September 19, 2011
Monsanto receives patent for treating transgenic corn seed
The Indian Patent Office issued patent number 214292 on March 31, 2008, to Monsanto Technology LLC for a method in treating a transgenic corn seed.
Monsanto Technology LLC filed patent application number 471/CHENP/2003 on April 3, 2003 for a method in treating a transgenic corn seed. The inventors of the patent are Asrar Jawed, Kohn Frank C and Sanders Ernest F.
The International classification number is A01N51/00.
The PCT International application number of the patent is PCT/US2001/030792 and the application was filed on October 2, 2001.
According to the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, "The invention relates to a method for treating a transgenic corn seed for protection of the plant that grows from the seed against feeding damage by one or more insect pests, the method providing a seed for a transgenic corn plant high seed, comprises a gene that encodes an insecticidal protein and treating the seed with a chloronicotinyl insecticide in an amount from 200-500 grams of active ingredient per 100 kilogrammes of the seed, or, providing a seed for the transgenic corn plant of which seed comprises a gene that encodes a Cry3 insecticidal protein; and eating the seed with a pyrethrin or synthetic pyrethroid insecticide."