After-Decision-6402 t1_jc6grdq wrote on March 14, 2023 at 12:03 PM Reply to TIL If Coca-Cola's inventor had decided to file a patent application in 1892 instead of keeping the recipe a secret, patent protection would have expired long before Pepsi ever came onto the market in 1965. Patent protection lasts 20 years at most. Trade secrets can last forever. by ethereal3xp OP gonna make another TIL that Pepsi is just as old as Coca-cola with all these comments Permalink 31
After-Decision-6402 t1_jc6grdq wrote
Reply to TIL If Coca-Cola's inventor had decided to file a patent application in 1892 instead of keeping the recipe a secret, patent protection would have expired long before Pepsi ever came onto the market in 1965. Patent protection lasts 20 years at most. Trade secrets can last forever. by ethereal3xp
OP gonna make another TIL that Pepsi is just as old as Coca-cola with all these comments