Tate & Lyle, the maker of the popular sucralose-based sweetener Splenda may see some of the 32 patents protecting the product start to expire next year

Food & Drink Weekly, May 23, 2005

Tate & Lyle, the maker of the popular sucralose-based sweetener Splenda may see some of the 32 patents protecting the product start to expire next year. Splenda will see important U.S. and European patents expire between next year and 2009. Also, a handful of Chinese upstarts are already producing commercial quantities of a similar sweetener for Asian markets, which account for about one-sixth of the global demand for Splenda.

Analysts say the only factor stopping the Chinese manufacturers from entering the U.S. and European markets are Splenda's patents.

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