Proposed Rule Could Slow Supplement Firms’ Patent Protection Improvements
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The Patent and Trademark Office has proposed a regulation that could pose new challenges down the road to dietary supplement firms interested in using the patent process to protect their intellectual properties
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