Two leading groups involved in major dispute over krill properties’ patents

Monday, January 2nd 2012 - 03:49 UTC

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US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this week granted Aker BioMarine’s request for re-examination of US patent number 8,030,348 assigned to competitor Neptune Technologies and Bioressources. The re-examination was approved for all 21 claims of the patent and in consideration of multiple references presented by Aker BioMarine. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
” . .reducing cholesterol, platelet adhesion and plaque formation in humans through the administration of krill extract (krill 'meat')“

It seems to me that the only ”novel and non-obvious” feature here is the *claim* that processed krill can help these things, not the substance itself.
Can one patent a 'claim'?
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