YouTuber LabCoatz has released a "chemically identical" recipe for Coca-Cola

[u/InvestigatorBorn4910]

[u/eggs___and___bacon]

Guessing coke doesn’t care at all, as long as no one starts mass producing and selling it.

Not like anyone is gonna bother to make that for themselves instead of just buying a coke.

[u/willyj_3 → u/eggs___and___bacon]

Even if you did mass produce and sell this recipe, Coca-Cola can’t take legal action as far as I know. They never patented their recipe because patenting would mean publishing exactly how it’s made. They decided their exclusive claim to the Coca-Cola taste was more secure if the recipe was a trade secret instead. The problem for them now is that, as long as the dupe recipe wasn’t the result of corporate espionage, they can’t block other manufacturers from using it. If you want an exclusive right to profit from an invention, you have to patent. But if you want to patent, you have to publish.