Patents by Inventor Erwin Hacker

Erwin Hacker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20100016158
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of one or more compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof, wherein the groups R1 to R8 are defined as set forth herein, optionally in the presence of additional agrochemical active ingredients, for selective weed control on turf or lawn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Michael Kilian, Eckhard Rose, Erwin Hacker, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Klemens Minn, Donald Myers
  • Patent number: 7648945
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a herbicide combination comprising components (A) and (B), where (A) is one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8 and A are as defined in claim 1; and (B) is one or more herbicides different from herbicide (A), preferably from the group of compounds consisting of (B1) herbicides which can be employed selectively and which are effective mainly against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants, (B2) herbicides which can be employed selectively and which are effective mainly against dicotyledonous harmful plants and (B3) herbicides which can be employed selectively and which are effective mainly against monocotyledonous harmful plants, (B4) herbicides which can be employed non-selectively and which are effective against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants, for example for use in the non-selective field or in crops which are specifically tolerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Martin Hills, Erwin Hacker, Hansjörg Krähmer, Christian Waldraff, Hansjörg Dietrich, Klaus Trabold, Dieter Feucht, Klaus-Helmut Müller, Ulrich Philipp
  • Publication number: 20090227563
    Abstract: The present invention concerns boosting the activity of crop protection materials comprising active ingredients from the class of the phenyl-substituted cyclic ketoenols through the addition of ammonium salts and/or phosphonium salts or through the addition of ammonium salts and/or phosphonium salts and penetrants, the corresponding materials, processes for preparing them, and their use in crop protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Reiner Fischer, Stefan Lehr, Dieter Feucht, Udo Bickers, Hans Philipp Huff, Erwin Hacker, Rainer Süssmann
  • Patent number: 7579301
    Abstract: What is described are herbicidal compositions comprising herbicidal compounds of the formula I and a compound which acts as safener. In the formula I, the symbols R1 to R4 denote hydrogen, halogen, alkyl and haloalkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Monika H. Schmitt, Lothar Willms, Frank Ziemer, Christopher Rosinger, Hermann Bieringer, Philipp Huff, Erwin Hacker
  • Patent number: 7563749
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a herbicide-safener combination, comprising (A) one or more compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof as defined in the application and (B) one or more safeners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Martin Hills, Erwin Hacker, Hansjörg Krähmer, Chris Rosinger, Udo Bickers, Frank Ziemer, Christian Waldraff, Hansjörg Dietrich, Lothar Willms, Dieter Feucht, Klaus-Helmut Müller, Ulrich Philipp
  • Publication number: 20090156400
    Abstract: Herbicide combinations comprising an effective amount of components (A) and (B) have improved herbicidal action wherein (A) is one or more herbicides of the formula (I) or salts thereof in which R1 is (C1-C8)-alkyl, (C3-C4)-alkenyl, (C3-C4)-alkynyl, or (C1-C4)-alkyl which is mono- to tetrasubstituted by radicals selected from the group consisting of halogen and/or (C1-C2)-alkoxy, R2 is I or CH2NHSO2CH3, R3 is methyl or methoxy and Z is N or CH and (B) denotes one or more herbicides which act selectively in some monocotyledonous crops against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants, which herbicides are selected from the group of compounds consisting of flucarbazone, BAY MKH 6561 (procarbazone), florasulam, halosulfuron, tritosulfuron, picolinafen, cinidon-ethyl, mesotrione, metosulam, clopyralid, flufenacet, flumetsulam, flupoxam, prosulfocarb, flurtamone, aclonifen, hexazinone, asulam, diuron, ametryn, isoxaflutole, amicarbazone and trifloxysulfuron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Bieringer, Hans Philipp Huff, Erwin Hacker
  • Publication number: 20090118123
    Abstract: 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 monoc
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Erwin Hacker, Hermann Stuebler, Hermann Bieringer, Lothar Willms
  • Publication number: 20080287296
    Abstract: Herbicide combinations comprising an effective amount of components (A), (B) and (C) have improved herbicidal action: (A) one or more herbicides selected from the group of compounds of the formula (I) and salts thereof (B) one or more herbicides selected from the group of the compounds of the formula (II) and their salts (C) denotes one or more herbicides which act selectively in some monocotyledonous crops against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants, which herbicides are selected from the group of compounds consisting of (C1) flucarbazone (C2) procarbazone (C2) florasulam (C4) halosulfuron (C5) tritosulfuron (C6) picolinafen (C7) cinidon-ethyl (C8) mesotrione (C9) metosulam (C10) clopyralid (C11) flufenacet (C12) flumetsulam (C13) flupoxam (C14) prosulfocarb (C15) flurtamone (C16) aclonifen (C17) fenoxaprop (C18) isoproturon (C19) diclofop (C20) clodinafop (C21) chlortoluron (C22) methabenzthiazuron (C23) imazamethabenz (C24) tralkoxydim (C25) difenzoquat (C26) flamprop (C27)
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Erwin Hacker, Hermann Bieringer, Hans Philipp Huff
  • Publication number: 20080269052
    Abstract: According to the invention, compounds of the general formula (I) or salts thereof (pyridine-2-oxy-3-carboxamides), in which R1 is a (C1-C4)-haloalkyl radical can be employed as safeners, i.e. as agents for preventing or reducing phytotoxic effects of pesticides, preferably herbicides, on useful plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Christopher Rosinger, Frank Ziemer, Thomas Auler, Udo Bickers, Erwin Hacker
  • Publication number: 20080269059
