RES USA, LLC provides innovative technical solutions to high-value scientific and engineering problems for leading companies around the world in energy and chemicals, automotive and fuels, and pharmaceuticals.
The company filed patent application numbered 3321/DELNP/2013 that is titled STABLE SLURRY BED FISCHER-TROPSCH CATALYST WITH HIGH SURFACE AREA AND ACTIVITY. This patent application has been granted as Patent Number 290984.
The invention covers chemical compounds. The invention relates to a method of forming a catalyst providing at least one metal nitrate solution; combining each of the at least one metal nitrate solutions with a precipitating agent to form a precipitation solution and to precipitate at least one catalyst precipitate therefrom; and incorporating a base during precipitation such that the pH of the precipitation solution is maintained at a value in the range of from 8 to 10; or incorporating a base subsequent precipitation to form a precipitate slurry having a pH in the range of from 9 to 13.5; or adding a base both during and subsequent precipitation such that the pH of the precipitation solution is maintained at a value in the range of from 8 to 10 and the pH of the precipitated slurry is adjusted to a pH in the range of from 9 to 13.5.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act, wherein the examiner stated that the claims 1-13 fall within the scope of Section 3(d) of the Indian Patent Act and they Appear to be a mere new use of known substance or mere use of a known process which neither results in a new product nor employs any new reactant.
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