Further to the survey conducted at the end of last year, we have modified the monthly patent monitoring service to incorporate comments, needs and requests received from readers. Consequently, we have added the “chemistry” column to the applications table and separated the EU/US from the WO/PCT applications. The granted patents table remains the same at the bottom of the review.
January 2012 marks the first of the altered monthly patent watch reviews. Please do email the editor of Agrow Intelligence if you have any queries or questions about this new structure.
N.B. Patent tables are classified by assignee name.

EU/US applications

Agrow Intelligence has looked at 42 EU/US patent applications this month from seven companies/organisations. Bayer CropScience and BASF shared the lead with 12 patent applications each. Particular activity was noticed with eight patents from BASF on fungicidal pyrazolo-pyridine compounds.
For the list of EU/US patent applications published, please click here .

WO/PCT applications

Agrow Intelligence has looked at 24 WO/ PCT patent applications this month from 11 companies/organisations. Bayer was in the lead with ten patents.
For the list of WO/PCT patent applications published, please click here .

Granted Patents

There were 27 granted patents in January 2012. The patent with the earliest application date was a Bayer patent on “fungicidal active substance combinations containing trifloxystrobin”. The most recent patent was an Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha patent on insecticidal “acid amide derivatives, process for their production and pesticides containing them”.
For the list of granted patents published, please click here .