Not all candy is pulled, but much of it is,” Justice William Howard Taft wrote in the 1921 Supreme Court decision Hildreth v. Mastoras. That high-profile patent dispute over rival improvements to salt ...

Moving a 400-pound vintage taffy puller is no easy task. In this behind-the-scenes moment, we nearly lost our grip while setting it up—but managed to save it just in time. A close call with a piece of ...