A financial claim and class action application against Makhteshim-Agan Industries’ (MAI) chemical manufacturing plant has been “brought to its attention”. The reported claim is for damages allegedly caused by smell and noise, and comes from residents of Moshav Nir Galim and an inhabitant of Ashdod. The claim and application has yet to be served to MAI’s subsidiary, Agan Chemical Manufacturers. ”In the event that the claim is approved as a class action, the claimants estimate that the amount to ...
UK-based generic agrochemical trading company, AgChemAccess, has taken Dutch generic company Realchemie (Eindhoven) to court over non-payment for the purchase of the herbicide, metazachlor. Realchemie maintains that one of the products supplied infringes a third-party patent and wanted AgChemAccess to take it back. The transaction took place in the third quarter of 2008.
Realchemie approached AgChemAccess wanting to purchase BASF’s Butisan brand under a parallel trade transaction. Unable to ...
Bayer CropScience has successfully defended its patent for the herbicide safener, mefenpyr, in China, ending a dispute with the Chinese companies, Jiangsu Tian Rong and Yixing Hua Dong Agrochemical. Tian Rong and Hua Dong have undertaken to cease the infringing acts, pay damages and issue a public apology to Bayer. Bayer filed a lawsuit in 2008 against the two companies, seeking to enforce intellectual property rights under a Chinese patent (Agrow No 542, p 1). In January 2009, the Wuxi ...
Cheminova has lost its court case seeking an annulment of the European Commission's decision in 2007 not to re-register the insecticide/acaricide, malathion. The EU Court of First Instance dismissed the case in September and ordered Cheminova to pay costs.
The EU evaluation identified concerns over the impurity, isomalathion, and certain metabolites. Cheminova claimed that the Commission had raised concerns at a late stage in the process and had not taken account of all available data. The ...
