Patents by Inventor Matthias Witschel

Matthias Witschel 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: 20190269133
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the pyrimidine compounds of formula (I), or their agriculturally acceptable salts or derivatives as herbicides, wherein the variables are defined according to the description, use of pyrimidine compounds of formula (I) as herbicide, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, i.e. for controlling harmful plants, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one pyrimidine compounds of the formula (I) to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Florian VOGT, Matthias WITSCHEL, Tobias SEISER, Veronica LOPEZ CARRILLO, Thomas SEITZ, Gerd KRAEMER, Trevor William NEWTON, Doreen SCHACHTSCHABEL, Klaus KREUZ, Klaus REINHARD
  • Patent number: 10392630
    Abstract: The invention refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated Alopecurus PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants. The present invention further refers to a method for controlling weeds at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated Alopecurus PPO enzyme which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Thomas Mietzner, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Patent number: 10375959
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a herbicidal combination which comprises: a) a herbicide A which is 2-chloro-5-[3,6-dihydro-3-methyl-2,6-dioxo-4-(trifluoromethyl)-1-(2H)-pyrimidinyl]-4-fluoro-N-[[methyl-(1-methylethyl)-amino]sulfonyl]benzamide, b) a single herbicide B selected from sulfentrazone, flumioxazin, dicamba and their salts and esters, and c) at least one herbicide C different from herbicides A and B which is selected from C.1) herbicides of the group of acetolactate synthase inhibitors, C.2) herbicides of the group of protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors, C.3) herbicides of the group of synthetic auxins, C.4) herbicides of the group of microtubule inhibitors, C.5) herbicides of the group of acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitors, C.6) herbicides of the group of photosystem II inhibitors, C.7) herbicides of the group of pigment synthesis inhibitors, and C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Agro B.V.
    Inventors: Dario Massa, Richard Evans, Tobias Seiser, Matthias Witschel, Rex Liebl, Alexandre Frateschi
  • Publication number: 20190225594
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the pyrimidine compounds of formula (I), or their agriculturally acceptable salts or derivatives as herbicides, wherein the variables are defined according to the description, use of pyrimidine compounds of formula (I) as herbicide, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, i.e. for controlling harmful plants, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one pyrimidine compounds of the formula (I) to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Florian VOGT, Matthias WITSCHEL, Veronica LOPEZ CARRILLO, Tobias SEISER, Thomas SEITZ, Gerd KRAEMER, Klaus REINHARD, Trevor William NEWTON, Doreen SCHACHTSCHABEL, Kristin HANZLIK
  • Patent number: 10334851
    Abstract: The invention relates to isoxazolo[5,4-b]pyridine compounds of formula I, to the agriculturally useful salts of isoxazolo[5,4-b]pyridine compounds of formula I, and to their use as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Julia Major, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Richard Roger Evans, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Dschun Song, Anja Simon, Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tao Qu, Frank Stelzer, Helmut Kraus, Thomas Seitz, Andree van der Kloet, Ruediger Reingruber
  • Patent number: 10308953
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Thomas Mietzner, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Publication number: 20190159453
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of pyrimidine compounds of formula (I), or their agriculturally acceptable salts or derivatives as herbicides, wherein the variables are defined according to the description, specific pyrimidine compounds of formula (I), compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, i.e. for controlling harmful plants, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one pyrimidine compounds of the formula (I) to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Florian VOGT, Matthias WITSCHEL, Tobias SEISER, Veronica LOPEZ CARRILLO, Thomas SEITZ, Gerd KRAEMER, Klaus KREUZ, Trevor William NEWTON, Klaus REINHARD, Doreen SCHACHTSCHABEL
  • Publication number: 20190161478
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tobias Seiser, Jill Marie Paulik, Matthias Witschel
  • Publication number: 20190161451
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the pyrimidine compounds of formula (I), or their agriculturally acceptable salts or derivatives as herbicides, wherein the variables are defined according to the description, use of pyrimidine compounds of formula (I) as herbicides, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, i.e. for controlling harmful plants, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one pyrimidine compound of the formula (I) to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Florian VOGT, Matthias WITSCHEL, Tobias SEISER, Veronica LOPEZ CARRILLO, Thomas SEITZ, Gerd KRAEMER, Trevor William NEWTON, Klaus REINHARD