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I), or salts thereof, in which R1 to R4 are as defined in formula (I) of claim 1 are suitable as useful-plant-protecting agents for reducing or preventing harmful effects of agrochemicals on the useful plants and their method of preparation are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Frank Ziemer, Lothar Willms, Christopher Rosinger, Thomas Auler, Erwin Hacker, Udo Bickers
  • Patent number: 7422998
    Abstract: 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 monocot
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Aventis CropScience GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Hacker, Hermann Stuebler, Hermann Bieringer, Lothar Willms
  • Publication number: 20080167188
    Abstract: The invention provides herbicide combinations comprising an effective amount of components (A) and (B), where component (A) is one or more of the ketoenols listed in the description and (B) is one or more herbicides from the group of the known herbicides also listed in the description. The invention also relates to the use of the combinations for controlling unwanted vegetation and to the corresponding method for controlling weeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2005
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Reiner Fischer, Dieter Feucht, Stefan Lehr, Hans Philipp Huff, Erwin Hacker, Guido Bojack
  • Publication number: 20080146446
    Abstract: Synergistic, crop plant-compatible herbicidal compositions comprising herbicides from the group of the benzoylpyrazoles What is described are herbicidal compositions comprising A) a compound from the group of the benzoylpyrazoles, B) at least one further herbicide and C) at least one safener as herbicides which are active against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants. Compared to the herbicides applied individually, these compositions have superior activity and are at the same time highly compatible with crop plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Philipp Huff, Erwin Hacker, Dieter Feucht
  • Publication number: 20080020932
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the new use of the compound 5-methoxy-4-methyl-2-[(4-methoxycarbonyl-2-methylthien-3-yl)sulfonylaminocarbonyl]-2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazol-3-one of the formula (I) and/or of salts of the compound of the formula (I) for selectively controlling weeds of the genus Apera in crops of useful plants, and also to the corresponding agricultural method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2005
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Markus Dollinger, Frederic Top, Ernst Gesing, Erwin Hacker
  • Publication number: 20080004180
    Abstract: The invention relates to herbicidal compositions comprising an effective amount of an active ingredient combination composed of (a) at least one substituted thien-3-ylsulfonylamino(thio)carbonyltriazolin(thi)one of the formula (I) in which R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the description, or salts of the compounds of the formula (I) and (b) one or more compounds from a second group of herbicides which comprises selected 4-HPPD inhibitors, and, if desired, additionally (c) a crop plant tolerance promoter compound. The invention further relates to the use of the compositions for controlling unwanted plant growth and to a process for producing the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2005
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Markus Dollinger, Hans-Joachim Santel, Rudolf Gesing, Erwin Hacker
  • Publication number: 20070124839
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of finding compounds which increase the tolerance of plants to abiotic stress factors acting on this plant, such as, for example, temperature (such as chill, frost or heat), water (such as dryness, drought or anoxia), or the chemical load (such as lack of or excess of mineral salts, heavy metals, gaseous noxious substances) by increasing the expression of plant-endogenous proteins, and to the use of these compounds for increasing the tolerance in plants to abiotic stress factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience GmbH
    Inventors: Arno Schulz, Klaus Bartsch, Hansjorg Krahmer, Martin Hills, Erwin Hacker, Chris Rosinger
  • Publication number: 20070066481
    Abstract: What is described are herbicidal compositions comprising herbicidal compounds of the formula (I) and a compound of the formula (II) which acts as a safener. In the formulae (I) and (II), the symbols R1 to R17 denote hydrogen, halogen, nitro and various organic radicals. These herbicidal compositions have a particularly high compatibility with useful plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Ziemer, Hermann Bieringer, Christopher Rosinger, Erwin Hacker, Lothar Willms
  • Publication number: 20070015662
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a herbicide/safener combination comprising (A) one or more compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof in which R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are different radicals, n is 1 or 2, X is H or (C1-C4)-alkyl, and Y is H; and (B) one or more safeners, and also to the use thereof for controlling harmful plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience GmbH
    Inventors: Chris Rosinger, Hansjorg Dietrich, Hendrik Helmke, Wolfgang Schaper, Paul Evans, Erwin Hacker
  • Publication number: 20070010399
    Abstract: Crop plant-compatible herbicidal compositions comprising herbicides and safeners Crop plant-compatible herbicidal compositions comprising A) a compound from the group of the acylsulfamoylbenzamides of the formula (I), ?in which R1, R2, R3 and R4 are hydrogen, chlorine or various organic radicals, B) at least one herbicide and C) if appropriate a fungicide and/or insecticide are described as herbicides which are active against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants. Compared to the herbicides used on their own, these compositions have better compatibility with crop plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher Rosinger, Paul Evans, Erwin Hacker
  • Publication number: 20060276342
    Abstract: The present invention relates to herbicidal compositions comprising a) one or more herbicidally active compounds from the group of the dioxazinepyridylsulfonylureas, and b) one or more auxiliaries from the group of the fatty esters, fertilizers and surfactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE GMBH
    Inventors: Hansjorg Krahmer, Martin Hills, Klaus Trabold, Erwin Hacker