Patents Examined by S. Mark Clardy
  • Patent number: 7109221
    Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures comprise as active components a) an amide compound of the formula I A-CO—NR1R2I ?in which A, R1 and R2 are as defined in the description, and b) dimethomorph or flumetover, and/or c) a valinamide of the formula III ?in which R13 is C3–C4-alkyl and R14 is naphthyl or phenyl, where the phenyl radical is substituted in the 4-position by a halogen atom, a C1–C4-alkyl or C1–C4-alkoxy group, and/or d) benalaxyl, ofurace, metalaxyl, furalaxyl or oxydixyl, and/or e) 1-(2-cyano-2-methoxyiminoacetyl)-3-ethylurea in a synergistically effective amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Schelberger, Maria Scherer, Karl Eicken, Manfred Hampel, Eberhard Ammermann, Gisela Lorenz, Siegfried Strathmann
  • Patent number: 7105470
    Abstract: 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, (A3) imidazolinones such as imazethapyr, imazapyr, imazaquin, imazamox or their salts and (A4) herbicidal azoles from the group of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors (PPO inhibitors) and (B) one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds consisting of (B0) one or more structurally different herbicides from the above-mentioned group (A) and/or (B1) foliar- and/or soil-acting herbicides (residual action) which are effective selectively in soybeans against monocotyledonous and predominantly dicotyledonous harmful plants or (B2) herbicides which are effective selectively in soybeans against dicotyledonous harmful plants, or (B3) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides which are effective selectively in soybeans against monocotyledonous harmf
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Hoechst Schering AgrEvo GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Hacker, Hermann Bieringer, Lothar Willms
  • Patent number: 7101828
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of enhancing the health of plant or seed in order to protect a plant or a seed from a stress-related injury by treating a plant with a composition containing at least one lysophospholipid. The present invention further relates to a method of enhancing or accelerating the recovery of an injured plant by treating such injured plant with a composition containing at least one lysophospholipid. Finally, the present invention relates to a method of enhancing the germination of seeds and seedling vigour by treating seeds with a composition containing at least one lysophospholipid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jiwan P. Palta, Karim Farag
  • Patent number: 7101827
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Ziemer, Andreas van Almsick, Lothar Willms, Thomas Auler, Hermann Bieringer, Erwin Hacker, Christopher Rosinger
  • Patent number: 7098170
    Abstract: A method of improving the yield and vigor of an agronomic plant involves treating plants such as soybeans and corn and/or their propagation material with a composition that includes an active agent, such as a diazole fungicide, a triazole fungicide, or a strobilurin-type fungicide, which has the capacity to improve the yield and/or the vigor of the plant in the absence of pest pressure by fungal plant pathogens. Formulations that contain a diazole fungicide, a triazole fungicide, or a strobilurin-type fungicide, and plants and plant propagation material, such as seeds, which have been treated by the novel method are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jawed Asrar, Ernest F. Sanders, Yiwei Ding
  • Patent number: 7098169
    Abstract: Herbicide safener combiantions consisting of A) an effective amount of a compound of the formula (1) or a salt thereof, in which R1 is phenyl which is unsubstituted or substituted, R2 is (C1–C6)alkyl, (C3–C6)cycloalkyl or phenyl, each of the 3 last-mentioned radicals is unsubstituted or substituted, R3 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 18 C-atoms which is unsubstituted or substituted, and B) a herbicide selected form the group consisting of and florasulam, chloransulam, dicamba, diflufenzopyr; triclopyr, fluroxypyr, metribuzin, carfentrazone-ethyl, S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Ziemer, Lothar Willms, Christopher Rosinger, Erwin Hacker, Hermann Bieringer, Ken Pallett
  • Patent number: 7094734
    Abstract: This invention provides a granular herbicide for direct foliage application to undesirable plants, which contains a water soluble, non-selective foliage-application type herbicidally active compound as the active ingredient, having an average granule size within a range of 0.21–1 mm and an elution ratio of said active ingredient of at least 20% when 20 mg of the granular herbicide is treated with a circular filter paper sheet of 55 mm in diameter which is impregnated with 50 ?l of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Kyoyu Agri Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ushiguchi, Yohichi Hori, Katsuhiro Takahashi, Shinichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7094735
    Abstract: Described are herbicide compositions, in particular, herbicide compositions that are prepared from microemulsions containing herbicide compound in acid form, and methods of their preparation and use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Platte Chemical Co.
