Patents Assigned to Sepracor
  • Publication number: 20090156862
    Abstract: A method of preparation of a highly pure salt of R,R-formoterol L-tartrate is disclosed. The process provides the most thermodynamically stable polymorph by recrystallization of a novel polymorph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Sepracor Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald J. Tanoury, Chris H. Senanayake, Donald W. Kessler
  • Publication number: 20090111817
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing two or more active agents that when taken together can be used to treat, e.g., menopause, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or cognitive disorders. The first component of the pharmaceutical composition is a sedative eszopiclone. The second component of the pharmaceutical composition is an antidepressant. The present invention also relates to a method of treating menopause, perimenopause, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and cognitive disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: SEPRACOR INC.
    Inventors: Judy Caron, Thomas Wessel, Karim Lalji, Mark A. Varney
  • Publication number: 20090111818
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing two or more active agents that when taken together can be used to treat, e.g., menopause, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or cognitive disorders. The first component of the pharmaceutical composition is a sedative eszopiclone. The second component of the pharmaceutical composition is O-desmethylvenlafaxine. The present invention also relates to a method of treating menopause, perimenopause, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and cognitive disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: SEPRACOR INC.
    Inventors: Judy Caron, Thomas Wessel, Karim Lalji, Mark A. Varney
  • Publication number: 20090099248
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel inhibitors of the enzyme D-amino acid oxidase. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating or preventing diseases and/or condition, wherein modulation of D-serine levels, and/or its oxidative products, is effective in ameliorating symptoms. The invention further provides methods of enhancing learning, memory and/or cognition. For example, the invention provides methods for treating or preventing loss of memory and/or cognition associated with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease. The invention further provides methods for preventing loss of neuronal function characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, methods are provided for the treatment or prevention of neuropsychiatric diseases (e.g., schizophrenia) and for the treatment or prevention of pain and ataxia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: SEPRACOR INC.
    Inventors: Michele L. R. Heffernan, Qun Kevin Fang, Robert J. Foglesong, Seth C. Hopkins, Cyprian O. Ogbu, Mustapha Soukri, Kerry L. Spear
  • Patent number: 7517892
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to heterocyclic compounds. A second aspect of the present invention relates to the use of the heterocyclic compounds as ligands for various mammalian cellular receptors, including dopamine, serotonin, or norepinephrine transporters. The compounds of the present invention will find use in the treatment of numerous ailments, conditions and diseases which afflict mammals, including but not limited to addiction, anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, hypertension, migraine, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, emesis, psychosis, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, Lesche-Nyhane disease, Wilson's disease, and Tourette's syndrome. An additional aspect of the present invention relates to the synthesis of combinatorial libraries of the heterocyclic compounds, and the screening of those libraries for biological activity, e.g., in assays based on dopamine transporters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Sepracor Inc.
    Inventors: Brian M. Aquila, Thomas D. Bannister, Gregory D. Cuny, James R. Hauske, Joanne M. Holland, Paul E. Persons, Heike Radeke, Fengjiang Wang, Liming Shao
  • Patent number: 7511141
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to piperidine-piperazine compounds. A second aspect of the present invention relates to the use of the piperidine-piperazine compounds as ligands for various mammalian cellular receptors or transporters or both, including dopamine, serotonin or norepinephrine receptors or transporters, any combination of them, or all of them. The compounds of the present invention will find use in the treatment of numerous ailments, conditions and diseases which afflict mammals, including but not limited to addiction, anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, hypertension, migraine, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, emesis, psychosis, analgesia, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, restless leg syndrome, sleeping disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, irritable bowel syndrome, premature ejaculation, menstrual dysphoria syndrome, urinary incontinence, inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, Lesche-Nyhane disease, Wilson's disease, and Tourette's syndrome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Sepracor, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul E. Persons, Heike Radeke
  • Patent number: 7511073
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to amines. A second aspect of the present invention relates to the use of the amines as inhibitors of a mammalian anandamide transporter. The compounds of the present invention will also find use in the treatment of numerous ailments, conditions and diseases which afflict mammals, including but not limited to asthma, neuropathic pain, persistent pain, inflammatory pain, hyperactivity, hypertension, brain ischemia, Parkinson's disease, spasticity, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia, hemorrhagic shock, septic shock, cardiac shock, migrane, Horton's headache, multiple sclerosis, anorexia, AIDS wasting syndrome, organ rejection, autoimmune diseases, allergy, arthritis, Crohn's disease, malignant gliomas, neurodegenerative diseases, Huntington's chorea, glaucoma, nausea, anxiety, psychosis, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, premature ejaculation, and stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Sepracor, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian M. Aquila, Seth C. Hopkins, Curtis A. Lockshin, Fengjiang Wang
  • Publication number: 20090060917
    Abstract: The compound of formula (I) is a water-stable, long acting ?2-selective adrenoceptor agonist useful as a bronchodilator in the treatment of bronchoconstriction associated with reversible obstructive airways diseases and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Sepracor Inc.
    Inventors: Craig R. Abolin, H. Scott Wilkinson, Paul McGlynn, William K. McVicar
  • Publication number: 20090060922
    Abstract: The compound of formula (I) is a water-stable, long acting ?2-selective adrenoceptor agonist useful as a bronchodilator in the treatment of bronchoconstriction associated with reversible obstructive airways diseases and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Sepracor Inc.
