Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Products per se – or processes of preparing or treating... – Plant material is basic ingredient other than extract,...
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-31
2006-01-31
Hendricks, Keith (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Products per se, or processes of preparing or treating...
Plant material is basic ingredient other than extract,...
C426S629000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06991824
ABSTRACT:
The invention is directed to food and food additive compositions comprising one or more human milk proteins produced in the seeds of a transgenic plant and methods of making the same. The invention is further directed to improved infant formula comprising such food supplement composition.
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Hagie Frank E.
Huang Ning
Rodriguez Raymond L.
Dehlinger Peter J.
Hendricks Keith
Mahoney Jacqueline F.
Perkins Coie LLP
Ventria Bioscience
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