Patents Examined by Jason M. Nolan
  • Patent number: 8518940
    Abstract: The present invention embraces compounds selected for interacting with the Fingers-Palm pocket of telomerase and use thereof for modulating the activity of telomerase and preventing or treating diseases or conditions associated with telomerase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: The Wistar Institute
    Inventor: Emmanuel Skordalakes
  • Patent number: 8513435
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing 1-(2-aminoethyl)imidazolidin-2-one or the thiocarbonyl thereof, and also to the product that can be obtained according to this method, and which has a purity of at least 98%, and to the uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Alain Baloche, Jean-Paul Gamet, Jean-Philippe Gillet
  • Patent number: 8513162
    Abstract: There is provided a halogen-containing organosulfur compound having a controlling effect on arthropod pests represented by the formula (I): wherein m represents 0, 1 or 2; n represents 0, 1 or 2; A represents an optionally substituted 3- to 8-membered saturated heterocyclic group; Q represents a fluorine atom or a C1-C5 haloalkyl group having at least one fluorine atom; R1, R1a and R3 independently represent an optionally halogenated C1-C4 chain hydrocarbon group, etc.; R2, R2a and R4 independently represent an optionally halogenated C1-C4 chain hydrocarbon group, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventor: Hiromasa Mitsudera
  • Patent number: 8513222
    Abstract: This invention relates to use of inhibitors of the transforming growth factor-? (TGF-?) type I receptor (ALK5) and/or the activin type I receptor (ALK4) in treating, preventing, or reducing fibrosis, cancer, and vascular injuries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: EWHA University—Industry Collaboration Foundation
    Inventors: Dae-Kee Kim, Yhun Yhong Sheen, Chenghua Jin, Chul-Yong Park, Domalapally Sreenu, Kota Sudhakar Rao, Maddeboina Krishnaiah, Vura Bala Subrahmanyam
  • Patent number: 8513292
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pyrrolidine-2,5-dione compounds, and methods of preparation of these compounds. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising pyrrolidine-2,5-dione compounds. The present invention provides methods of treating a cell proliferative disorder, such as a cancer, by administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound or pyrrolidine-2,5-dione compound of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: ArQule, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Westlund, Jason Hill, Mark A. Ashwell, Nivedita Namdev, Jianqiang Wang, Syed Ali
  • Patent number: 8501768
    Abstract: The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula (I) wherein R1, R2, A, E, G and n are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds. The compounds are useful as inhibitors of hormone sensitive lipase (HSL) and may be used for the treatment of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, myocardial dysfunction, inflammation, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Aurelia Conte, Daniel Hunziker, Werner Neidhart, Matthias Nettekoven, Tanja Schulz-Gasch
  • Patent number: 8501965
    Abstract: An inexpensive and industrially advantageous method for producing optically active syn-3-(N-substituted-aminomethyl)-4-fluoropyrrolidine which may be an intermediate for producing pharmaceuticals is provided. The present invention relates a method for producing a syn-1-protected-4-fluoro-3-(N-substituted-N-nitrobenzenesulfonyl)pyrrolidine derivative or it's enantiomer, or their salts comprising the process of fluorinating a compound represented by the general formula (6) (in the formula, PG1 represents a protecting group for an amino group, R1 represents a C1 to C6 alkyl group which may be substituted or a C3 to C8 cycloalkyl group which may be substituted, and Ns represents a 2-nitrobenzenesulfonyl group or a 4-nitrobenzenesulfonyl group) or it's enantiomer using a nucleophilic fluorinating agent and an organic base having an amidine or guanidine structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Kyorin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Suzuki, Muneki Nagao
  • Patent number: 8497296
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a compound of Formula (I), wherein R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom and unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group; R1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom and unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group; X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom or halogen atom; and Y is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom, halogen atom, C1-C4 alkyl group, nitro group, and —OCF3 group, as well as for its use in therapy, preferably for the treatment of cancer, and to a related pharmaceutical composition, the use of the compound for the manufacture of a medicament for the respective medical indication, and a method of synthesis of the compounds of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: King Saud University
    Inventors: Tarek Aboul-Fadl Mohamed Hassan, Adnan Ahmed Kadi, Hatem Abdel-Khader Abdel-Aziz
  • Patent number: 8492559
    Abstract: Substituted indole compounds corresponding to the formula I: In which R8, R9a, R9b, R10, R11, R200, R210, A, D, T, q, s and t have defined meanings, processes for the preparation thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and the use of substituted indole compounds for the treatment or inhibition of pain and other conditions which are at least partly mediated by Bradykinin 1 receptors (B1R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Schunk, Melanie Reich, