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620245/2024 · New York State Supreme Court
Evidentiary treatment: This summarizes the plaintiff's own allegations as stated in the complaint or docket record cited below. It reflects what was filed, not a court finding, and is not a determination that the allegations are true.
Plaintiff Frank Tufano, pro se, alleges that defendant Jake Levy — after placing orders for Tufano's “Best Bar” protein-bar product — copied its formulation and marketing and began selling a competing “Whey Better Bar” product through Better Life Foods Inc. (also naming Norman Levy and Robyn Levy) with an identical or near-identical recipe, flavor lineup, and a similar name.
The corrected summons and complaint asserts claims sounding in unfair competition/passing off, misappropriation of trade secret, and unjust enrichment, and seeks damages. A related dispute involving overlapping parties was separately litigated in federal court (C039); a Pennsylvania-specific statutory claim and a specific damages figure from that federal filing could not be confirmed as part of this New York filing and were deliberately excluded here. Sourced via an indexed copy of the corrected summons and complaint, not a full direct read.
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Outcome reason: On August 26, 2025 the court denied plaintiff's default-judgment motion because the proof of service did not satisfy CPLR 308/311/3215 and plaintiff himself had signed an affidavit of service despite being a party. NYSCEF now marks the case Disposed, but the public document list does not show a later final-disposition document explaining that status.
Research status: Partially researched
Research notes: NYSCEF Case Status: Disposed. Plaintiff's Dec. 8, 2025 filing states he had been attempting service since 'the previous lawsuit' and attaches service records identifying federal case 3:23-CV-02106 (C039), involving the same Levy/Better Life defendants. This supports the refiling relationship, but the precise NYSCEF disposition basis remains unclear.
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Court denied plaintiff's motion for default judgment because the proof of service was deficient under CPLR 308, 311 and 3215; it also noted that plaintiff himself signed an affidavit of service despite being a party to the action.
August 26, 2025 ruling source — iapps.courts.state.ny.us ↗Strength labels are research classifications, not judicial declarations that the litigant is vexatious.
NYSCEF filings link the later Levy/Better Life action to federal case C039; the New York court later denied default judgment because the proof of service was deficient. The precise final NYSCEF disposal basis remains unclear.
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And the reason he changed his product name from Way Better Bar to Jacob Bar, is because I sued him in court. And I'm still trying to sue him in court. But guess what? If one of these corporate degenerates, these elite people, steal your small business idea and you try to sue them in court, guess what? The judge is going to protect them because they're all in the club.
The load-bearing quote from this video. It (a) names a tracked dispute by its product names, (b) confirms a filing already made against that party, (c) states that he is continuing to pursue further proceedings on the same grievance, and (d) alleges the judiciary will protect the opponent. The docket behind it: C039 (Tufano v. Levy et al, M.D. Pa. 3:23-cv-02106, filed 2023-12-20, dismissed 2024-10-11 for want of subject-matter jurisdiction, “expressly without further leave to amend”), then C093 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., filed 2024-11-14 — 34 days later — and pending on this date), then C036 (Lackawanna, 2026-03-09) and C068 (M.D. Pa., 2026-04-13). The case tracker records that C093's own December 2025 filing “states he had been attempting service since 'the previous lawsuit'” and attaches service records identifying C039 — which the tracker treats as supporting the refiling relationship. So “I'm still trying to sue him in court,” said in June 2025, sits between two rounds of that sequence and 275 days before the next one. Why Strong, written out so the call is auditable: the Strong rubric requires a tracked case or dispute and core filing conduct. The dispute is named via the product names, which the statement record already resolves to the Levy defendants, and “I sued him in court… and I'm still trying to sue him in court” describes continuing to litigate a grievance already litigated — the core factor Repeat filing on the same dispute — alongside a confirmed filing. A more conservative reading would take “still trying to sue him” as effort inside the then-pending C093 rather than a further action and classify this as Moderate (Filing announced or confirmed; Threatened or prospective filing); the Strong classification rests on the continued-pursuit reading, and the alternative is recorded here so the tier can be revisited without re-watching.
