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Walter Kunz — 77 Patents

CICiba-Geigy: 54 patents #17 of 2,867Top 1%
SASyngenta Crop Protection Ag: 5 patents #89 of 703Top 15%
SASyngenta Participations Ag: 4 patents #258 of 1,106Top 25%
Hoechst Gmbh: 4 patents #925 of 4,020Top 25%
Novartis Ag: 3 patents #1,476 of 5,128Top 30%
SISyngenta Investment: 2 patents #19 of 75Top 30%
UEUS Dept of Energy: 1 patents #1,355 of 5,099Top 30%
DEDepartment Of Energy: 1 patents #41 of 740Top 6%
NNNokia Siemens Networks: 1 patents #124 of 424Top 30%
NFNovartis Finance: 1 patents #94 of 193Top 50%
Overall (All Time): #24,274 of 4,157,543Top 1%
77 Patents All Time
Walter Kunz has been granted 77 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ciba-Geigy. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in June 2010. Walter Kunz ranks #24,274 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.58%). Patent records list Walter Kunz in Oberwil, NM, CH.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 1990.peak 81980: 4 patents19801981: 5 patents1982: 3 patents1983: 4 patents19831984: 5 patents1985: 5 patents1986: 2 patents19861987: 2 patents1989: 2 patents1990: 8 patents19901991: 5 patents1992: 4 patents1993: 5 patents19931994: 2 patents1995: 3 patents1996: 1 patents19961998: 3 patents1999: 1 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 6 patents2003: 1 patents2004: 2 patents20042006: 1 patents2010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 77 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7742779 Method for synchronizing a radio communication system that is divided up into radio cells Mario Konegger 2010-06-22 $4,822,000
7105545 N-p-propargyloxyphenethyl-thioacetic acid amides Clemens Lamberth, Fredrik Cederbaum, Martin Zeller 2006-09-12 $1,745,000
6683211 Phenyl-propargylether derivatives Clemens Lamberth, Martin Zeller, Fredrik Cederbaum 2004-01-27 $2,176,000
6673938 Substituted pyridine herbicides Andrew Edmunds, Christoph Luthy, Karl Seckinger, Alain De Mesmaeker, Jurgen Schaetzer 2004-01-06 $1,020,000
6534445 Substituted pyridine herbicides Andrew Edmunds, Christoph Luthy, Karl Seckinger, Alain De Mesmaeker, Jurgen Schaetzer 2003-03-18 $1,512,000
6498125 Pyridine ketones useful as herbicides Andrew Edmunds, Karl Seckinger, Christoph Luthy, Alain De Mesmaeker, Jurgen Schaetzer 2002-12-24 $1,882,000
6498265 3-amino-2-mercaptobenzoic acid derivatives and processes for their preparation Beat Jau 2002-12-24 $1,882,000
6469005 Propargylether derivatives Martin Zeller, Andre Jeanguenat, Clemens Lamberth 2002-10-22 $3,446,000
6380134 N-pyridyl herbicide compounds Kurt Nebel, Jean Wenger 2002-04-30 $1,009,000
6380422 3-amino-2-mercaptobenzoic acid derivatives and processes for their preparation Beat Jau 2002-04-30 $1,009,000
6369002 N-heteroaryl-substituted pyridine derivatives and their use as herbicides Kurt Nebel 2002-04-09 $1,028,000
6268308 Herbicidal S-substituted 1,2,4,6-thiatriazines Andre Stoller, Helmut Zondler, Christoph Luthy, Jean Wenger 2001-07-31 $2,469,000
6255251 Isoxazole derivatives and their use as herbicides Alain De Mesmaeker, Jurgen Schaetzer 2001-07-03 $2,614,000
6002013 3-amino-2-mercaptobenzoic acid derivatives and processes for their preparation Beat Jau 1999-12-14
5847147 3-Amino-2-mercaptobenzoic acid derivatives and processes for their preparation Beat Jau 1998-12-08
5814629 Microbicides Peter Stanetty 1998-09-29
5770758 3-amino-2-mercaptobenzoic acid derivatives and processes for their preparation Beat Jau 1998-06-23
5523311 Process and a composition for immunizing plants against disease Rolf Schurter, Robert Nyfeler 1996-06-04
5447945 Nematicidal compositions Marius Sutter 1995-09-05
5403508 Pearlescent dispersions comprising fatty acid glycol ester and non-ionic surfactant Alwin Reng, Werner Skrypzak 1995-04-04
5384321 Microbicidal compositions Rolf Schurter 1995-01-24
5304652 Compositions for protecting plants from diseases Rolf Schurter 1994-04-19
5302607 Compositions for protecting plants against disease Rolf Schurter 1994-04-12
5260423 Substituted benzo-1,2,3-thiadiazoles Rolf Schurter 1993-11-09
5248683 Benzo-1,2,3-thiadiazole derivatives Hans-Georg Brunner, Rolf Schurter 1993-09-28