April 18 – TribLocal-Evanston
Adjunct professor Howard Rockman quoted
Recipes are not covered under patent or copyright laws, said Howard Rockman, an attorney and adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School’s Center for Intellectual Property Law in Chicago.
But ownership could be established under trade secret law, Rockman said, which encompasses anything of value to one person that would be valuable to another if they possessed it.
“It has value to you because they don’t know it,” he said. “I can’t duplicate Coca-Cola because I don’t have the syrup recipe.”
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