Source removed. Quoted at 00:46 in the archived transcript. Play at 7:21 in this project’s compilation ↗
this has me more and more excited for us launching our warrior bar officially so we should have it in two ounce portions relatively soon so you guys can go to frankie's freerangemeet.com [= frankiesfreerangemeat.com] we have plain which is for really strict dieters it's you know no carbs basically just whey tallow and salt we have a vanilla ice cream flavor we have chocolate we have banana coconut macadamia nuts
research_notes.csv records C036's claims summary as alleging he "created a proprietary protein-bar recipe, 'Best Bar,' on Dec. 1, 2020, combining whey protein powder, beef fat tallow, honey, vanilla, and salt in a formulation he says is unique enough that no other maker would independently arrive at it." This statement, published 49 days earlier (2020-10-13 to 2020-12-01, differenced in code), describes a predecessor product under a different name whose plain variant is "basically just whey tallow and salt" — three of the five pleaded ingredients — already on sale, with a 2 oz format "relatively soon". It bears on the chronology behind a pleaded date without contradicting it: the pleaded claim is about a recipe, this is about an earlier product line sharing part of it. It records no filing conduct, names no adversary and postdates no ruling. ⚠ Do not restate this as "the Best Bar existed earlier" — the file says "warrior bar", and what the two products share is stated above and nothing more. Possible case/dispute link: tentative, unconfirmed — chronological background to DSP010 / C036 / C068 / C039 / C093 only. No party is named in the transcript.
Source removed. Quoted at 10:18 in the archived transcript.
officially warrior bar is now best bar and you know back when we named it warrior bar we didn't know that like half a dozen other companies had the warrior bar
research_notes.csv records C036's claims summary as alleging "he created a proprietary protein-bar recipe, 'Best Bar,' on Dec. 1, 2020". This video is published 2020-12-01 — a plain date difference of 0 days between the publish date (2020-12-01) and the pleaded creation date (2020-12-01), computed in code — and it is the on-camera announcement of the "Best Bar" name itself. The Best Bar recipe-theft grievance is the subject of four tracked docket records (C039, C093, C036 and its removal C068, dispute group DSP010). The statement is not litigation commentary of any kind: it describes no filing, names no adversary and postdates no ruling. Its value is chronological corroboration of a pleaded date and of the origin of the pleaded product name — and, separately, the fact that the name was chosen because an earlier name collided with "half a dozen other companies", which is a different and unpleaded name-collision story. Possible case/dispute link: tentative, unconfirmed — subject-matter and date adjacency to DSP010 / C036 / C068 / C039 / C093 only. No party is named in the transcript, and a later pass must not read this as a filing-conduct statement.
Source removed. Quoted at 00:12 in the archived transcript.
frankie's free-range foods for the best bar so you don't have to spend three hours cooking your meals every day
"Best Bar" is the product at the centre of the DSP010 dispute group. research_notes.csv records for C036 and C068 that the plaintiff pleads he created the "Best Bar" protein-bar recipe on 2020-12-01, and for C039 and C093 that the defendant is alleged to have bought samples of it and copied its formulation and marketing. This is the product being advertised for sale by name, on a named website of his, 135 days after the pleaded creation date (2020-12-01 → 2021-04-15, differenced in code). It is the earliest occurrence of the product name found anywhere in the archive so far, as of batch 55, bounded by the sweep frontier at 2021-03-20. It describes no filing conduct and names no party; it bears on the dispute's subject matter and chronology only. Possible case/dispute link: DSP010 (C036 / C039 / C068 / C093) — tentative, on the product name alone. Per the standing caution, product existence is not a party link: no party, case, court or docket is named anywhere in this transcript.
