With nearly half a million applications filed annually — that's one almost every minute of every day — the United States Patent and Trademark Office is the busiest in the world. But while America is a nation of prolific innovation, the number of patents filed in the U.S. nutrition industry is far below average. Of those nutrition industry patents that are filed, still fewer actually get issued.
There are several reasons for this. Beyond the difficulties of having truly patentable inventions with supporting science, a primary factor is that the idea of protecting discoveries has come slowly to the nutrition industry. The dietary supplements,...
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