Kentucky Fried IPR
There was an army descending on Louisville, Kentucky today to safely transport a handwritten recipe on a 40-year old piece of paper. That recipe is KFC’s secret.
One way to protect intellectual property is to disclose the secret to everyone and file for legal protection. Another way is not to tell anybody.
The KFC secret recipe has probably been worth more as a marketing strategy than anything else. Still, the move of the recipe has the current president all a-twitter!
“I don’t want to be the president who loses the recipe,” KFC President Roger Eaton said. “Imagine how terrifying that would be.”
So important is the 68-year-old concoction that coats the chain’s Original Recipe chicken that only two company executives at any time have access to it. The company refuses to release their name or title, and it uses multiple suppliers who produce and blend the ingredients but know only a part of the entire contents.
via Obscure Store
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