Source removed. Quoted at 14:34 in the archived transcript.
there's a reason i came up with the best bars because not only do these bars taste like crap they're horrible for you and they're not going to help you achieve your health goal whether it be feeling better or looking better
"Best Bar" is the product at the centre of the DSP010 dispute group. research_notes.csv records for C036 and C068 that the plaintiff pleads he created the "Best Bar" protein-bar recipe on 2020-12-01, and for C039 and C093 that the defendant is alleged to have bought samples of it and copied its formulation and marketing. This is him stating, on camera and in his own words (the surrounding reacted clip stops before it), why he created the product — as a reaction to the commercial snack bars he has just been describing. That is contemporaneous public evidence of the product's existence, his authorship of it and his stated motive for it, 152 days after the pleaded creation date (2020-12-01 → 2021-05-02, differenced in code), 1,292 days before C093 was filed (2021-05-02 → 2024-11-14) and 1,772 days before C036 (2021-05-02 → 2026-03-09). It describes no filing conduct whatsoever and names no party. Possible case/dispute link: DSP010 (C036 / C039 / C068 / C093) — tentative, on the product name alone. Per the standing caution, product existence is not a party link: no party, case, court or docket is named anywhere in this transcript, and the alleged copyist is not mentioned.
Source removed. Quoted at 07:27 in the archived transcript.
best bar inventory is looking okay hopefully we can make some more this week otherwise you might run a little low on stock
"Best Bar" is the product at the centre of the DSP010 dispute group — research_notes.csv records for C036 and C068 that the plaintiff pleads he created the "Best Bar" protein-bar recipe on 2020-12-01, and for C039 and C093 that the defendant is alleged to have bought samples and copied the formulation. This clip is contemporaneous public evidence that the product was in stock-managed commercial production 168 days after the pleaded creation date (2020-12-01 → 2021-05-18, differenced in code). It describes no filing conduct and names no party; it bears on the dispute's subject matter and its chronology only. Possible case/dispute link: DSP010 (C036 / C039 / C068 / C093) — tentative, on the product name alone. Per the standing caution, product existence is not a party link, and no party is named anywhere in this transcript.
Source removed. Quoted at 07:51 in the archived transcript.
hey tony what's going on i know you've placed quite a few large orders and have cost me probably thousands of dollars in losses no uh listen i understand it's the price of doing business but you can't ship certain things to customs so tony i haven't had any problems lately with the uk so place a smaller order not like 700 so if i send it over there and it gets seized i don't lose so much money
Two things, and they need keeping apart. First, this is the addendum's no-filing-grievance pattern in an unusually clean form: a repeat customer is addressed by name, told his orders "have cost me probably thousands of dollars in losses", and the entire response is commercial — "i understand it's the price of doing business", followed by a request to place smaller orders so a customs seizure costs less. No demand, no claim, no threat, no refund, no lawyer, no filing; the remedy is a change in order size. Second, and separately, the customer's question names "the best bars" — the "Best Bar" protein bar is the product at the centre of four tracked matters (C036, C039, C068, C093, per the recorded claims summaries), so this fixes the product as in production and shipping internationally on 2021-10-25. That is chronology, nothing more. Possible case/dispute link: no party link, and the near-miss must be stated so nobody makes it. The Best Bar cases plead that a customer placed orders for the product and then copied it; this video has a customer placing large orders for the same product. The names do not match — the tracked purchaser is named in the claims summaries for C039/C093, and the customer here is addressed only as "tony", a first name that appears in zero rows of aliases.csv. This is the contract's fifth direction trap, right grievance shape and wrong party, and the shipping-loss grievance described here (customs seizures on UK consignments) is not the pleaded grievance in any of those cases. Dates also cut against a link in the other direction: this video predates C039 by 786 days, C093 by 1,116 days and C036 by 1,596 days (computed in code from each filed date against 2021-10-25). Recorded as product chronology only — the Best Bar existed and was being sold to overseas customers on this date.
