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Aug 11, 2010 | 10:31 AM CDT
Patent Picks—Imaging Skin, Simulating Eyelashes, Assaying Immune Response and More
By: Rachel Grabenhofer
This edition of "Patent Picks" features recently issued patents relevant to advances in testing for cosmetics R&D.
Jul 28, 2010 | 09:52 AM CDT
Patent Picks—Skin Imaging, Carnitine Creatine for Skin, Sclareol for Antiaging and More
By: Rachel Grabenhofer
Cosmetics & Toiletries revives its former “Patent Picks” column with this edition, featuring recently issued patents relevant to the skin care category.
Jun 29, 2010 | 12:46 PM CDT
From Caper to Prickly Pear for Dermatitis to Dual Phase Mouthwash: Literature Review
By: Charles Fox (See In Memory Sidebar)
This month’s survey of recent patent and research literature describes money-making ideas for personal care product development, including indirect antioxidants for skin protection, caper and prickly pear extracts to address skin conditions, granulated shampoo and a dual phase mouthwash, among others.
May 27, 2010 | 01:10 PM CDT
Heated Sunless Tanning for Rapid Color and Other Topics: Literature Findings
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
This month’s survey of recent patent and research literature describes money-making ideas for personal care product development, including whitening and skin wrinkle-fighting women’s underwear, heated sunless tanners for rapid color development and collagen stimulation via beta-thujaplicin, among others.
May 21, 2010 | 09:40 AM CDT
Waterless Foam Patented for Active Delivery
Foamix Ltd. has received a patent (US Pat. 7,704,518) for its Hygroscopic and Waterless Breakable Foam. This patent, titled "Foamable vehicle and pharmaceutical compositions thereof," describes a pharmaceutical foam that is able to deliver a wide range of active agents to treat skin and body cavity conditions.
Apr 30, 2010 | 01:09 PM CDT
Boosting SPF with Copolymers and Other Topics: Literature Findings
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
This month’s survey of recent patent and research literature describes moneymaking ideas for personal care development, including an anti-inflammatory to soothe the skin post raw material irritation, lactulose for hair styling, reducing the damage caused by perms, boosting SPF with copolymers and the treatment of skin with heated lotion, among others.
Mar 30, 2010 | 02:46 PM CDT
Microemulsions for Sprayable Delivery and Other Topics: Literature Findings
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
This month’s survey of recent patent and research literature describes moneymaking ideas for personal care product development, including fish DNA fragments for antiwrinkle skin care, soy peptides in cosmeceuticals, improvements in the efficacy of DHA, organo-sulfur compounds for skin lightening, and silicone foaming and detergency, among others.
Mar 30, 2010 | 11:54 AM CDT
Function vs. Size: Patenting Nano-scale Cosmetic Invention
By: Jeffrey L. Eichen, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz …
Nanometer-scale components are increasingly appearing in cosmetic formulations and a corresponding increase in related patents has occurred. To assist inventors and formulators in protecting nano-scale inventions, this article describes approaches to claimed inventions and illustrates key variables that formulators can monitor and record to give a patent the best chance of later being found valid and infringed.
Feb 26, 2010 | 01:54 PM CST
Stable O/W Nanoemulsions for Skin and Other Topics: Literature Findings
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
This month’s survey of recent patent and research literature describes moneymaking ideas for personal care product development, including stable o/w nanoemulsions for skin, inhibiting melanin production with pyrazolylpyrimidine, fluorescent pigment flakes for color cosmetics, enhancing the solubility of actives, and popping foam in aerosols, among others.
Feb 01, 2010 | 11:52 AM CST
Instant/Gradual Self Tanning and Other Topics: Literature Findings
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
This month’s survey of recent patent and research literature describes money-making ideas for personal care product development, including whitening with vitamin C and Opuntia ficus indica, a pulverulent for hair shaping and shine, an amino functional silicone treatment to use post-relaxing, and instant/gradual self tanning, among others.