Dietary Supplements With Natural Ingredients Can Be Patented

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Dietary supplements with natural ingredients can be patented. The dv must be declared for all dietary ingredients for which fda has established daily values except that 1 the percent for protein may be omitted and 2 on the labels of dietary supplements. Dietary supplements containing natural ingredients pat us2002048575 perkes lynn patent. While lots of patents in this area are process patents where you are patenting the extraction process for example if you are the first to purify and isolate a natural product you can patent it.
Coronary artery disease myocardial infarction stroke and other vascular occlusions are major health concerns. At microsentials we continuously invest in new pathways for human health from fruits vegetables grains and other substances. The invention provides a dietary supplement comprising at least one flavonoid source and an enzyme that is effective for inhibiting in vivo platelet activity and ldl cholesterol oxidation in a mammal at a dosage of about 30 mg kg or less.
Dietary supplements cannot be patented because they contain ingredients found in nature. The invention relates to dietary supplements containing natural ingredients. A common characteristic of these diseases is the atherosclerotic process or the narrowing of arteries.
A company can t file a patent for calcium for example because calcium is everywhere. What can be patented in the world of natural ingredients. That molecule is what the pharmaceutical company patents.
It s ridiculous for a company to hold a patent for natural compounds. The invention provides a dietary supplement comprising at least one flavonoid source and an enzyme that is effective for inhibiting i in vivo platelet activity and ldl cholesterol oxidation in a mammal at a dosage of about 30 mg kg or less. Use of dietary supplements in health.
The supplement may contain flavonoid sources found in grape seed extracts grape skin extracts bilberry extracts ginkgo biloba extracts or the flavonoid. In contrast method of use patent protection for a dietary supplement focuses on methods of maintaining a person s health. Within the tvpp united states.