Source removed. Quoted at 14:01 in the archived transcript.
we have some chocolate best bars back in stock hopefully uh we did have an issue with the whey protein coming in uh you know these importers are always pricks you know they tell me it's going to be this price door-to-door shipping and then they email me like three weeks later oh you have to contact your customers [= customs] broker and get it through clean so i don't i don't know when the whey protein is coming i don't know if that's going to be another big issue but you know it's just nonsense on top of nonsense on top of nonsense
Two things in one span. First, it places the "Best Bar" product — the article at the centre of the tracked recipe-copying dispute group DSP010 — in commercial stock in a chocolate flavour on 2022-02-01, together with the whey protein the pleaded formulation depends on, which is a dated fact about the product rather than about any proceeding. Second, it is a clean instance of the pattern the batch addendum asks to be recorded in both directions: a commercial counterparty is accused of misrepresenting terms and causing loss, in the language of grievance ("always pricks", "nonsense on top of nonsense"), and the announced consequence is nothing at all — no claim, no threat, no lawyer, no demand, not even a change of supplier. Tiered Moderate rather than Context because it bears on the chronology of a tracked product, not because any filing conduct is described; the factor is the exclusive No filing-conduct factor. Where a grievance resolves without litigation the record should say so plainly, and this one resolves into a shrug. A tier and a factor are research classifications, never a judicial finding. Possible case/dispute link: product-level only, and tentative. The phrase "best bars" is the tracked "Best Bar" protein bar, not a garble — the claims summaries for C036, C039, C068 and C093 (dispute group DSP010) all plead a proprietary Best Bar recipe of whey protein, beef tallow, honey, vanilla and salt. ⚠ Five checks against §9's direction traps, all of which constrain this link: (1) nothing in the quote describes a filing in either direction; (2) C036 and C068 carry same_action_as_case_id pointing at each other and are one action with two docket records, so DSP010 is three originating actions, not four; (3) every one of them postdates this video by years — the earliest, C039, was filed 2023-12-20, 687 days after publication on 2022-02-01 (computed in code from those two dates); (4) the grievance in this quote is against unnamed importers over customs and shipping terms, which is a different grievance from the recipe-copying pleaded in DSP010 — right product, wrong dispute; and (5) no party to any tracked case is named or alluded to anywhere in the quote. So the link recorded is to the product, as corroboration of its existence, flavour line and whey-protein dependency at a date, and to nothing else.
Source removed. Quoted at 01:28 in the archived transcript.
funny story about the protein it's the exact same grass-fed protein we were selling before except because i don't know if my suppliers in the club and they like jerking me around i had to get the same product from a chinese company so they shipped the product to china then i had to pay the extra customs fees and their percentage whatever and then get it to me it's just completely ridiculous and i'm basically just breaking even on the protein now because of that nonsense but because we have the protein in stock my guys made plenty of chocolate and vanilla best bars over the weekend
best bars is not a caption garble — "Best Bar" is the product name at the centre of the tracked Levy / Better Life Foods dispute. research_notes.csv for C093 records that he "alleges that defendant Jake Levy — after placing orders for Tufano's 'Best Bar' protein-bar product — copied its formulation and marketing and began selling a competing 'Whey Better Bar'". This video dates the Best Bars in chocolate-and-vanilla production, and the grass-fed whey protein they are made from back in stock, to 2022-04-12. It also records a dated supply-chain grievance against an unnamed protein supplier, and the China re-routing that resulted. No dispute, no party, no copying allegation and no proceeding is mentioned anywhere in this video — this is product-existence chronology only, which is why the factor is No filing-conduct factor. Possible case/dispute link: DSP010 / C039 / C093 — tentative and unconfirmed, resting solely on the product name matching a dataset row. Nobody is named in the transcript.
Source removed. Quoted at 02:53 in the archived transcript.
and i i don't like bringing it up but you know when these other people copy my products and plagiarize my ideas and don't give me credit and try to make money those people are the reason you guys have waited two years for eggs those people are the reason i can't give you guys dairy those people are the reason i don't have all the quality products i want those people that aren't crediting me that are trying to make money themselves on their own products are partially the reason i don't have everything myself
The product-copying grievance, stated on camera and dated, 547 days before the first docket record pleading it (published 2022-06-21 → C039 filed 2023-12-20; both dates differenced in code). C039 and C093 plead that a competitor bought samples of his "Best Bar" protein bar in 2020, copied its formulation and marketing, and sold a competing bar. This passage describes no filing, threatens none, and names nobody — it establishes only that the grievance existed and was being aired publicly at this date. It also attributes concrete business losses to it ("the reason you guys have waited two years for eggs"), which is the damages theory in narrative form. Possible case/dispute link: tentative and grievance-only — DSP010 (C039, C093), the Better Life / Levy product dispute. ⚠ No person or company is named in this transcript, so this is expressly not a party link (direction trap 5). The link is that the category of grievance later pleaded is being voiced here at a date well before any DSP010 filing.
