PATENTS

THE SWISS PATENT
Crescina invention patents are approved by the Swiss Confederation's Federal Institute of Intellectual Property and registered at the number CH 689 821 A5.
The contents of the patent were developed from an application (no. 1330/98) presented on 22 June 1998 and this was successfully concluded with issue and publication of Crescina invention patent deeds on 15 December 1999.

THE USA PATENT
Crescina was recognised by the American authorities with the patent registered as number US 6,479,059 B2, dated 12 November 2002.
It is no secret that acquiring acknowledgement of inventions in the United States of America is more protracted and complex. Actually, the company had made its first application of international PCT registration in all the states of the PCT convention on 21 June 1999, followed by investigation by the competent international organization of any previous applications referred to the request for an international patent for Crescina.
After the required international preliminaries were completed (PCT and Europe), Labo forwarded its application for a USA patent on 18.12.2000, registered as no. 09/738,345, conceded on 12 November 2002.

THE EUROPEAN PATENT
Crescina's patent was registered at number EP 1 089 704 B1.
Crescina's European patent as a "cosmetic product for the reactivation of physiological hair growth in areas affected by thinning where follicles are not yet totally atrophied", emerged from the application deposited on 21.06.1999, followed by the relevant examination report issued by the European Patents office located in Munich. After being successfully examined, notification of the concession of application was issued by the Patents Office on 21 May 2003, and subsequently the patent was published on 11.02.2004.