GE Healthcare is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. As of 2017, the company is a manufacturer and distributor of diagnostic imaging agents and radiopharmaceuticals for imaging modalities that are used in medical imaging procedures.
In India, the Pharmaceutical business of GE Healthcare is focused on Shielding device, Synthesizer diagnostic cassette simulator, Chromatography column, Determination of chromatography conditions.
GE Healthcare filed patent application numbered 10714/DELNP/2014 that is titled PREPARATION OF COMPOSITION COMPRISING GAS MICROBUBBLES. This patent application has been granted as Patent Number 317612.
The invention covers chemical compound. The invention relates to a process for preparation of ultrasound contrast media, particularly to compositions comprising gas microbubbles and more particularly to microbubbles encapsulated by proteins. The microbubbles produced by the process of the invention will have a narrow size distribution. The invention further relates to apparatus useful in the process of the invention.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act that claims 1-7 attracts the provisions of section 3(d) of the Act, as a process for preparing a composition comprising encapsulated gas microbubbles is considered to be a new use of a known process.
As a response to the said objection, the applicant submitted that the process for preparing a composition comprising encapsulated gas microbubbles is considered to be a new use of a known process.
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