Source removed. Quoted at 13:45 in the archived transcript.
here on the left we have the original best bars vanilla Berry and chocolate these are made with grass-fed whey protein beef Tallow and honey
This is the product and the formula that the tracked protein-bar litigation pleads were copied. research_notes.csv records C039's claims summary as alleging that Jake Levy bought samples of his "Best Bar" protein bar with intent to copy its formula and then sold a "Whey Better Bar" with an allegedly identical ingredient formulation; C036/C068's claims summaries record the pleaded recipe as "whey protein powder, beef fat tallow, honey, vanilla, and salt, created Dec. 2020," said to be unique enough that no other maker would independently arrive at it. Here, on camera and in one sentence, he names the product ("the original best bars"), its three flavours and the three headline ingredients. He alleges no copying, names no competitor, and says nothing about the formula's origin or about any filing — so this is chronology, not filing conduct, and the factor is No filing-conduct factor. Its value is that it fixes a public, dated, on-camera recital of the pleaded formula before the litigation existed. Possible case/dispute link: Tentative, unconfirmed — C039 (Tufano v. Levy et al, M.D. Pa. 3:23-cv-02106, filed 2023-12-20), and through the same product also C093, C036 and C068, all in DSP010. No case, party or dispute is named on camera; the link rests entirely on the product name and the ingredient list matching the pleaded subject matter. This mirrors the existing YT304/VS743 treatment of a later video (s-HrwAdcAr4, 2026-03-14) that was linked to C039 and C093 at "Transcript reference / Medium" confidence on exactly this basis.
Source removed. Quoted at 00:10 in the archived transcript.
a lot of you guys have been asking when the best bars are going to be back in stock we have them available for pre-order on the website Frankie freerange foods.com through next week so if You' [= you'd] like to get first dibs it's our original formula as always grass food we protein [= grass-fed whey protein] grass food beef Tallow [= grass-fed beef tallow] raw honey organic chocolate for the chocolate flavor we got some organic vanilla in there and some sea salt
The strongest finding among the statements researched from this video. The speaker names his product — "the best bars" — asserts it is "our original formula as always," and then recites the formula: whey protein, beef tallow, raw honey, vanilla, sea salt (plus organic chocolate for the chocolate variant). That is, to the ingredient, the recipe the tracked pleadings describe. C036's recorded claims summary reads: "Plaintiff alleges he created a proprietary protein-bar recipe, 'Best Bar,' on Dec. 1, 2020, combining whey protein powder, beef fat tallow, honey, vanilla, and salt in a formulation he says is unique enough that no other maker would independently arrive at it" — repeated for C068 (the removed federal half of the same action), and the same "Best Bar" product is the subject of C039 and C093. Published 2023-12-15, it is a five-day pre-filing statement: C039 (Tufano v. Levy et al, M.D. Pa. 3:23-cv-02106) was filed 2023-12-20. It describes no filing conduct at all — no suit, threat, court, opponent or copying is mentioned — hence No filing-conduct factor and a Moderate, not Strong, tier. Its value is as evidence of the product and its claimed originality in his own words, in the window before the first action over it, not as a statement about litigation. No party is named: Levy, Better Life, "Whey Better Bar" and words like copy, stole or theft occur nowhere in the video's captions. The case link rests on the product, the recited formula and the date — not on a name, and not on the title.
Source removed.
