Patents Assigned to Aventis CropScience
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Patent number: 8642509Abstract: The present invention provides a method of reducing phytotoxicity to crops (especially maize) caused by a herbicidal benzoylisoxazole and/or dione derivative of formula (I) or an agriculturally acceptable salt or metal complex thereof; which method comprises applying to the locus of the crop an antidotally effective amount of an antidote compound, optionally with a partner herbicide.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Aventis Cropscience UK LimitedInventors: Ken Pallett, Ashley Slater
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Patent number: 7781611Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the formula (I) wherein R1 is an unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon radical having a total of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, preferably 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R2 is an unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon radical having a total of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, preferably 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or the group NR1R2 is a heterocyclic ring having 3 to 8 ring atoms which is unsubstituted or substituted and contains the nitrogen atom of the group NR1R2 as ring heteroatom and may also contain one or two further ring heteroatoms from the group consisting of N, O and S, and Q is H or a cation. The compounds of the present invention can advantageously be used for the preparation of sulfonylureas and their precursors such as sulfochlorides or sulfonamides.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2000Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbHInventors: Mark James Ford, Jan Vermehren
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Patent number: 7422998Abstract: Suitable for controlling harmful plants in sugar beet crops composed of tolerant or resistant mutants or transgenic sugar beet plants are herbicide combinations (A)+(B), if appropriate in the presence of safeners, with an effective content of (A) broad-spectrum herbicides from the group (A1) glufosinate (salts) and related compounds, (A2) glyphosate (salts) and related compounds such as sulfosate and (A3) imidazolinones or their salts and (B) herbicides from the group consisting of (B0) one or more structurally different herbicides from the abovementioned group (A) or (B1) foliar- and predominantly soil-acting herbicides which are active against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants, or (B2) herbicides which are active predominantly against dicotyledonous harmful plants, and (B3) herbicides which are predominantly foliar-acting and which can be employed against monocotyledonous harmful plants, or (B4) herbicides which are both foliar- and soil-acting and which can be employed against monocotType: GrantFiled: June 22, 2004Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbHInventors: Erwin Hacker, Hermann Stuebler, Hermann Bieringer, Lothar Willms
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Patent number: 7217816Abstract: The present invention relates to monocotyledon plant cells and plants which are genetically modified, wherein the genetic modification consists of the introduction of an extraneous nucleic acid molecule which codes for a protein with the biological activity of an R1 protein. The present invention further relates to means and methods for the production thereof. Plant cells and plants of this type synthesise a modified starch, which is characterised in that it has an increased phosphate content and/or a modified phoshorylation pattern and/or an increased final viscosity in an RVA profile and/or a reduced peak temperature in DSC analysis and/or an increased gel strength in the texture analysis compared with starch from corresponding non-genetically modified monocotyledon plants. Therefore, the present invention also relates to the starch which is synthesised from the plant cells and plants according to the invention, and to methods of producing said starch.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Aventis Cropscience GmbHInventors: Gabi Schewe, Petra Knies, Simone Franceska Amati, Horst Lörz, Dirk Becker, Volker Landschütze, Jens Pilling
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Publication number: 20070078127Abstract: A method of controlling parasites in or on an animal comprising administering to the animal a parasiticidally effective, substantially non-emetic 1-arylpyrazole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2006Publication date: April 5, 2007Applicant: AVENTIS CROPSCIENCE S.A.Inventors: Scot Huber, David Chou, Stefan Schnatterer, Henricus Bastiaans
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Patent number: 7166294Abstract: The present invention provides a method for controlling ectoparasites of small rodents, thereby preventing the transmission of diseases by arthropod vectors.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2002Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignees: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Aventis CropScience S.A.Inventors: Gary O. Maupin, Marc C. Dolan, Patrick D. Lowder
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Patent number: 7101827Abstract: Herbicidal compositions are described that comprise active substances from the group of the benzoylcyclohexanediones and also safeners. These herbicidal composition are especially suitable for use against weed plants in crop plant cultures.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbHInventors: Frank Ziemer, Andreas van Almsick, Lothar Willms, Thomas Auler, Hermann Bieringer, Erwin Hacker, Christopher Rosinger
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Patent number: 7056863Abstract: Herbicidal compositions comprising A) at least one compound from the group of the hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase inhibitors and B) at least one compound from the group B-a) herbicides which are selectively active in cereals against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants, B-b) herbicides which are selectively active in corn against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants, B-c) herbicides which are selectively active in rice against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants, B-d) herbicides which are nonselectively active in land which is not under cultivation and/or selectively active in transgenic crops against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants are described. The activity of these compositions is superior to that of the herbicides applied on their own.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2000Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbHInventors: Hermann Bieringer, Andreas van Almsick, Erwin Hacker, Lothar Willms
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Patent number: 7026477Abstract: The invention relates to a preparation process for a compound (I) or a salt thereof, in which Q, X*, Y, Z, R, R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in claim 1, which comprises a) ammonolyzing a comp. (II) in which Hal=halogen atom to give (III), pref. (a1) carrying out the reaction in an organic solvent mixture (org. solv. mixture) comprising (1) opt. halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons and (2) polar aprotic solvents, in a weight ratio of solv. (1): solv. (2) of 20:1 to 1:1, (b) phosgenating the comp. (III) with phenylsulfonyl isocyanate of the formula (IV), pref. (b1) in the case X*=halogen, carrying out the reaction with phosgene in an org. solv. in the presence of isocyanates R?-NCO as catalyst, where R?=(subst.) hydrocarbon, with or without addition of an amine base, (c) reacting the resulting compound (IV) in org. solv. with the aminoheterocycle H2N-Het (Het=heterocycle as in (I)) to give the comp. (I) or a salt thereof, pref. (c1) carrying out the reaction in a solv. mixture of opt. halogenated arom.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2000Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbHInventors: Jan Vermehren, Ernst Schmidt, Mark James Ford, Richard W. G. Foster, Ian A. Bourne
