Patents Represented by Attorney George W. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8263584
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with novel imidazopyridine derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and A are as defined in the description and in the claims, as well as physiologically acceptable salts and esters thereof. These compounds inhibit PDE10A and can be used for the treatment of various diseases, including central nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and schizophrenia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Daniela Alberati, Ruben Alvarez Sanchez, Konrad Bleicher, Alexander Flohr, Katrin Groebke Zbinden, Matthias Koerner, Bernd Kuhn, Jens-Uwe Peters, Markus Rudolph
  • Patent number: 8088815
    Abstract: There are provided compounds of the formula wherein X, Y and R1 to R8 are described herein along with the enantiomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof. The compounds are useful as anticancer agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: David Joseph Bartkovitz, Xin-Jie Chu, Qingjie Ding, Bradford James Graves, Nan Jiang, Jing Zhang, Zhuming Zhang
  • Patent number: 8071571
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical combination or composition containing a lipase inhibitor, preferably orlistat, and a bile acid sequestrant is useful for treating obesity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Barbier, Paul Hadvary, Hans Lengsfeld
  • Patent number: 8071622
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with novel indol-2-yl-carbonyl-piperidin-benzoimidazolon and indol-2-yl-carbonyl-piperidin-benzoxazolon derivatives as V1a receptor antagonists, their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use for the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders and other diseases. In particular, the present invention concerns compounds of formula (I) wherein R1 to R11, X and Y are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Caterina Bissantz, Christophe Grundschober, Raffaello Masciadri, Hasane Ratni, Mark Rogers-Evans, Patrick Schnider
  • Patent number: 8039495
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of the formula (I): as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the substituents are as those disclosed in the specification. These compounds, and the pharmaceutical compositions containing them, are useful for the treatment of metabolic diseases and disorders such as, for example, type II diabetes mellitus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Bolin, Yimin Qian, Kshitij Chhabilbhai Thakkar, Lin Yi, Weiya Yun
  • Patent number: 7951824
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel pyridine-2-carboxyamide derivatives of formula (I) useful as metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists: wherein Y, Z, R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the specification herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Georg Jaeschke, Will Spooren, Eric Vieira
  • Patent number: 7504404
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) wherein A, E G, J, L, M, R1, R2, and R3 are as defined in the specification and claims. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and methods for preparing the compounds and compositions. The compounds are metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists and are useful for the treatment of a variety of CNS disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Silvia Gatti McArthur, Erwin Goetschi, Juergen Wichmann, Thomas Johannes Woltering
  • Patent number: 7384945
    Abstract: Provided are compounds of the formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, processes for making said compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compound and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods of using said compounds. The compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases which are associated with the modulation of CB1 receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Konrad Bleicher, Matthias Heinrich Nettekoven, Philippe Pflieger, Stephan Roever
  • Patent number: 7226923
    Abstract: Compounds of formula I their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, enantiomeric forms, diastereoisomers and racemates are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for the preparation of the above-mentioned compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, as well as the use of the above-mentioned compounds in the treatment, control or prevention of illnesses such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Boyd, Frederick Brookfield, Guy Georges, Bernhard Goller, Sabine Huensch, Petra Rueger, Matthias Rueth, Stefan Scheiblich, Christine Schuell, Wolfgang von der Saal, Justin Warne, Stefan Weigand
  • Patent number: 7119113
    Abstract: The invention relates to carboxamide derivatives as defined in the specification and claims, to a process for their preparation, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and to their use as mGluR1 enhancers in the treatment and prevention of neurological disorders and diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Joerg Huwyler, Frederic Knoflach, Eric Vieira, Juergen Wichmann
  • Patent number: 7098241
