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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Axel is correct. If someone released the secret formula for Coke, then Coke could sue the person who released it for either contract violation or breaking and entering (the exact legal remedy would depend on who released it, how they got the formula and where it occurred), but there isn't a thing they could do to anyone who used that formula to manufacture Coke.
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They couldn't
call it "Coke", though; that is protected - by trademark law. People ask "what's in a name". In the case of something like Coke, the answer is "a very large amount of money". The name is, I suspect, a lot more valuable than the exact recipe (which, in any event, changes from time to time, and is different in different countries).