Unilever PLC manufactures branded and packaged consumer goods, including food, detergents, fragrances, home and personal care products. Dually listed with UNA NA.
In India, the Pharmaceutical business of Unilever PLC is focused on Lactams, Use of Polymers, Use of Branched Copolymers in Polymer Blends.
UNILEVER PLC filed patent application numbered 201627000465 that is titled as FOAMABLE PERSONAL CARE COMPOSITION COMPRISING A CONTINUOUS OIL PHASE. This Patent Application has been granted as Patent Number 317947.
This invention covers Pharmaceuticals compound. A foamable, fluid personal cleansing composition having a continuous oil phase comprising at least one carrier oil, the continuous oil phase having fatty acid soap crystals and solid synthetic cleansing surfactant dispersed therein.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act that the mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not result in the enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance or the mere discovery of any new property or new use for a known substance or of the mere use of a known process, machine or apparatus unless such known process results in a new product or employs at least one new reactant such substance are not inventions within the meaning of the Patents Act,1970.
As a response, it is submitted that the advantage of fatty acid soap crystals and solid synthetic surfactant with defined particle size is that it provides a composition with improved storage stability and increased viscosity.
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