Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft provides agriculture products. The Company offers crop protection, seeds, and non-agricultural pest control products. Bayer CropScience serves customers worldwide.
In India the Pharmaceutical business of Bayer CropScience AG is focused on biological control agent, preparing bis(3-aminophenyl) disulphides, iodosulfuron-methyl sodium salt, Binary fungicidal mixtures.
Bayer CropScience AG filed patent application numbered 1315/DELNP/2015 that is titled as 3 PHENYL ISOXAZOLINE DERIVATIVES WITH HERBICIDAL ACTION. This patent application has been granted as Patent Number 317829.
The invention covers chemical compound. The invention relates to 3-phenylisoxazolin derivatives of formula (I) and to the use thereof as herbicides. In said formula (I), X 2 to X 6 , and R 1 to R 3 stand for groups such as hydrogen, halogen and organic groups such as substituted alkyl. W * represents carboxyl, cyano or CHO.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act that the Patents Act as the prior arts disclose structurally identical/equivalent compounds, Which discloses compounds 2,5,18,23-24 which fall entirely within the scope of the present compounds of formula I. Some have the same core moiety as in the present case.
As a response to the said objection, the applicant pointed out that there are structural differences.
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