Beverages
CA 2021908 C · Owner: The Procter & Gamble Company · Inventors: Kuznicki, James Thaddeus; Heckert, David Clinton; Tsai, Chee-Hway
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A beverage containing a flavorant and green tea solids or flavanols is disclosed. The beverage can contain sweeteners. Caffeine can also be present in the beverage in ratio of caffeine to flavanols of from about 1:1 to about 1:30. The beverage can be carbonated or non-carbonated, i.e. a still beverage such as fruit juice or coffee. The preferred green tea solids are catechin and epicatechin and their derivatives. When caffeine is present this, beverage retains the alertness benefit of caffeine along with the relaxing effects attributed to the green tea solids.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed July 25, 1990 and granted February 27, 1996. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 25, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 25, 2012.
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