  • Patent number: 10221137
    Abstract: The present invention relates to phenylpyridines of formula (I) wherein the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the phenylpyridines of the formula (I), compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, i.e. for controlling harmful plants, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one phenylpyridine of the formula (I) to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Witschel, Tobias Seiser, Manuel Johannes, Dario Massa, Trevor William Newton, Richard Evans, Raphael Aponte
  • Publication number: 20190062778
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Jens Lerchl, Stefan Tresch, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Matthias Witschel, Raphael Aponte, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Publication number: 20190002911
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a benzoxazinone-derivative herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Patent number: 10167297
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substituted pyridine compound of the formula I or an agriculturally suitable salt or N-oxide thereof, wherein the variables in the formula I are defined as in the description. Substituted pyridine compounds of formula I are useful as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Gilbert Besong, Matthias Witschel, Thomas Seitz, Liliana Parra Rapado, Richard Evans, Kristin Hanzlik, Gerd Kraemer, Michael Rack
  • Publication number: 20180371488
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Thomas Mietzner, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Patent number: 10100329
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising mutated PPO enzymes having a substitution at a position corresponding to position Leu397 of SEQ ID NO:2 and an amino acid substitution at a position corresponding to position Phe420 of SEQ ID NO:2, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Jens Lerchl, Stefan Tresch, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Matthias Witschel, Raphael Aponte, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Patent number: 10087460
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Thomas Mietzner, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Publication number: 20180271094
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of phenylpyrimidines of formula (I) or their agriculturally acceptable salts or derivatives as herbicides, wherein the variables are defined according to the description, specific phenylpyrimidines of formula (I), processes and intermediates for preparing the phenylpyrimidines of the formula (I), compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, i.e. for controlling harmful plants, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one phenylpyrimidine of the formula (I) to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Florian VOGT, Matthias WITSCHEL, Thomas SEITZ, Anna Aleksandra MICHROWSKA-PIANOWSKA, Liliana PARRA RAPADO, Richard EVANS, Gerd KRAEMER, Trevor William NEWTON, Kristin HANZLIK, Doreen SCHACHTSCHABEL, Klaus KREUZ
  • Patent number: 10041087
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a benzoxazinone-derivative herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Patent number: 10023590
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substituted pyridine compound of the formula I or an agriculturally suitable salt or N-oxide thereof, wherein the variables in the formula I are defined as in the description. Substituted pyridine compounds of formula I are useful as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Gilbert Besong, Matthias Witschel, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Thomas Seitz, Liliana Parra Rapado, Trevor William Newton, Gerd Kraemer, Richard Roger Evans, Michael Rack
  • Publication number: 20180064111
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a herbicidal combination which comprises: a) a herbicide A which is 2-chloro-5-[3,6-dihydro-3-methyl-2,6-dioxo-4-(trifluoromethyl)-1-(2H)-pyrimidinyl]-4-fluoro-N-[[methyl-(1-methylethyl)-amino]sulfonyl]benzamide, b) a single herbicide B selected from sulfentrazone, flumioxazin, dicamba and their salts and esters, and c) at least one herbicide C different from herbicides A and B which is selected from C.1) herbicides of the group of acetolactate synthase inhibitors, C.2) herbicides of the group of protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors, C.3) herbicides of the group of synthetic auxins, C.4) herbicides of the group of microtubule inhibitors, C.5) herbicides of the group of acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitors, C.6) herbicides of the group of photosystem II inhibitors, C.7) herbicides of the group of pigment synthesis inhibitors, and C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: BASF Agro B.V.
    Inventors: Dario MASSA, Richard EVANS, Tobias SEISER, Matthias WITSCHEL, Rex LIEBL, Alexandre FRATESCHI