Phytosome
A phytosome is a complex of a natural active ingredient and a phospholipid. The most common example of a phytosome is lecithin.[1]
It is claimed that phytosome increases absorption of "conventional herbal extracts" or isolated active principles both topically[2] as well as orally.[3]
Complexation with phospholipids has been applied to a number of popular herbal extracts and active molecules including
An attempt to trademark the term in the USA failed on appeal. Legal analysis in the USA held "...Applicant's fatal error, according to the Board, was in using the term as the sole designation for its new product."[9] At least one dictionary has defined it as "a new term cosmetologists are using for the combination of liposomes ... and plant extracts."[citation needed]
Nevertheless, Phytosome - along with Meriva - is a registered trademark of Indena S.p.A. in major countries.[10]
Footnotes
- ^ "Phytosome" (PDF). indena.com.
- PMID 1809296.
- ^ Indena's Phytosome official site
- PMID 11400198.
- PMID 19473802.
- S2CID 6763929.
- S2CID 27842833.
- PMID 9861443.
- ^ John L. Welch, The Top Ten Losing TTAB Arguments (PDF), p. 14, archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2009,
- ^ "Trade mark name Contains: Phytosome". TMView. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
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