Neptune

Practitioner channel specialist among first to use Neptune's new fish oil technology

06-Oct-2016 By Hank Schultz

Xymogen, a Florida-based dietary supplement manufacturer that specializes in the practitioner channel, has been among the first to launch an omega-3s line based on Neptune’s new concentration technology.

Neptune and Enzymotec finalize patent settlement and license agreement

28-Apr-2014 By Stephen DANIELLS

The long-running krill oil patent dispute between Canada’s Neptune Technologies & Bioressources and Israel-based Enzymotec Ltd. has come to an end, with the firms signing a final and binding patent infringement settlement and license agreement.

Krill wars redux: Enzymotec ends settlement negotiations with Neptune, ITC case to go forward

02-Apr-2014 By Hank Schultz

In a new phase of a long-standing krill oil patent dispute, Israel-based Enzymotec Ltd. has backed out of a settlement negotiation with Canada’s Neptune Technologies & Bioressources, both companies confirm. Enzymotec said it halted negotiations after...

Neptune, Rimfrost end patent dispute, enter into krill oil supply agreement

03-Oct-2013 By Hank Schultz

The lengthy court battles in the krill sector took a new turn when the category’s newest entrant, Rimfrost, settled a patent dispute and entered into a supply agreement with Neptune Technologies and Bioressources, the company that first brought krill...

USPTO rejects one of Neptune's krill patents; appeal forthcoming

16-May-2013 By Hank Schultz

In the latest development in the nutraceutical world’s equivalent of the Wars of the Roses, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has ruled on a reexamination of a Neptune Bioressources and Technologies patent and has rejected all of its 148 claims.

Neptune gets new U.S. krill patent, files lawsuits; Aker seeks re-examination

03-Oct-2012 By Hank Schultz

In the latest development in the ongoing struggle over krill oil patent protection, Neptune Technologies and Bioressources has been granted a U.S. continuation patent and competitor Aker BioMarine has filed a request for re-examination of that patent. ...

Neptune gains momentum in Asia as krill oil JV outlines new factory plans

18-Jan-2012 By Elaine Watson

Construction of a new factory that will manufacture Neptune Technologies & Bioressources’ krill oil products in Asia, will begin late this year or early next, and start generating revenue in 2014, bosses at the Canadian firm have revealed.

Neptune ups ante in krill patent war with new ‘continuation’ applications

12-Jan-2012 By Elaine Watson

Neptune Technologies and Bioressources has filed ‘continuation’ applications with the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) it says will allow it to pursue “additional patent claims that should preclude our competitors from selling their krill oil...

US patent office grants Aker request to re-examine Neptune's patent; Neptune accuses Aker of 'misleading characterization' of prior art

22-Dec-2011 By Elaine Watson

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Aker BioMarine's request to re-examine a krill oil patent just awarded to arch rival Neptune Technologies & Bioressources.

Neptune shares start trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange

28-Nov-2011 By Elaine Watson

Canadian krill oil specialist Neptune Technologies and Bioressources has started trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Neptune and Aker engage in public war-of-words over krill patent

17-Nov-2011 By Elaine Watson

Suggestions by Aker Biomarine that Neptune Technologies and Bioressources misrepresented the novelty of the inventions claimed in its newly-granted krill oil patent are “baseless”, Neptune bosses have insisted.

Krill wars round two: Neptune patent is ‘invalid’ and ‘unenforceable’, says Enzymotec

06-Oct-2011 By Elaine Watson

Israeli nutritional lipids giant Enzymotec has weighed into the patent infringement row engulfing the krill oil industry with a statement from its boss declaring rival Neptune’s new US patent for marine phospholipids ‘invalid’ and ‘unenforceable’ and...