SRF Limited is a chemical based multi-business entity engaged in the manufacturing of industrial and specialty intermediates. The company’s diversified business portfolio covers Technical Textiles, Fluorochemicals, Specialty Chemicals, Packaging Films and Engineering Plastics.
In India, the Pharmaceutical business of SRF Limited is focused on Preparation of Olefins Containing Fluorine, Halosubstituted Trifluoromethylpyridines, Preparation of 2-(Trihalomethyl) Benzamide, Preparation of Dibenzenesulfonimide.
SRF Limited filed a patent application numbered 1884/DEL/2013 that is titled as PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF SUBSTITUTED AND/OR UNSUBSTITUTED BENZYLAMINES. This patent application has been granted as Patent Number 297150.
The invention covers the field of chemical compounds. The invention provides a process for the preparation of substituted and unsubstituted benzylamines of Formula I.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act, wherein the examiner stated that the claims 1-9 relates to mere use of a known process which neither results in a new product nor employ any new reactant.
As a response to the said objection, the applicant responded by submitting technical and scientific arguments by submitting that the novelty is brought by technical arguments.
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