I I take a lot of pride in the in the health and nutrition bars I've made and the Cookie Bars because there's nothing else really like them on the market it's also why we were played rizon [= plagiarized] copied on the best bar which is whole other headache that I'm not getting into today
One of the strongest findings in this research. Published 2023-12-19; C039 (Tufano v. Levy et al, M.D. Pa. 3:23-cv-02106) was filed 2023-12-20 — one day later, a plain date difference with both dates stated. The statement names the grievance that C039 pleads: C039's claims summary records that defendant Jake Levy purchased samples of his "Best Bar" protein-bar product in 2020 with intent to copy its formula, product line, and marketing. Here he says, on camera, the day before filing, that he was "played rizon [= plagiarized] copied on the best bar" — naming the product and the grievance, and calling it "a whole other headache that I'm not getting into today," which reads as deliberate withholding of something already in motion. Tiered Moderate, not Strong, and the factor is No filing-conduct factor — deliberately. The Strong tier requires filing conduct of a core-factor kind alongside an identified case. He describes being copied; he does not say he has filed, is filing, will file, or has filed before, or that filing will cost anyone money. "A whole other headache" is suggestive but is not a filing statement; recording a filing factor here would put a conclusion into the classification that the words do not support. No party is named — Levy, Better Life, Whey Better, Jacob, Saladino and TikTok Shop appear nowhere in the video's captions; the link is made on product plus grievance plus date, not on a name. These are his own words, not a recited review — the passage sits between two product reviews in the video.
Why this classification: He names the "best bar" plagiarism grievance that C039 pleads on camera one day before that complaint was filed, but he describes being copied and calls it "a whole other headache" rather than saying he has filed, will file, or has filed before, so the filing side is unstated and the tier stays Moderate.
Source removed. Quoted at 26:36 in the archived transcript.
too much you know I I $2,000 chargebacks these other people leaving negative reviews on my business this stuff happening every week you know that that kid that stole my best for idea the court doesn't care at all
"That kid that stole my best for idea" is "that kid that stole my Best Bar idea" — C039 (Tufano v. Levy et al, M.D. Pa., filed 2023-12-20), whose claims summary pleads that Jake Levy bought samples of his "Best Bar" protein bar in order to copy the formula. The sentence places the dispute in a documented chain: on 2024-07-02 the case was still live (the recorded litigation timeline shows C039 dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction on 2024-10-11), and he is already saying "the court doesn't care at all" — 101 days before that dismissal and 135 days before he refiled the same dispute in New York as C093 (filed 2024-11-14), which the tracker codes as a refiling of C039 and records as a filing-restriction indicator. This is contemporaneous evidence of the dissatisfaction that preceded a coded refiling, from inside the interval, which is precisely what a docket cannot supply.
Source removed. Quoted at 20:44 in the archived transcript.
so I filed about a dozen lawsuits Al together and every single one of them was dismissed by a judge as I said before I could even serve the opposing Council papers
both halves are checkable. Volume: 21 docket records exist on or before 2025-01-08, of which 20 were filed by him — so "about a dozen" understates the tracker, unless he means only the 2023–2025 federal/state run (C039, C040, C041, C042, C043, C044, C045, C046, C001, C002, C092, C093, C101 = thirteen), for which it is close to exact. Outcomes: a documented cluster of dismissals precedes this video — C042 (2024-11-13), C040 (2024-12-09), C044 (2024-12-11), C041 (2024-12-16), C043 (2024-12-30), the last of those nine days before publication. But "every single one" is overbroad on the same date: C045, C046, C101, C001 and C002 were all live.
Source removed. Quoted at 02:02 in the archived transcript.
the best bars uh vanilla chocolate strawberry maybe have to update you guys on that lawsuit but uh nothing ever goes my way so go figure
The only reference to a lawsuit in the video, and it arrives mid-sentence while he is reading out bar flavours. The sentence's own subject is his Best Bar product, which is the product at the centre of the Better Life / Levy product dispute — C039 (Tufano v. Levy et al, M.D. Pa., filed 2023-12-20) was dismissed 2024-10-11, and C093 (Frank Tufano v. Jake Levy et al, NY Supreme, filed 2024-11-14) was pending on the day this was published. "Nothing ever goes my way" is a general expression of pessimism about the case; it is not a report of a ruling, so the quote does not carry Adverse outcome described.
