Phytosome

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Phytosome is a marketing term for a patent process for producing herbal extracts.

It is claimed^[1] that phytosomes are better absorbed and have better results than "conventional herbal extracts". Products marketed using this term include acytl-l-carnatine.

An attempt to trademark the term failed on appeal^[2]

Legal analysis held "...Applicant’s fatal error, according to the Board, was in using the term as the sole designation for its new product."^[3]

At least one dictionary has defined it as “a new term cosmetologists are using for the combination of liposomes ... and plant extracts.”^{[citation needed]}