Delhi HC Grants GSP Crop Permission to Produce and Sell CTPR in India

Chlorantraniliprole (CTPR), an insecticide product, can now be manufactured and sold in India by GSP Crop Science, a market leader in the agricultural industry. The Honourable Delhi High Court refused FMC's request for a temporary restraining order in CS (Comm) 662/2022 (FMC Corporation vs. GSP Crop Science) on November 14, paving the way for GSP to introduce its CTPR product.

The Court declared IN'004 (the contested patent) to be prima facie invalid due to prior claiming, and it then assessed FMC a cost of Rs. 2,000,000 for its efforts to maintain its monopoly and for the numerous material omissions and misrepresentations it made to the Court and the Patent Office. With this new strategy, GSP Crop will produce and market CTPR as part of the Make in India Initiative, which will benefit both farmers and buyers in general.

FMC Corporation, USA and its two group companies, FMC Agro Singapore Pvt Ltd and FMC India Pvt Ltd, filed the lawsuit against Ahmedabad-based GSP Crop Science Ltd., seeking, an injunction restraining the infringement of Indian Patent No. IN252004 titled "Method for Preparing Fused Oxazinones from Ortho-Amino Aromatic Carboxylic Acid and a Carboxylic Acid in the presence of a Sulfonyl Chloride and Pyridine.” The FMC Group are engaged in the production, promotion, and sale of chemicals, including agrochemicals.

By suppressing all Lepidoptera and other species, Chlorantraniliprole (CTPR) provides an efficient and long-lasting pest control in crops including sugarcane, rice, soybean, legumes, and vegetables. On touch, it is poisonous to insect eggs, larvae, and pupae as well. CTPR efficiently penetrates plants from root to stem and has good bottom-up intake and transport in plants.

On this, Bhavesh Shah, managing director of GSP Crop Science said, “GSP is delighted to provide the Indian market with CTPR (Chlorantraniliprole) under the brand name Helipro and Ballot. The Honorable Delhi High Court cleared us to make the product affordable and easily accessible to the farming community of India. GSP promises to provide as we have in the past best quality product for our customers”.

One of the top producers of agrochemicals in India is GSP Crop Science Pvt Ltd. For Indian agriculture and the farmers' community, it produces a broad variety of "technical" and "formulations" insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and plant regulators.

GSP Crop Science has four manufacturing facilities in Gujarat and Jammu & Kashmir, generates an annual revenue of Rs 1200 crore, and offers more than 70 branded products. It exports to 25 countries and markets its products through a network of 6,500 distributors, over 30,000 dealers, and 34 depots in India.