Judge says Crumbl challenger downloaded 66 recipes before leaving cookie company

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In the latest round of Utah's 'cookie wars,' a federal judge has written that the bakery chain Crumbl has a 'likelihood of success' of proving in court that a smaller rival took 'trade secrets' — but the judge denied Crumbl an injunction that the other company, Dirty Dough, said would have put them out of business.

Dirty Dough doesn’t have to stop opening franchises while the case continues, but Crumbl has ‘likelihood of success,’ judge writes

The lawsuit started in May 2022, when Crumbl filed a complaint that claimed Dirty Dough took recipes and other proprietary information. Crumbl accused brothers Bennett and Bradley Maxwell of taking that information when each was involved with Crumbl — Bennett had been turned down as a franchise operator, while Bradley worked as a process engineer at the company.

After an evidentiary hearing in the case, detailed in Nielson’s ruling, both sides agreed that Dirty Dough and Bradley Maxwell would return Crumbl’s information and any documents derived from it, and that Maxwell would verify under oath that everything had been returned. The fact that Dirty Dough agreed to return the downloaded information to Crumbl made the injunction a moot point, Nielson wrote.

 

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