Watermelon-flavored candies and other foods rarely taste like the real thing. But why exactly is that? It's all about our abilities to recreate the flavor.

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a district court’s decision that a candymaker cannot trademark the shape and colors of watermelon candy, finding that the combined colors and shape ...

"Because the tricolored shape is recognizable as watermelon-flavored, the whole appearance is useful," Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote. "So a candymaker cannot block competitors from using ...

Watermelons came in by the truck-load as the Wichita Falls Farmers Market at 807 Austin Street held its Watermelon Festival on Saturday. Fresh farm-picked watermelons were available from Jetton Farms, ...

Easter is one of the biggest candy selling periods of the entire year — 3.7 billion in the U.S. in 2020, according to the National Confectioner's Association — and we can understand why: Not only are ...

Upholding the rejection of its trademark application, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a confectioner cannot block its competitors from making candy in the shape and colors of ...