Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited is a holding company established through merger of Sankyo and Daiichi pharmaceutical. The Group manufactures pharmaceuticals for human/veterinary use and medical tools and equipment. It also researches and promotes products through related companies throughout the world. The Group also produces food, food additives, livestock feeds, and agrochemicals.
In India, the Pharmaceutical business of Daiichi Sankyo Company is focused on Nucleic acid molecules encoding muteins of human tear lipocalin which bind PCSK9, Human tear lipocalins which bind PCSK9 and methods of use thereof, Liquid preparation of physiologically active peptide.
Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited filed patent application numbered 7923/DELNP/2014 that is titled OPTICAL RESOLUTION METHOD FOR BICYCLIC COMPOUND USING ENZYME. This Patent Application has been granted as as Patent number 317037.
The invention covers Bio-Chemistry compound. The problem addressed by the present invention is to efficiently produce an optically active bicyclic compound. The present invention efficiently produces an optically active bicyclic compound using an enzyme.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act that Claims 1-11 fall within the scope of such clause (d) of section 3 of Indian Patents Act as claimed method is mere use of a known process disclosed in the cited documents.
As a response to said objection, the applicant submits that the production method of the present invention involves preparing the intermediate as an optically active compound in an earlier step in the production and as such, is efficient. In addition, a purification step can be performed more efficiently.
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