Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets instrument reagent systems. The Company offers medical products to automate tissues and slide staining.
In India, the Pharmaceutical business of Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. is focused on Automated coverslipper and methods of use, Method and apparatus for imaging a sample using a microscope scanner, Method and apparatus for imaging a sample using a microscope scanner,Automated high volume slide processing system.
Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. filed patent application numbered 4502/DELNP/2013 that is titled ENHANCED DEPOSITION OF CHROMOGENS UTILIZING PYRIMIDINE ANALOGS. This patent application has been granted as Patent Number 316900.
The invention covers Microbiology compounds. This invention relates to compositions that enhance the deposition of detectable moieties on tissue samples, methods utilizing these compositions and kits including these compositions. The compositions include a deposition enhancer having a formula and/or where R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently selected from aliphatic, aryl, halogen, a heteroatom-containing moiety, and hydrogen; R1 and/or R3 can be bound to R2 to form a fused, aromatic ring system; R5 is selected from a heteroatom-containing moiety; A is selected from, a carbon atom, a heteroatom, other than sulfur, and any combination thereof; n is 1-5, an enzyme, a specific binding moiety and a detectable moiety.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act, wherein the examiner stated that the Claims 1-19 falls under section 3(d) of Patent Act 1970, as it is directed to mere use of a known method for detecting a target in a sample by proximally depositing a marker. In the absence of experiment data, it is unclear whether any unknown technical effect is produced or not.
As a response to said objection, the applicant made submissions to have been reiterated and it has been made to look at them again as it is a novel method.
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