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IP Ingredients: Patenting Performance – Protecting the Science Behind a Personal Best
The world of food supplements moves quickly. A product can trend on social media as soon as a top athlete is seen using it in training. However, it can still …
Read articleIP Ingredients: Trade Mark Licensing in Food and Drink
Trade mark licensing allows a brand owner, the licensor, to grant a third party, the licensee, the right to use its intellectual property in exchange for royalty payments. In the …
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Are Functional Foods ‘Therapeutic’? Insights from the EPO’s Latest Ruling
Abstract: EPO decision T 1396/23 confirms that functional foods can support medical‑use claims when their therapeutic effects are credible, data‑backed, and tied to recognised clinical outcomes. This provides some comfort to …
Read articleIP Ingredients: The IP in Personalised nutrition
Personalised nutrition is the provision of dietary advice which is tailored to a person based on their individual characteristics and lifestyle. As analytical techniques become faster and cheaper, and AI …
Read articleIP Ingredients: Winter Case Law Review 2025
A seasonal tasting of recent IP decisions across the UK and EU. Including notes on what brand owners, creatives, R&D teams and food and drink businesses should take away. Patents …
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IP Ingredients: The companies making – and patenting – alt coffee
How do you like your coffee? Frothy or flat? Milky or black? Oat-milk or soy? How about coffee which isn’t derived from coffee beans? Coffee is the second most traded …
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IP Ingredients: Summer Case Law Review 2025
As the British summer swings once again between sunburn and showers, it’s a great time to take stock of what the first half of the year has delivered by way …
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IP Ingredients: What Will The EU’s Design Reform Package Do For Food & Drink Businesses?
As reported by our colleague Joanne Meredith in her recent post (click here to read), Phase One of the EU’s “Design Reform Package” became effective on 1 May 2025, with …
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