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Publication number: 20060040995Abstract: The invention concerns a method for preparing compounds of general formula (I) wherein: n, Q1, Q2, X1, X2, Y and Z are as defined in the description.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2001Publication date: February 23, 2006Applicants: Aventis CropScience, S.A., Aventis Pharma, S.A.Inventors: Eric Bacque, Jean-Pierre Vors, Francisco Nieto-Roman, Alain Villier, Jean-Claude Barriere, William Barriere, Nathalie Barriere
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Patent number: 7002011Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof are suitable for preparing active substances from the from the class of the aminotriazines of the formula (IV), for example herbicidal active substances. The compounds (I) can be prepared by chlorinating compounds of the formula (II) where, in the formulae, R1, R2, R3 and X are as defined in claim 1 and A and R have the meaning required in the active substances to be prepared, and they can be reacted with amines of the formula A—NH—R to give the active substances.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1999Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbHInventors: Jürgen Zindel, Jens Hollander, Klemens Minn, Lothar Willms
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Patent number: 6992099Abstract: A method of controlling parasites in or on an animal comprising administering to the animal a parasiticidally effective, substantially non-emetic 1-arylpyrazole.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2003Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Aventis Cropscience S.A.Inventors: Scot Kevin Huber, David Teh-Wei Chou, Stefan Schnatterer, Henricus Maria Martinus Bastiaans
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Publication number: 20060020013Abstract: A method of controlling parasites in or on an animal comprising administering to the animal a parasiticidally effective, substantially non-emetic 1-arylpyrazole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Applicant: Aventis CropScience S.A.Inventors: Scot Huber, David Chou, Stefan Schnatterer, Henricus Bastiaans
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Patent number: 6939882Abstract: Use of compounds of general formula (I) or salts thereof as phytopathogenic fungicides wherein the various radicals and substituents are as defined in the description, pesticidal compositions containing them and method for combatting pests which comprises applying these.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2000Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Aventis Cropsciences GmbHInventors: Tracey Cooke, David Hardy, Brian Anthony Moloney, Mary Josephine O'Mahony, Michael George Pettett, Gita Patel, Stefan Schnatterer
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Patent number: 6939831Abstract: The invention concerns pesticide and/or insecticide and/or plant growth regulating compositions comprising specific dendrimers, said compositions being, in particular, useable for agriculture and/or public health or domestic hygiene; the invention also concerns methods for treating and/or protecting crops and/or for public health and domestic hygiene using said compositions. The invention further concerns specific dendrimers.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2000Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Aventis Cropscience S.A.Inventors: Anne-Marie Caminade, Fabienne Gauffre-Guirardel, Jean-Pierre Majoral, Christelle Marmillon
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Patent number: 6936444Abstract: The patent application describes a process for the enzymatic chiral synthesis of L-phosphinothricin by transamination from its corresponding keto acid PPO with aspartate as amino donor. It is possible by a suitable reaction procedure to achieve a quantitative conversion on use of approximately equimolar amounts of amino donor and acceptor with complete consumption of the donor amino acid aspartate. The use of thermally stable transaminases makes a higher reaction rate and correspondingly large space/time yields possible.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2000Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbHInventor: Klaus Bartsch
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Patent number: 6916481Abstract: The invention relates to an active substance vector multiparticulate system and to the production and use thereof. The object of the invention is an active-substance vector multiparticulate system comprising one or several active substances included in a hydrophilic organic matrix comprising at least one hydrosoluble and/or hydrodispersable anionic polymer which is insolubilized by a metallic cation. The invention can be specifically used in the food industry, detergents and agrochemistry.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2000Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignees: Aventis CropScienceInventors: Christian Prud'Homme, Etienne Fleury, Jean-Paul Michalon, Robert Zerrouk
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Patent number: 6916782Abstract: The invention concerns heliomicine, A DNA sequence coding for heliomicine, a vector containing it for transfroming a host organism and the transformation method. The invention concerns heliomicine as a medicine in particular for treating fungal infections. More particularly, it concerns the transformation of plant cells and plants, the heliomicine produced by the transformed plants ensuring their resistance to diseases, in particular diseases of fungal origin.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1999Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: Aventis Cropscience S.A.Inventors: Mireille Lamberty, Philippe Bulet, Gary Brookhart, Jules Hoffman
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Patent number: 6884903Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the formula (I) The compound according to the invention is suitable for the preparation of herbicidal active substances such as sulfonylureas.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2003Date of Patent: April 26, 2005Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbHInventors: Klaus Lorenz, Hans-Joachim Ressel, Lothar Willms
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Patent number: 6884757Abstract: Herbicidal compositions are described that comprise active substances from the group of the benzoylcyclohexanediones and also safeners. These herbicidal compositions are especially suitable for use against weed plants in crop plant cultures.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2002Date of Patent: April 26, 2005Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbHInventors: Frank Ziemer, Andreas van Almsick, Lothar Willms, Thomas Auler, Hermann Bieringer, Erwin Hacker, Christopher Rosinger