PROTECTING TRADE SECRETS I EIGHT QUESTIONS BUSINESSES NEED TO ASK AND ANSWER

摘要

If the Coca-Cola Company had used patent legislation to protect its secret formula, would it have become the most popular soda in the world? Possibly not. Coca-Cola would have had to make the formula known to the world when it filed the patent and would only have had exclusive rights to the formula for as few as 20 years. However, by following critical steps to protect the formula as a trade secret, the company has kept it a secret for more than a century (maybe. . .).