Burcon’s patent strategy includes patents and patent applications to protect the uses of Puratein®, Supertein™ and CLARISOY® as functional foods and beverage ingredients.

intellectual property

intellectual property

Burcon has been granted 31 U.S. patents over its protein extraction technologies and protein product uses.

Burcon has an additional 73 patents under review by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. These 73 patents can be grouped into three categories:

  1. Applications to protect additional novel protein extraction and purification technologies.
  2. Applications to protect the uses of Puratein®, Supertein™ and CLARISOY®: for example, as functional food and beverage ingredients.
  3. Applications to protect the "signature characteristics" of Puratein®, Supertein™ and CLARISOY®.

In addition to its U.S. patent applications, Burcon has applied to have most of its inventions protected internationally under the Patent Cooperation Treaty of the World Intellectual Property Organization.  This would protect Burcon's intellectual property in some 35 countries, including the European Union, Japan, China, India, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.  Burcon has in total 176 issued patents and over 330 pending applications.