    Abstract: The (R) and (S) enantiomers of a compound of formula I are novel antiproliferative therapeutic agents. These compounds have HDAC inhibitor activity and are useful in the treatment of cancer. Also disclosed are methods of making and using compounds of formula (I), as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Adelbert Grossmann, Frank Herting, Matthias Koerner, Klaus-Peter Kuenkele, Anja Limberg, Olaf Mundigl, Ulrich Tibes
  • Patent number: 7081351
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for testing an agent for its potential to inhibit heparanase catalytic activity, comprising the steps of: interacting immobilized heparanase substrate binding protein on a solid support with labeled heparanase substrate to provide immobilized labeled heparanase substrate, interacting a heparanase enzyme solution with the immobilized labeled heparanase substrate in the presence of the agent, and detecting the presence or absence of label in the solution remote from the solid support. The labeled heparanase substrate may be bound to an immobilization bridge which binds to immobilized molecules on a solid support, to provide bridge-immobilized labeled heparanase substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Sen Huang, Anthony Neri, John L Roberts
  • Patent number: 6693116
    Abstract: The present application relates to compounds of the formula wherein R1 is hydrogen, halogen or lower alkoxy; R2 is hydrogen or is —C(O)-lower alkyl or —C(O)-phenyl, wherein the phenyl ring is unsubstituted or substituted by one or two substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy and trifluoromethyl, or is —C(O)-furanyl or —C(O)-thiophenyl, wherein the rings are unsubstituted or substituted by halogen; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds are useful in the treatment of diseases associated with the adenosine A2 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Heinrich Nettekoven, Sebastien Schmitt
  • Patent number: 6417360
    Abstract: The compounds of formula (I) wherein R1 has the significance as given in the description, are inhibitors of endothelin receptors and can therefore be used for the treatment of disorders which are associated with abnormal vascular tone and endothelial dysfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Volker Breu, Philippe Coassolo, Werner Neidhart, Sébastien Roux, Peter Weiss
  • Patent number: 6107342
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the compound of formulae ##STR1## and to a process for the manufacture of compounds of the general formula ##STR2## which are ligands for the metabotropic glutamate receptors of group II, whereinT is tritium;R.sup.1 is hydroxy, lower alkoxy, lower alkenyloxy, benzyloxy, hydrogen, deuterium or tritium;R.sup.11 is hydrogen, deuterium or tritium, hydroxy or amino, andR.sup.2 is hydrogen or tritium, orR.sup.1 and R.sup.2 form a bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Geo Adam, Philippe Nicolas Huguenin-Virchaux, Vincent Mutel, Heinz Stadler, Thomas Johannes Woltering
  • Patent number: 6103902
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a novel process for the carbamoylation of substituted pyridines, especially with a process for the preparation of compounds of formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sup.4 to R.sup.8 represent hydrogen, lower-alkoxy or halogen; or optionally salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventor: Uwe Klinkhammer
  • Patent number: 6030953
    Abstract: The present invention provides orally administrable pharmaceutical compositions containing an inhibitor of gastrointestinal lipase, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of chitosan, its derivatives and salts thereof. Methods are provided for preventing and treating anal leakage of oil in a patient to whom a composition containing an inhibitor of gastrointestinal lipase is orally administered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Jacques Bailly, Andre Fleury, Paul Hadvary, Hans Lengsfeld, Hans Steffen
  • Patent number: 6025324
    Abstract: Polyethylene and polypropylene protein conjugates which modulate body weight of ani is and humans for the treatment, prevention and control obesity and associated diseases or conditions, and the recombinant expression of these biologically active proteins in purified and homogeneous forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Sebastian Bailon, Arthur Campfield, Rene Devos, Yves Guisez
  • Patent number: 5928636
    Abstract: The present invention provides a combination of IL-12 and IFN.alpha. together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier useful for treatment and prophylaxis of infectious diseases, preferably chronic infectious diseases and more preferably viral infections, e.g. HSV, HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, papilloma etc., bacterial infections, e.g. tuberculosis, salmonellosis, listeriosis, etc., and parasite infections, e.g. malaria, leishmaniasis, and schistosomiasis. These compositions are characterized by the synergistic interaction of IL-12 and IFN.alpha.. The present invention also provides the use of the above combination for the treatment and prophylaxis of infectious diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Gottfried Alber, Jacqueline Anne Carr, Frank Albert Mattner, Michael John Mulqueen, Kathrin Palmer, Jane Andre Louise Rogerson
  • Patent number: 5905074
    Abstract: A compound of the formula ##STR1## useful for treating vitamin D dependent disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventor: Fernand Schneider