10.01.12
INO’Réal SA, Plérin, France, and P.L. Thomas & Co, Inc., Morristown, NJ, have announced today that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has granted Patent # CA 2648985 to INO’Réal and company founder Cédric Bourges. The patent covers the use of saffron, the saffron extracts crocin and picrocrocin, and derivatives of these as a satiety agent in support of a healthy weight. It supports INO’Réal’s Satiereal Saffron Extract in Canada and extends the intellectual property protection of the ingredient into North America for the first time. Similar application patents have been filed in France (FR0651443-granted) and worldwide per the Patent Cooperation Treaty (WO 2007 125243A1-pending).
