BASF SE is a chemical company. The Company operates in six segments, including chemicals, plastics, performance products, functional solutions, agricultural solutions, and oil and gas. BASF offers products for the chemical, automotive, construction, agriculture, oil, plastics, electrical, electronics, furniture, and paper industries, and provides a range of system solutions and services.
In India, the Pharmaceutical business of BASF SE is focused on Method of preparing a polycarbodiimide polymer and polycarbodiimide polymer prepared thereby, Process for the production of sintered moldings.
BASF SE filed patent application filed patent application numbered 8714/CHENP/2013 that is titled as 5H FURAN 2 ONE DERIVATIVES FOR STABILIZATION OF ORGANIC MATERIAL. This Patent Application has been granted as Patent Number 318000.
This invention covers Polymer technology compound. A composition, which comprises a) an organic material susceptible to oxidative, thermal or light-induced degradation; and b) a compound of formula I (Formula I) (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 are independently from each other H, C1-C8-alkyl, C4-C8-cycloalkyl, phenyl, C1-C4-alkoxy or halogen; n is 1, 2, 3, or 4; and when n is 1 A is -C(=0)-OR’1,-C(=0)-N(R‘2)(R’3), -CN, phenyl, which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more C1-C8-alkyl, C4-C8-alkoxy, C5-C7-cycloalkyl or halogen, -H or -S02-phenyl; when n is 2 A is -C(=0)-0-Z1-O-C(=0)-, -C(=0)-N(R” 1)-Z2-N(R”2)-C(=0)- or piperazine-N,N’-biscarbonyl.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act that 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 Applicant humbly submit that the process as claimed in claim 12 for the for the protection of organic material is novel and inventive and therefore do not fall under the purview of Section 3 (d). As none of the cited prior art discloses the method as claimed by claim 12.
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