Running head: C12: Business Law Assignment #4 1
C12: Business Law
Assignment #4
C12: Business Law 2
Coco-cola & American with Disabilities Act
Part A
Using the Internet as a resource, research the Coca-Cola Company’s efforts to keep its soft
drink formula a trade secret over the course of the company’s (and the soft drink’s) one hundred-year–
plus history.
Provide a brief summary of The Coca-Cola Company’s efforts to protect its soft drink formula as a trade
secret.
Answer: Dr. John S. Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1886 but the formula was
never put down on paper until later years. In 1925 Coca-Cola put its secret formula
