Syngenta AG produces agrochemical products. The Company produces herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and seeds for field crops, vegetables, and flowers. Syngenta serves customers worldwide.
In India, the Pharmaceutical business of Syngenta India Ltd. focuses on liquid compositions for treating plant propagation materials, novel solid forms of a microbicide, carboxamide derivatives used as fungicides, novel microbicides, and herbicide compositions used thereof.
Syngenta Participations AG filed application numbered 10027/DELNP/2012 that is titled ” METHOD OF CONTROLLING NEONICOTINOID RESISTANT HEMIPTERA USING SPIROHETEROCYCLIC PYRROLIDINE DIONE DERIVATIVES.” The patent has been filed in the field of Agrochemicals. This patent application has been granted as Patent Number 342874.
The invention covers Agrochemicals and incorporates a method for controlling insects from the order Hemiptera which are resilient to neo-nicotinoid insecticides, through spiro heterocyclic pyrrolidine dione derivatives.
During the patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(i) of the Indian Patent Act, 1970, citing that the claims are non-patentable as they describe a method of controlling insects.
As a response, the Applicant submitted that the claims of the invention categorize the insects and distinctly state that the method excludes the treatment of human or animal body by surgery or therapy, eliminating the restriction under Section 3(i).
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