Patents can be key ingredients in any recipe for success

When you come up with a new recipe, patent protection is seldom the next step in your thought process. But it probably should be. As with any invention, a recipe that passes the legal tests for patentability can be given patent protection.  Patents can be applied to ‘recipes’ across many industries, from food manufacturing and animal nutrition through to non-edible compositions, medicaments, and chemical and biotechnological technologies…