Patents by Inventor Thomas Ehrhardt
Thomas Ehrhardt 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).
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Patent number: 7727753Abstract: The present invention relates to a DNA encoding a polypeptide with dihydroorotase (EC 3.5.2.3) activity. Also, the invention relates to the use of this nucleic acid for the generation of an assay system.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Ehrhardt, Jens Lerchl, Marc Stitt Nigel, Rita Zrenner, Michael Schroeder
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Publication number: 20100099568Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroaroyl-substituted serinamides of the formula (I) in which the variables A and R1 to R6 are as defined in the description, and to their agriculturally useful salts, to processes and intermediates for their preparation, and to the use of these compounds or of the compositions comprising these compounds for controlling unwanted plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, Dschun Song, Eike Hupe, Trevor William Newton, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Frank Stelzer, Andrea Vescovi, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Klaus Grossmann, Thomas Ehrhardt
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Patent number: 7662603Abstract: The present invention relates to serine hydroxymethyltransferase (E.C. 2.1.2.1) as novel target for herbicides, and to nucleic acid sequences encoding a polypeptide with the biological activity of a serine hydroxymethyltransferase, which, when not present, bring about growth retardation symptoms and chlorotic leaves, comprising the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID No:3, and functional equivalents of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence or the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID NO:7 and functional equivalents of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences, of functional analogs of the SEQ ID NO:3 or SEQ ID NO:7 or of polypeptides encoded by one of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences in a method for identifying herbicidally active compounds which inhibit serine hydroxymethyltransferases, and to the use of these compounds which have been identified by the method as herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2007Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Uwe Sonnewald, Frederik Boernke, Kirsten Deist, Marc Stitt Nigel, Wolfgang Lein, Thomas Ehrhardt, Andreas Reindl, Ralf-Michael Schmidt, Annette Freund
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Publication number: 20090215628Abstract: The present invention relates to benzoyl-substituted alanines of the formula I in which the variables R1 to R13 are as defined in the description, and to agriculturally useful salts thereof, to processes and intermediates for their preparation, and to the use of these compounds or of compositions comprising these compounds for controlling unwanted plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2007Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, Cyrill Zagar, Eike Hupe, Toralf Kühn, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Frank Stelzer, Andrea Vescovi, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Klaus Grossmann, Thomas Ehrhardt
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Publication number: 20090186766Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroaroyl-substituted alanines of the formula I in which the variables A and R1 to R8 are as defined in the description, and to their agriculturally useful salts, to processes and intermediates for their preparation, and to the use of these compounds or of compositions comprising these compounds for controlling unwanted plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2007Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, Cyrill Zagar, Eike Hupe, Toralf Kühn, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Frank Stelzer, Andrea Vescovi, Michael Rack, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Klaus Grossmann, Thomas Ehrhardt
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Publication number: 20090156553Abstract: The invention relates to the use of piperazine compounds of formula (I) or the agriculturally useful salts of piperazine compounds of formula (I) as herbicides, the variables in formula (I) being defined as cited in the claims and the description.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2006Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Eike Hupe, Cyrill Zagar, Matthias Witschel, Toralf Kuhn, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Frank Stelzer, Andrea Vescovi, Michael Puhl, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Klaus Grossmann, Thomas Ehrhardt, Michael Rack
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Publication number: 20090137396Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of piperazine compounds of the formula I or of the agriculturally useful salts of piperazine compounds of the formula I as herbicides, where in formula I the variables are as defined in the claims and the description. Moreover, the invention relates to compositions comprising, in addition to auxiliaries customary for formulating crop protection agents, piperazine compounds of the formula I or agriculturally useful salts of I, and to a process for preparing these compositions. Furthermore, the invention relates to certain piperazine compounds of the formula I, a process for preparing piperazine compounds of the formula I and a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises treating plants, their seeds and/or their habitat with at least one piperazine compound of the formula I.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2007Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Eike Hupe, Cyrill Zagar, Matthias Witschel, Toralf Kuehn, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Frank Stelzer, Andrea Vescovi, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Klaus Grossmann, Thomas Ehrhardt
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Publication number: 20090054240Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroaroyl-substituted alanines of the formula I in which the variables A and R1 to R7 are as defined in the description, and to their agriculturally useful salts, to processes and intermediates for their preparation, and to the use of these compounds or of compositions comprising these compounds for controlling unwanted plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, Cyrill Zagar, Eike Hupe, Toralf Kuhn, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Frank Stelzer, Andrea Vescovi, Michael Rack, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Klaus Grossmann, Thomas Ehrhardt
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Publication number: 20090036311Abstract: The present invention relates to benzoyl-substituted alanines of the formula I in which the variables R1 to R12 are as defined in the description, and to their agriculturally useful salts, to processes and intermediates for their preparation, and to the use of these compounds or of compositions comprising these compounds for controlling unwanted plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2007Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, Cyrill Zagar, Eike Hupe, Toralf Kuhn, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Frank Stelzer, Andrea Vescovi, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Klaus Grossmann, Thomas Ehrhardt
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Publication number: 20080249292Abstract: The present invention relates to a DNA encoding a polypeptide with dihydroorotase (EC 3.5.2.3) activity. Also, the invention relates to the use of this nucleic acid for the generation of an assay system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Inventors: Thomas EHRHARDT, Jens Lerchl, Marc Stitt Nigel, Rita Zrenner, Michael Schroeder
