January 02, 2026
A baking-products company that a Pennsylvania jury found to have copied a rival's formula will face $11.4 million in legal bills and a permanent ban on making certain products after sharing details of the allegedly copied goods in publicly accessible court documents, a federal judge has ruled.
May 07, 2025
An Ohio baking products company says it shouldn't be sanctioned for sharing some of the ingredients in one of its products in a temporarily public court filing, since the same ingredients had been discussed in open court during testimony about how that product allegedly differed from the trade-secret recipe a rival was trying to protect.
May 01, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge had strong words of warning Wednesday for Bundy Baking Solutions, a baking products company that lost a jury trial over a rival's trade secrets and responded to a motion for a permanent ban by allegedly disclosing some of those same secrets on a public docket.
April 13, 2025
A Pennsylvania jury on Friday awarded $7.25 million to a baking chemicals maker that claimed a former partner-turned-rival and two ex-employees stole trade secrets, following a weeklong trial in Pittsburgh's federal court.
April 07, 2025
Pittsburgh commercial bakery supplier Mallet & Co. told a federal jury Monday that a partner-turned-rival enticed former employees to help it start a competing business, Synova, in the field of release agents, or the oils and lubricants that keep baked goods from sticking to their pans.