    Inventors: Craig R. Abolin, H. Scott Wilkinson, Paul McGlynn, William K. McVicar
  • Patent number: 7488747
    Abstract: Methods for increasing D-Serine concentration and reducing concentration of the toxic products of D-Serine oxidation, for enhancing learning, memory and/or cognition, or for treating schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, ataxia or neuropathic pain, or preventing loss in neuronal function characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases involve administering to a subject in need of treatment a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof: wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen, halo, nitro, alkyl, acyl, alkylaryl, and XYR5; or R1 and R2, taken together, form a 5, 6, 7 or 8-membered substituted or unsubstituted carbocyclic or heterocyclic group; X and Y are independently selected from O, S, NH, and (CR6R7)n; R3 is hydrogen, alkyl or M+; M is aluminum, calcium, lithium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, zinc ion or a mixture thereof; Z is N or CR4; R4 is from selected from hydrogen, halo, nitro, alkyl, alkylaryl, and XYR5;
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Sepracor Inc.
    Inventors: Q. Kevin Fang, Seth Hopkins, Michele Heffernan, Milan Chytil
  • Publication number: 20090035224
    Abstract: This invention related to methods of treating, preventing and managing various pulmonary or respiratory diseases or disorders using albuterol in combination with calcium activated potassium channel openers. Pharmaceuticals compositions comprising albuterol and calcium activated potassium channel openers are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: SEPRACOR INC.
    Inventors: Anne M. Sullivan, John W. Simon, Yael Schwartz
  • Patent number: 7479572
    Abstract: A method of preparation of a highly pure salt of R,R-formoterol L-tartrate is disclosed. The process provides the most thermodynamically stable polymorph by recrystallization of a novel polymorph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Sepracor Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald J. Tanoury, Chris H. Senanayaka, Donald W. Kessler
  • Publication number: 20090005456
    Abstract: Phenyl-substituted cyclohexylamine derivatives and method for their synthesis and characterization are disclosed. Use of these compounds to treat/prevent neurological disorders as well as methods for their synthesis are set forth herein. Exemplary compounds of the invention inhibit reuptake of endogenous monoamines, such as dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine (e.g., from the synaptic cleft) and modulate one or more monoamine transporter. Pharmaceutical formulations incorporating compounds of the invention are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: SEPRACOR INC.
    Inventors: Liming Shao, Fengjiang Wang, Scott Christopher Malcolm, Michael Charles Hewitt, Jianguo Ma, Seth Ribe, Mark A. Varney, Una Campbell, Sharon Rae Engel, Larry Wendell Hardy, Patrick Koch, Rudy Schreiber, Kerry L. Spear
  • Patent number: 7468362
    Abstract: Compositions containing ?2 adrenergic agonists in combination with carbonates and carbonates of the formula and in combination with related steroid carbonates and carbonates are disclosed. The compositions are useful for treating bronchospasm, for inducing bronchodilator and for treating rhinitis, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and inflammatory diseases, particularly by inhalation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Sepracor Inc.
    Inventors: Mark G. Currie, Steve Jones, Paul Grover, Chris H. Senanayake, Q. Kevin Fang
  • Patent number: 7465729
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of eszopiclone for the treatment of symptoms accompanying perimenopause or menopause.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Sepracor Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Wessel, Judy Caron
  • Publication number: 20080293726
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing two or more active agents that when taken together can be used to treat, e.g., menopause, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or cognitive disorders. The first component of the pharmaceutical composition is a sedative eszopiclone. The second component of the pharmaceutical composition is trans 4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-N-methyl-1-napthalenamine or trans 4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-napthalenamine. The present invention also relates to a method of treating menopause, perimenopause, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and cognitive disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: SEPRACOR INC.
    Inventors: Judy Caron, Thomas Wessel, Karim Lalji, Mark A. Varney, Roger P. Bakale, Surendra P. Singh, H. Scott Wilkinson, Xiping Su, Zhengxu Steve Han, Stefan G. Koenig
  • Patent number: 7456173
    Abstract: The invention is directed to racemic and stereomerically pure compounds of Formula 3: and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, methods of their use, and methods of their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Sepracor Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Jerussi, Qun K. Fang
  • Publication number: 20080280993
    Abstract: Treatment of CNS disorders with (1R,4S)-trans 4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-napthalenamine; and (1S,4R)-trans 4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-napthalenamine is disclosed. A process for preparing 4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-napthalenamine is also disclosed. The process includes the preparation of all four isomers of N-[4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalen-1-yl]formamide, which are also useful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: SEPRACOR INC.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Jerussi, Qun Kevin Fang, Mark G. Currie
  • Patent number: 7446115
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to novel peptidomometic compounds. A second aspect of the present invention relates to the use of the novel peptidomimetic compounds as ligands—agonists or antagonists—for various cellular receptors, e.g., G-protein-coupled receptors and opioid receptors, and various cellular ion channels, e.g., sodium and calcium. In certain embodiments, compounds of the present invention preferentially or selectively inhibit sodium or calcium ion channels. In certain embodiments, compounds of the present invention preferentially or selectively agonize or antagonize ? opioid receptors. In certain embodiments, compounds of the present invention preferentially or selectively inhibit sodium or calcium ion channels and agonize or antagonize ?-opioid receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Sepracor, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul E. Persons, Joanne M. Holland, James R. Hauske
  • Publication number: 20080269166
    Abstract: Methods of preparing, and compositions comprising, derivatives of venlafaxine are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of treating and preventing diseases and disorders including, but not limited to, affective disorders such as depression, bipolar and manic disorders, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, cerebral function disorders, obesity and weight gain, incontinence, dementia and related disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Sepracor Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Jerussi, Chrisantha Senanayake, Nandkumar Bhongle