GE Healthcare Limited produces, generates, and markets medical goods. The Company operates two divisions, the imaging division specializes in x-rays, nuclear imaging, MRI’s, ultrasound, and radiotherapy, and the life science division focuses on drug discovery systems, research and laboratory instruments, and systems for biopharmaceutical manufacturing and purification.
In India, the business of GE Healthcare Limited focuses on the alkylation method, crystallization process of tricyclic indole derivatives, non-invasive method for pressure measurement, radiotracer compositions and methods, radiolabelling method, and radiolabelled octreotide analogs as pet tracers.
GE Healthcare Limited filed a patent application numbered 10100/DELNP/2015 that is titled ENANTIOMERIC SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION OF 2, 3, 4, 9 -TETRAHYDRO- 1H -CARBAZOLE -4 -CARBOXYLIC ACID AMIDE DERIVATIVES. The patent has been filed in the field of Chemicals. This Patent Application has been granted as Patent Number 352336. This invention relates to a method comprising, separating an S-enantiomer from an R-enantiomer wherein said S-enantiomer and said R-enantiomer is provided in a racemic mixture and wherein each of said S-enantiomer and said R-enantiomer is a compound of wherein R1 is C1-4 alkylene-LG wherein LG is a leaving group.
During the patent examination, the Patent Examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Patents Act, 1970 stating that the subject matter of the claims relate to a mere derivative of known process and known compound of prior art and also fail to describe any significant improvement with respect to the therapeutic effect.
As a response, the Applicant submitted that the method is novel and inventive over the cited prior arts since none of the cited prior art suggests addition of water to perform the precipitation step, thereby to successfully obtain good quality powder form of the compounds of present Formula I. Further, certain claims have been deleted to render the objection moot.
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