Source removed. Quoted at 03:47 in the archived transcript.
Some of you might be familiar with the Jacob Bar, which is a carbon copy of my Best Bar that I launched a few years ago. The Jacob Bar was originally launched as the Way Better Bar, which is more similar to my product name, the Best Bar.
All three product names in the Better Life / Levy product dispute, in one sentence, on 2025-06-08. The statement record already carries the "Way Better Bar" fact from a video published 2025-10-18 — "He originally had a bar called the Way Better Bar, which was even a more obvious carbon copy of my idea" — and the research on that statement records that the product name appears nowhere in the case tracker. This clip predates that statement by 132 days and is, so far as the dataset and the research archive show, the earliest statement of the chain. Another researched statement independently ties "Jacob Bar" to Better Life Foods Inc and the Levy defendants — Jake, Norman and Robyn Levy — all on the C036/C068 defendant lists. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)
Source removed. Quoted at 00:30 in the archived transcript.
They've been copied and astroturfed. Whether it's the best bars by uh that kid Jake Levy, uh the beef tallow chips have been copied by Vandy. Uh the honey ice cream is that guy ice cream for bears. That's where he got the idea. He stole it from me.
The longest-lead pre-filing statement found in this stretch of the research. Two of the three parties are tracked, both named with the grievance the eventual complaint pleads, and no filing is announced or even hinted at. "Ice cream for bears... He stole it from me" points to Ice Cream for Bears LLC and C070, Tufano v. Ice Cream for Bears LLC et al, filed 2026-04-20 — 290 days after publication. Earlier research had anchored the same case's pre-filing lead at 210 days via a video published 2025-09-22; C070 therefore now has two independently dated pre-filing statements, and this is the earlier by nearly three months. "The best bars by uh that kid Jake Levy" names Jake Levy of the Better Life / Levy product dispute — but a direction and chronology caution is recorded in the research notes, and that reference is not a pre-filing statement. "Copied by Vandy" matches nothing in the tracked records; it is unresolved, not ruled out.
Source removed. Quoted at 04:00 in the archived transcript.
You know, I'm curious if these judges in the New York State Court will ever let me prosecute this kid who stole my protein bar idea.
Places the grievance in a specific forum — the New York State Court — which matches C093 (Frank Tufano v. Jake Levy et al, New York State Supreme Court, filed 2024-11-14). the case tracker records that on 2025-08-26, roughly seven weeks before this video, the court denied his default-judgment motion because the proof of service did not satisfy CPLR 308/311/3215 and because he had signed the affidavit of service himself despite being a party. That is a concrete recent adverse ruling matching the complaint voiced here. Restated at [0:57]: "these judges won't even let me surf and" — cut off, but consistent with serve and the service defect that decided the motion.
Why this classification: Questions whether the New York courts will ever allow his protein-bar claim to proceed.
Source removed.
I came out with the best bar, I don't know, in 2020. And he stole that exact formula, sold it for a few years, and makes god knows how much more money than I have off that bar.
Dates his own Best Bar to roughly 2020 — a useful anchor for the chronology of the Better Life / Levy product dispute, since the tracked filings run from C093 (2024) through C036/C068 (2026). "I don't know, in 2020" is his own hedge and should be preserved as approximate.
Why this classification: Background on the protein-bar formula he says was copied and the revenue it earned.
Source removed. Quoted at 00:15 in the archived transcript.
Up next is Jacob Levy, who stole my best bar idea, has made millions of dollars, and is still continuing to profit off of my original protein bar because I am censored, shadowbanned, they control all social media. Really despicable.
Identifies a tracked defendant by a variant of his given name, Jacob for the tracked Jake Levy, and states the underlying grievance behind the competing-food-product dispute, coupled with a shadowbanning claim.