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Publication number: 20080234945Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for analyzing at least one test sample, wherein said test sample comprises at least one compound, said method comprising the steps of: a) providing at least one test sample comprising at least one compound; b) determining said at least one compound in said test sample whereby raw results are generated; and c) analyzing the raw results obtained in step b), wherein the analysis of said at least one test sample is accompanied by an analysis of at least one reference sample; and wherein the test sample and the reference sample are analyzed in an identical sequence in each step of the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2006Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: METANOMICS GMBHInventors: Tilmann B. Walk, Ralf Looser, Bianca Bethan, Michael Manfred Herold, Beate Kamlage, Oliver Schmitz, Jan C Wiemer, Alexandre Prokoudine, Bennard van Ravenzwaay, Werner Mellert, Georgia Coelho Palermo Cunba, Thomas Ehrhardt, Gerhard Krennrich
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Publication number: 20080200338Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroaroyl-substituted serineamides of the formula I in which the variables A and R1 to R6 are as defined in the description, and to their agriculturally useful salts, to processes and intermediates for their preparation, and to the use of these compounds or of the compositions comprising these compounds for controlling unwanted plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Witschel, Cyrill Zagar, Eike Hupe, Toralf Kuhn, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Frank Stelzer, Andrea Vescovi, Michael Rack, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Klaus Grossmann, Thomas Ehrhardt
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Publication number: 20080200542Abstract: The present invention relates to benzoyl-substituted serineamides of the formula I in which the variables R1 to R11 are as defined in the description, and to their agriculturally useful salts, to processes and intermediates for their preparation, and to the use of these compounds or of compositions comprising these compounds for controlling unwanted plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Witschel, Cyrill Zagar, Eike Hupe, Toralf Kuhn, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Frank Stelzer, Andrea Vescovi, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Klaus Grossmann, Thomas Ehrhardt
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Publication number: 20080155716Abstract: The present invention relates to serine hydroxymethyltransferase (E.C. 2.1.2.1) as novel target for herbicides, and to nucleic acid sequences encoding a polypeptide with the biological activity of a serine hydroxymethyltransferase, which, when not present, bring about growth retardation symptoms and chlorotic leaves, comprising the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID No:3, and functional equivalents of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence or the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID NO:7 and functional equivalents of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences, of functional analogs of the SEQ ID NO:3 or SEQ ID NO:7 or of polypeptides encoded by one of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences in a method for identifying herbicidally active compounds which inhibit serine hydroxymethyltransferases, and to the use of these compounds which have been identified by the method as herbicides.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Uwe SONNEWALD, Frederik BORNKE, Kirsten DEIST, Marc Stitt NIGEL, Wolfgang LEIN, Thomas EHRHARDT, Andreas REINDL, Ralf-Michael SCHMIDT, Annette FREUND
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Patent number: 7374899Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a polypeptide with the biological activity of a sucrose-6-phosphate phosphatase which, if not present, brings about growth retardation symptoms and chlorotic leaves and which is encoded by the nucleic acid sequences SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO:5 or by a functional equivalent of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:3 or SEQ ID NO:5 as target for herbicides. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of the abovementioned polypeptides in a method for identifying herbicidal or growth-regulatory compounds which inhibit sucrose-6-phosphate phosphatase. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of these compounds which have been identified via the method as herbicides or growth regulators.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2003Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Ehrhardt, Uwe Sonnewald, Frederik Börnke, Shuai Chen
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Publication number: 20080103049Abstract: The present invention relates to benzoyl-substituted serineamides of the formula I in which the variables Het and R1 to R10 are as defined in the description, and to their agriculturally useful salts, to processes and intermediates for their preparation, and to the use of these compounds or of the compositions comprising these compounds for controlling unwanted plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2005Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: BSDG AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Witschel, Frank Stelzer, Toralf Kuhn, Liliana Parra Rapado, Eike Hupe, Cyrill Zagar, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Thomas Ehrhardt
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Patent number: 7320877Abstract: The present invention relates to a DNA encoding a polypeptide with dihydroorotase (EC 3.5.2.3) activity. Also, the invention relates to the use of this nucleic acid for the generation of an assay system.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2000Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Ehrhardt, Jens Lerchl, Marc Stitt Nigel, Rita Zrenner, Michael Schroeder
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Patent number: 7319013Abstract: The present invention relates to serine hydroxymethyltransferase (E.C. 2.1.2.1) as novel target for herbicides, and to nucleic acid sequences encoding a polypeptide with the biological activity of a serine hydroxymethyltransferase, which, when not present, bring about growth retardation symptoms and chlorotic leaves, comprising the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID No:3, and functional equivalents of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence or the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID NO:7 and functional equivalents of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences, of functional analogs of the SEQ ID NO:3 or SEQ ID NO:7 or of polypeptides encoded by one of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences in a method for identifying herbicidally active compounds which inhibit serine hydroxymethyltransferases, and to the use of these compounds which have been identified by the method as herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Uwe Sonnewald, Frederik Börnke, Kirsten Deist, Marc Stitt Nigel, Wolfgang Lein, Thomas Ehrhardt, Andreas Reindl, Ralf-Michael Schmidt, Annette Freund
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Patent number: 7300767Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of DNA sequences of plant origin encoding a polypeptide with aspartate carbamyltransferase (E.C. 2.1.3.2) activity for generating an assay system for finding aspartate carbamyltransferase inhibitors. For the first time, it was shown, with the aid of antisense technology, that aspartate carbamyltransferase constitutes a herbicidal target.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2001Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Ehrhardt, Jens Lerchl, Marc Stitt Nigel, Rita Zrenner, Tina Maria Ritter
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Publication number: 20070270312Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroaroyl-substituted serinamides of the formula I in which the variables A, Het and R1 to R5 are as defined in the description, and to their agriculturally useful salts, to processes and intermediates for their preparation, and to the use of these compounds or of the compositions comprising these compounds for controlling unwanted plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2005Publication date: November 22, 2007Inventors: Matthias Witschel, Frank Stelzer, Toralf Kuhn, Liliana Rapado, Michael Rack, Eike Hupe, Cyrill Zagar, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich, Thomas Ehrhardt