The following small businesses involved in the food processing industry have received grant money from the Australian Government to develop their product or to protect their product using IP rights:
Bacchus Distillery Pty Ltd – grant of $335,748 for production of a taste-neutral wine spirit (WO 2006/108232).
Matilda Fresh Foods Pty Ltd – grant of $1,539,460 for an automated broccoli processing system (WO 2007/104097), see Figure 16.
Figure 16: Matilda Fresh Foods Vegetable Harvester
Source: WO 2007/104097
Anadis Ltd – grant of $973,013 to develop antibodies for medical foods (WO 2001/087315; WO 2006/053383).
Kristevefourspace Ussy Pty Ltd – grant of $79,231 for registration and insurance of intellectual property rights in export markets - their invention is in manufacture of bagasse powder (WO 2007/140521).
Chocolate Graphics Pty Ltd – multiple grants – multiple patents including WO 2002/015707 (chocolate with raised design) and WO 2005/029971 (manufacture of moulds for chocolate products).
IPV Pty Ltd – grant of $64,000 for development of fully integrated freezer-to-oven automated food service system (WO 2002/069767; WO 2006/8128212), see Figure 17.
Figure 17: IPV food product heating apparatus
Source: WO/2002/069767
Phoenix Eagle Co Pty Ltd – For registration and insurance of intellectual property rights in export markets – WO 2004/008887 & AU 2012265579 – fruit and vegetable derived compositions.
Taste Master Pty Ltd, AU – multiple grants and inventions, including WO 2012/021936 for an encapsulation process.
Unistraw Patent Holdings Ltd – multiple grants and multiple inventions. One example is WO 2010/054439 – a probiotic composition comprising a probiotic microorganism embedded within the matrix, where the matrix maintains the viability of the microorganisms and releases the microorganisms into and upon contact with liquid carrier (Figure 18).
Figure 18: Unistraw probiotic straw
Source: WO/2010/054439
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