08, 2023

    Jury Says 'Chocolate Moonshine' Recipe Was Secret, Stolen

    A Pennsylvania jury awarded a chocolatier $238,000 Friday after concluding that his ex-wife misappropriated his secret recipe for "Chocolate Moonshine" fudge.

  7. December 07, 2023

    'Chocolate Moonshine' Recipe Is No Trade Secret, Pa. Jury Told

    The main thing Christopher Warman Sr. added to a veteran chocolatier's recipe to make his "chocolate moonshine" fudge was salesmanship — and he failed to change or protect the recipe enough for it to qualify as a trade secret, counsel for his ex-wife and two other businesses argued Thursday at the close of a federal trial in Pennsylvania.

  8. November 27, 2023

    Ex-Wife Can't Use 'Chocolate Moonshine' Formula, Jury Hears

    Christopher Warman Sr. may have learned a fudge recipe from a New England chocolatier, but it was his own tweaks and improvements to that formula that made it a trade secret — one his ex-wife and her new business partners should be barred from using, Warman's attorney told a Pittsburgh jury Monday.

  9. September 25, 2019

    Chocolatier Accuses Rivals Of Stealing Secret Fudge Recipe

    A Pennsylvania chocolate confection company accused its business rivals of stealing its secret "Chocolate Moonshine" fudge recipe and then conspiring to use it for their own gain, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Pittsburgh federal court.