    Inventors: Anthony E. Herold, Richard A. Beardmore, Scott K. Parrish
  • Patent number: 7087552
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for creating, manipulating, modifying and enhancing floral scent component to plants and cut flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignees: Ball Horticultural Company, Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Alan Blowers, Natalia Dudareva
  • Patent number: 7087553
    Abstract: A treatment for eliminating unwanted organisms in agriculture, the treatment comprising a first component comprising allyl isothiocyanate emulsified in water, and a second component comprising a solution of phosphorus and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Inventor: Fredricka Riordan
  • Patent number: 7084138
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel active compound combinations having very good insecticidal and acaricidal properties and containing (a) cyclic ketoenols having the formula in which the groups W, X, Y, Z, A, B, D, and G have the meanings given in the disclosure, and (b) the active compounds (1) to (22) listed in the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Reiner Fischer, Christoph Erdelen
  • Patent number: 7074833
    Abstract: A method for treating or preventing a disorder or a condition by double inhibition of serotonin (5-HT) and noradrenaline (NA) reuptake in a subject in need thereof, while limiting the risks of cardiovascular disturbances and/or organ and/or tissue toxicity, comprising the step of administering to said subject a mixture of enantiomers of milnacipran enriched in the (1S,2R) enantiomer of milnacipran and/or of at least one of its metabolites, as well as their pharmaceutically-acceptable salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Pierre Fabre Medicament
    Inventors: Jean Deregnaucourt, Richard Grosse
  • Patent number: 7071146
    Abstract: A selectively herbicidal composition which comprises, besides customary inert formulation auxiliaries, as active ingredient a mixture of: a) a herbicidally active amount of a herbicide selected from the group consisting of the compounds of formula (Ia), and/or (Ib), in which R is hydrogen or fluorine and/or (Ic) or of a salt of the compounds of formulae (Ia) and/or (Ib) and/or (Ic), and b) a herbicidally antagonistically active amount of a compound of formula (IIa), of a compound of formula (IIb1), of a compound of formula (IIb2), of a compound of formula (IIc), of a compound of formula (IIe), of a compound of formula (IIf), or of a compound of formula (IIg), in which the substituents have the meanings given in claim 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventor: Jutta Glock
  • Patent number: 7071147
    Abstract: A process of controlling triazine-tolerant weeds by the application of a combination of mesotrione and a triazine to the locus of said weeds is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Peter Bernard Sutton, Rex Alan Witchert
  • Patent number: 7071188
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plant-protecting active ingredient mixtures having synergistically enhanced action and to a method of improving the growth of plants, comprising applying to the plants or the locus thereof at least three active ingredient components together. Specifically, a mixture of fludioxonil (I), metalaxyl (II) and a strobilurin fungicide (III) achieves markedly enhanced action against plant pathogens and is suitable for improving the growth of plants when applied to plants, parts of plants, seeds, or at their locus of growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventor: Clifford Watrin
  • Patent number: 7060657
    Abstract: A herbicide-safener combination, which comprises: (A) one or more herbicidal cyclohexanedione oxime (“dims”) or an agriculturally acceptable salt or metal complex thereof, selected from the group consisting of (A1) alloxydim, (A2) butroxydim, (A3) clefoxydim also known as BAS 625H, (A4) clethodim, (A5) cycloxydim, (A6) sethoxydim, (A7) tepraloxydim, and (A8) tralkoxydim. and (B) an antidotally effective amount of one or more compounds of formula (I) or a salt thereof: in which R1, R2, R3, R4 and n are as defined in the description, which is suitable for the selective control of harmful plants in crops of useful plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Hacker, Hermann Bieringer, Hans-Philipp Huff
  • Patent number: 7060659
    Abstract: There is provided an essentially non-aqueous homogeneous liquid herbicide composition comprising: a) a lipophilic solvent soluble complex comprising the reaction product of: i) not in excess of about 35% by weight of one or more lipophobic herbicides having an acidic moiety; and ii) not in excess of about 99% by weight of one or more tertiary dimethylamines of the structure (CH3)2N—R wherein R contains an alkyl group of at least 8 carbon atoms and may contain other chemical moieties and wherein is at least one mole equivalent of such amine to each mole of lipophobic herbicide; b) not in excess of about 60% by weight of one or more essentially non-aqueous polar solvents having low volatility; c) not in excess of about 90% by weight of one or more additional solvents selected from the group consisting of low to medium HLB surfactants; and d) not in excess of about 99% by weight of one or more lipophilic carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Victorian Chemicals International Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Robert William Killick, Andrew Robert Killick, Peter William Jones, Peter Ronald Wrigley, John David Morrison
  • Patent number: 7056864
    Abstract: A method for reducing pests in an object or area by applying to the object or area a pest reducing effective amount of halogen substituted ethanol (e.g., 2-iodoethanol, 2-bromoethanol, or mixtures thereof). The pests may be, for example, fungi, insects, nematodes, bacteria, weeds, or mixtures thereof. The object or area may be, for example, soil, structures, agricultural commodities, plants, or mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Erin Nichole Rosskopf, William H. Basinger, Husein Ahmad-Mousa Ajwa
  • Patent number: 7056863
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Bieringer, Andreas van Almsick, Erwin Hacker, Lothar Willms
  • Patent number: 7056862
    Abstract: The invention provides an agricultural chemical enhancer and an agricultural chemical composition which are safely used for crops without any phytotoxicity, have a potency enhancing action on various agricultural chemicals and promote the growth of a plant body to be intended to be grown. The invention relates to an agricultural chemical enhancer comprising at least one type selected from a specific alcohol compound, an ether compound and an ester compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Hayashi, Tadayuki Suzuki, Kazuhiko Kurita