Key Initiatives
Proprietary Flavor Formulations in New Drug Product Applications
FEMA has engaged in advocacy efforts with the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) around protecting proprietary flavor formulations intended for use in new drug product applications. Changes in policy at the agency have resulted in increasing requests for extensive information about flavor formulations outside of the Drug Master File (DMF) process, which was established as a resource to protect the intellectual property of drug product ingredients.
Generic Flavor Brief Project
The Consumer Product Companies Forum (CPCF) will identify methods for critical product information sharing between supplier companies and Consumer Product Companies (CPCs) that encourages efficient product development and regulatory review but does not threaten supplier intellectual property ownership or create the appearance of anti-competitive activity.
Ongoing Member Support
FEMA provides its members resources to understand the landscape regarding IP protection in the flavor industry.
On the Horizon
TRADE SECRET PROTECTION IN THE MODERN FLAVOR AND FOOD INDUSTRY
Joanna Drake, JD
FEMA General Counsel
Flavor formulas and food product recipes are critical intellectual property for flavor and food manufacturers respectively. As flavor and food manufacturers navigate an increasingly innovative marketplace, balancing the need to establish internal processes and external approaches to protect these trade secrets with the desire to meet customer transparency demands are essential legal and business functions. Join Joanna Drake, FEMA’s General Counsel to help you make sense of it all. Learn more about the protections and limitations of current US trade secrets law and consider how modern case law can help us identify potential strategies to address challenging trade secret protection considerations in the modern flavor industry.