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CompetitiveDeer2 t1_jc9kcf9 wrote
ChickenMom90 t1_jc91gzv 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
Isn't a patent 17 years, or is that just for drugs?
DebiMoonfae t1_jc8orai 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
Pepsi and Coca cola don’t even taste the same.
Taxing t1_jc8ljc5 wrote
Reply to comment by LeapIntoInaction in 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
Recipes can be patented, in the US at least.
KindAwareness3073 t1_jc88rwf wrote
Reply to comment by durrtyurr in 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
Pepsi was considered the "poor folks" Coca-Cola.
AUWarEagle82 t1_jc834d4 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
Pepsi started selling a similar product in 1893. Their drink long pre-dates 1965.
Ok-Seaworthiness4488 t1_jc7u0ae wrote
Reply to comment by CorgiMonsoon in 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
Pepsi cola company predates PepsiCo which is when they merged with Frito Lay in 1965
Jameschoral t1_jc7re7x wrote
Reply to comment by DavoTB in 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
1965 was when Pepsi-Cola Company merged with Frito Lay and formed PepsiCo Inc. Pepsi-Cola was first formulated in 1898 by Caleb Bradham.
DavoTB t1_jc7me7p wrote
Reply to comment by ethereal3xp in 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
When we were growing up, the Colonel used to say it had “11 herbs and spices,” that made it finger lickin’ good…
DavoTB t1_jc7m1w7 wrote
Reply to comment by WolfPaw_90 in 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
Wondering what the 1965 date in the post is referring to now?
CorgiMonsoon t1_jc7au1y wrote
Reply to comment by Amulek_My_Balls in 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
Or how was Joan Crawford already the widow of Pepsi CEO Alfred Steele in 1959 (who had been CEO of Pepsi since 1949)
LeapIntoInaction t1_jc78g5i 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
You can't patent a recipe, babes. Besides, the original Coca-Cola was made with coca leaves (think "cocaine"). I understand they still use those for flavoring after removing the active ingredient, which really takes all the fun out of it.
ethereal3xp OP t1_jc6y48s wrote
Reply to comment by Amulek_My_Balls in 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
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Amulek_My_Balls t1_jc6v61t 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
If Pepsi came into the market in 1965, then how did the employee know what a Pepsi was when Marty McFly's tried to order a Pepsi Free in a small Hill Valley diner in 1955? Checkmate.
ethereal3xp OP t1_jc6t23t wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in 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
Maybe it's the older recipe/method to frying
I was a big fan of the old KFC chicken recipe and soggy fries/mixed vegetable slaw
These days the chicken taste like it's overfried. Can't hardly taste the pepper and other spices. Fries is hard as chopsticks. Just overall it has gone downhill
tomsloat t1_jc6rqka 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
The recipe is not that secret is it, take a drink, put something as addictive as possible in it,
[deleted] t1_jc6rf15 wrote
Reply to comment by OldMork in 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
KFC's secret recipe was released year's ago by one of the family members involved in the business.
cardboardunderwear t1_jc6norl wrote
Reply to comment by thefruitsofzellman in 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
The brand is worth way more than the formula anyways. When people are buying Pepsi they are expecting something that tastes like Pepsi. So tbh there really isn’t a ton of value for Pepsi to know how to make coke. Their bread is buttered by selling Pepsi.
thefruitsofzellman t1_jc6lqjm wrote
Reply to comment by usrevenge in 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
My first reaction: oh, that was nice of them. But I bet the real reason is that they didn’t want Coke thinking they were behind the theft.
durrtyurr t1_jc6j5y4 wrote
Reply to comment by WolfPaw_90 in 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
Yeah, it was definitely a thing when my grandfather was growing up. He always laughed at the "pepsi generation" ads because he considered himself to be the pepsi generation because a bottle of pepsi was almost twice the size of a bottle of coke when he was growing up, so that was all he drank. Growing up with a single father in rural eastern kentucky in the 1930s, he took what he could get.
c2srq t1_jc6i0km 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
Bring back the cocaine or I'm not interested.
usrevenge t1_jc6gzet wrote
Reply to comment by RiceCakeAlchemist in 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
Some people stole the recipe for coca cola and tried to sell it to Pepsi. Pepsi turned them in.
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
topcat5 t1_jc6f4gp 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
What are you talking about? Pepsi is as old Coke.
MunWombat t1_jcb3fk7 wrote
Reply to TIL that Prince is credited for “discovering” Carmen Electra when she began her career as a singer after moving to Minneapolis where they met and he produced her self-titled debut studio album, released in 1993. by puzzledplatypus
So you are saying Prince probably hit that?