Functional Food Patents
The United States functional foods market is relatively immature compared to that of nutraceuticals. From an intellectual property standpoint, this may be because functional food technology develops from within the food industry, while nutraceuticals may come as the result of convergence between the food industry and industries with greater IP acumen. Read more »
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Law | admin May 31, 2009 | 
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