Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Locke Lidell & Sapp LLP
  • Method for the control of vegetation using herbicidal composition containing carboxylic or phoshonic acid salt
    Patent number: 6323153
    Abstract: A method for selectively controlling undesirable vegetation by contacting the leaves with a herbicidal composition comprising a carboxylic or phosphonic acid salt known to form a coordination compound with calcium or magnesium salts. In a preferred embodiment, the carboxylic or phosphonic acid salt is an alkali salt of at least one acid selected from an aminopolycarboxylic acid, an aliphatic carboxylic acid, a hydroxycarboxylic acid, an amino acid, an ether polycarboxylic acid, a phosphonic acid and a polyphosphonic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Falcon Lab LLC
    Inventor: Robert A. Smiley