Chevron U.S.A. INC. provides energy services. The Company offers fuels, motor oil, fuel additives, base oils, chemicals, natural gas, lubricants, and other related services.
In India, the Pharmaceutical business of Chevron U.S.A. INC. is focused on Synthesis of SFE framework type molecular sieves, Catalyst dumping spool assembly, well deliquification, Synthesis of aluminosilicate zeolites having the offretite structure.
Chevron U.S.A. INC. filed patent application 3548/DELNP/2013 that is titled METHOD FOR PREPARING SMALL CRYSTAL SSZ 32. This patent application has been granted as Patent Number 317639.
The invention covers chemical compound. The invention is directed to a method for making small crystal zeolites, such as small crystal SSZ-32, in the absence of an amine component.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act that the said claims are the mere use of a known method which neither results in a new product nor employs any new reactant
As a response to the said objection, the applicant submitted that without identifying the specific ‘known process’, neither can the Controller assert that the claimed process is a mere use of a known process’, nor can the Applicant accurately respond to the same. the Applicant is unable to respond clearly to the objection, severely hampering the Applicant’s right to be given a reasonable opportunity to defend its Patent Application.
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