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Dec 13, 2005 | 10:20 PM CST
Laboratory Notebooks: Valuable Indicators of Intellectual Property
By: Dolores T. Kenney, Esq., Olson & Hierl, Ltd.
Laboratory notebooks are important corporate records that should clearly show tests performed in the lab, materials used and when they were used. They can provide essential evidence to the Patent Office in the event that questions of patent rights arise.
Dec 13, 2005 | 10:11 PM CST
Perfumery Raw Materials and Other Topics
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
Biotec Pharmacon describes methods of skin and ulcer treatment and use of water-soluble β-(1,3) glucans as active agents for producing therapeutic skin treatment agents.
Dec 13, 2005 | 09:51 PM CST
Cell Growth–Promoting Peptides and Other Topics
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
Bissett et al report that topical application of niacinamide reduces yellowing, wrinkling, red blotchiness and hyperpigmented spots in aging facial skin.
Dec 13, 2005 | 09:49 PM CST
Technology Transfer: Trade Secrets
By: Larry Plonsker, Chemical Network Associates
Trade secrets and patents are very different intellectual properties. You can’t have both on the same invention. A patent gives the owner the right to bar anyone from making, using or selling the subject of the claims in the region where the patents are registered. The patent becomes a public document and, therefore, cannot be a trade secret.
Dec 08, 2005 | 01:47 AM CST
From Skin Warming Foam to Octoxynol Safety Skin and Skin Care
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
Skin-warming foam: Pola Chemical Industries discloses skin-warming cosmetic foam compositions containing polyhydric alcohols and defined polyglycerin fatty acid esters. The foam is suitable for massaging and/or cleansing.
Dec 01, 2005 | 04:04 PM CST
New Technologies
By: Charles Fox
Palmitoyl pentapeptide: Robinson et al. report on the topical use of palmitoyl pentapeptide to improve photoaged human facial skin. The palmitoyl pentapeptide palmitoyl-lysine-threoninethreonine-lysine-serine (pal-KTTKS) is a synthetic material that was designed as a topical agent to stimulate collagen production and thus provide a skin antiwrinkle benefit.
Nov 01, 2005 | 03:06 PM CST
Caring for Colored Hair
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
Researchers have studied the moisturizing effects of topical nicotinamide on atopic dry skin. Certain moisturizers can improve skin barrier function in atopic dermatitis. The effect of topical nicotinamide on atopic dry skin is unknown. The effect of topical nicotinamide on atopic dry skin was studied and the results compared with the effect of white petrolatum in a left-right comparison study. This and other studies are described in this Technically Speaking column.
Sep 30, 2005 | 04:01 PM CDT
Some New Antimicrobials
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
Those interested in an update on skin moisturization should obtain a reprint of the review “Stratum Corneum Moisturization at the Molecular Level: An update in relation to the dry skin cycle” by Rawlings et al. It traces the development of thought about the mechanism for skin moisturization for the past few decades. Charles Fox covers this any many other topics in his column.
Sep 30, 2005 | 03:48 PM CDT
Emerging Technologies and the Future of Cosmetic Science
By: Randy Schueller and Perry Romanowski, Alberto …
In this article, the authors look forward to what cosmetic science might be like in the future with what emerging technologies, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and nanotechnology, may offer to the cosmetics industry.
Sep 01, 2005 | 09:38 AM CDT
Skin Pigmentation
By: Charles Fox, Independent Consultant
A recent Beiersdorf patent discloses the antiaging benefits of licochalcone A or an extract containing licochalcone A from Glycyrrhiza inflata roots. According to the patent, licochalcone A (alone or in an extract) can be used in cosmetic or dermatologic preparations for treating and preventing symptoms of intrinsic and/or extrinsic skin aging, and for treating and preventing the damaging effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation on the skin.