Mastoras. That high-profile patent dispute over rival improvements to salt water taffy pullers—the multiarmed machines that aerate the candy and give it its signature chew—shows just how ...

Founded in 1898, Shriver's Salt Water Taffy is the oldest business on the boardwalk in Ocean City. Meryl: This is the taffy-cooking machine. I wish it had a more glamorous name, but it doesn't.