Why this classification: A tracked party and the core grievance of a tracked dispute are identified, but the statement announces no filing and names no case, so it stays at Moderate.
Source removed. Quoted at 00:23 in the archived transcript.
Of course, we have the best bars, which are the original bar that that kid copied that I still haven't gotten compensated from in court. That's a whole different story for another video.
The load-bearing quote from this video. He states, unprompted and inside a product walkthrough, that a competing product copied his protein bar and that he has litigated and not recovered ("in court"). That is a reported case outcome against him — a docket fact, not filing conduct — and it is the only reference to a court anywhere in 25 minutes. The subject matter (a copied food bar, a young competitor) matches the Better Life / Levy product dispute exactly.
Source removed. Quoted at 22:33 in the archived transcript.
Jake Levy should be in jail for theft of trade secrets. But because I'm not in the club, because I'm not a member of the elite, he's able to steal my formulas and products and make millions of dollars off of them. He's the original culprit.
Names a tracked defendant and identifies him as the origin of the product dispute, with the not-in-the-club framing that recurs across the channel. It also asserts he should be in jail for theft of trade secrets, an unadjudicated criminal characterisation of a civil dispute; no criminal proceeding against either target appears anywhere in the dataset.
Why this classification: The individual named is a defendant in tracked actions and the statement identifies him as the origin of the dispute, but it describes no filing conduct and names no case, court or docket.
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So, he ordered the bars off my website, the best bar that I came up with 5 years ago, sent these bars to a manufacturer to be replicated. And ever since 2023, he's been selling these bars. Originally called the Way Better Bar, but then after all these online accusations, he changed the name to the Jacob Bar.
The clearest statement of what the Best Bar dispute alleges: the mechanism he describes, ordering the product and sending it to a manufacturer to replicate, the start date he gives, and the renaming of the competing bar. It was published twelve days before the tracked state case was filed.
Why this classification: It sets out the underlying facts of a tracked dispute in his own words shortly before the action pleading them was filed, but it describes no filing conduct and names no case, court or docket.
Source removed. Quoted at 00:16 in the archived transcript.
Ice Cream for Bears is another business that copied and plagiarized my idea. Although it's not as direct as the Jacob bar where he literally copied the exact same formula and offered the exact same flavors and had a similar name. That was like an insanely blatant plagiarizing. Ice Cream for Bears was a little less obvious.
Links two separate tracked disputes in one sentence, and ranks them. "The Jacob bar" is the Jake Levy / Better Life protein-bar matter — C093, Frank Tufano v. Jake Levy et al, and the subject of the videos "Best Bar THIEF Jake Levy MAKING MILLIONS OFF ME" and "Protein Bars LAWSUIT". He characterises that one as "insanely blatant" and this one as "a little less obvious" — his own assessment that the Ice Cream for Bears copying claim is the weaker of the two. That is a statement against interest worth preserving verbatim.
Why this classification: Compares two alleged copies of his products, rating one a more blatant imitation than the other.
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for these Best Bars, this is actually the original formula that I keep complaining people steal, the whey protein, beef tallow, and honey. And then we have our flavor, whether it's vanilla or chocolate. In the case of berry, I mean, I can't even afford to to buy new pouches. And that's what happens when you get shadowbanned and censored and people steal your ideas and take advantage of you.
He identifies on camera the specific product and the specific three-ingredient formula that is the subject matter of the tracked trade-secret litigation, and states the business harm he attributes to its copying. The same three ingredients are recited in a sibling video ten days earlier.
Why this classification: It restates a pleaded claim and identifies the product at its centre, which is why it bears on the tracked actions, but it describes others' alleged conduct rather than any filing of his own, and names no case, court, party or docket.
Source removed. Quoted at 00:14 in the archived transcript.
Each video has its own research page with its verified publish date, timestamped statements and case links. A researched link between a video and a docket record is not a finding of causation in either direction.
Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Frank Tufano v. Jake Levy et al (620245/2024)". Research last verified September 23, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/620245-2024-frank-tufano-v-jake-levy-et-al/