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 Aktiengesellschaft filed patent application numbered 7313/DELNP/2011 that is titled as ACTIVE INGREDIENT COMBINATIONS WITH INSECTICIDAL AND ACARICIDAL PROPERTIES. This patent application has been granted as Patent Number 316578.
The invention covers AgroChemical compound. The invention relates to novel combinations of active ingredients consisting of at least one known compound of formula (I), in which R1 and A have the meanings cited in the description, and at least one other known active ingredient from the classes of tetronic or tetramic acids. The novel combinations of active ingredients are particularly suitable for controlling animal pests such as insects and undesired acaricides.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act that It is not clear if the claimed combination act to provide an enhancement of the known efficacy w.r.t the known compound or combinations thereto.
As a response to the said objection, the applicant submits that specification and annexure A of the document has been shown to depict enhanced insecticidal activity of the claimed composition.
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