The Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status of Natural Alternatives International’s sustained release beta-alanine (SR CarnoSyn) has been affirmed by a panel of independent experts.
Lutein suppliers Kemin and OmniActive are locked in a legal battle over IP around blue light claims, with the International Trade Commission investigating the dispute, and an inter partes review of the patents.
The krill wars have resurfaced in a big way with the filing of a patent infringement action before the International Trade Commission by Aker BioMarine against competitor Rimfrost and two of its partners.
Botanical ingredients supplier Sabinsa Corporation prides itself on its long list of patents and the history of innovation that represents. The company is making headway in defending that legacy in the curcumin sector with the announcement of the settlement...
On Wednesday a federal court in Florida dimissed two counterclaims on technical grounds made by Cyanotech Inc. in its ongoing astaxanthin patent infringement battle with Valensa Inc. Cyanotech has option to refile the claims after correcting certain legal...
Patent enforcement has become more of a hot button issue in the dietary supplement realm for a number of reasons. Companies are gaining a deeper appreciation of how a strong intellectual property portfolio can both add to their bottom line and to the...
Neptune Technologies and Bioressources said it will be granted a new US patent for its krill oil and has announced a management reorganization pertaining to the company’s continued efforts to recover from a fire that destroyed its manufacturing plant.
A German court has rejected global CoQ10 leader Kaneka’s charge that rival Zhejiang Medicine Company (ZMC) and its European Distributor, Kyowa Hakko GmbH Europe, infringed its patent – a ruling ZMC hopes will influence pending actions.
Natural Alternatives International (NAI) has settled its patent infringement case vs BPI Sports and Image Sports (trading as Image Nutrition) over their use of sports nutrition ingredient beta-alanine.
DNP International – the latest in a string of firms to be sued by Natural Alternatives International (NAI) for patent infringement over beta-alanine - insists the patent at issue is invalid and predicts it will “ultimately be vindicated” by the courts.
Nutraceuticals firm VDF FutureCeuticals (VDF FC) and Hawaiian superfruit juice maker KonaRed have traded insults in a public spat over the former’s intellectual property.
Schiff Nutrition International, Aker BioMarine ASA and its US subsidiary Aker BioMarine Antarctic USA have filed a motion to stay a patent infringement lawsuit filed against them by Aker’s arch rival Neptune Technologies & Bioressources.
Neptune Technologies & Bioressources has bolstered its intellectual property portfolio further after securing a new US patent (No. 8,057,825) awarding it the exclusive use of krill extracts in the US as a method for reducing cholesterol, platelet...
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...
The biggest players in krill oil are at war again - this time over a US patent awarded to Neptune Technologies & Bioressources, which its arch rival argues should never have been granted, and Neptune has immediately moved to enforce in the courts.
A Chilean krill extraction specialist has applied for a global patent it says will allow oils to be extracted from krill without the use of solvents and offer savings of about 30 per cent.
New York-based OmniActive Health Technologies says the reissue of a lutein patent to Kemin Industries in June will not have any bearing on the legal dispute between the two lutein suppliers.
Iowa-based supplier, Kemin Health, has been reissued patents first issued in 1995 that will “solidify its position” as a leading supplier of the eye health ingredient, lutein.
In an ongoing legal battle over polyphenol enriched cocoa
extracts, Natraceutical Group has filed counterclaims alleging
Mars' patents are invalid and unenforceable.
The patent community breathed a collective sigh of relief on
October 31 when the US District Court for the Eastern District of
Virginia granted a preliminary injunction blocking the US Patent
Office's Claims and Continuations...
Another patent infringement case has been settled between two
nutraceutical ingredient companies - this time involving Nutratech
and Syntech International over the use of citrus aurantium
extract.
The nutraceuticals industry has a dynamic technology landscape
where a product life cycle may be abbreviated. Amid the constant
pressure to drive new products to market and the struggle to
establish and maintain market share, engaging...
Natural ingredient company Kemin vows to fight on after a US court
rules in favour of the pigment manufacturer Pigmentos Vegetales del
Centro(Piveg). Kemin had sought preliminary injunction against the
firm for the manufacture of...
Clearing the final hurdle for a new patent, nutraceutical company
NutraCea could soon be marketing its stabilised rice bran
derivatives on the back of claims to beat cardiovascular disease.
Two of the supplement makers sued by St Louis-based ZeaVision
earlier this year have agreed to settle the patent infringement
claims, said the company, which is still pressing for damages from
another supplement firm and Roche Vitamins.
Mexican company Pigmentos Vegetales del Centro (Piveg) was recently
granted a temporary stay of injunction - the initial phase of a
patent infringement suit initiated by lutein supplier Kemin Foods
and the Catholic University of America...
Naturol has filed a provisional patent application to protect the
process by which it extracts Paclitaxel from Canadian Yew trees for
use in a range of anti-cancer applications.
Mannatech Inc. of Texas has been awarded a patent by the Australian
Patent Office for the glyconutrient blend listed as 'Compositions
of Plant Carbohydrates as Dietary Supplements.'
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