World Food Day! Patentable foods: The "Impossible" and the eggless
In the first of her posts on food innovation in celebration of World Food Day this Kat indulges her foodie tendencies and mulls over the fascinating field of food inventions. It may come as a surprise to some that it is possible to patent food products and methods of food manufacture. Provided the product or method is new, non-obvious and has a technical effect, it is perfectly possible that it is patentable subject matter. Successfully changing the characteristics of a food product can represent a significant technical achievement and years of investment in research and development. However, protecting a product using trade secrets (in the manner of the KFC fried chicken recipe) does not prevent someone else independently developing an equivalent food product or recipe . M any food c ompanies have thus turned to patents for IP protection. EP3243392: Past...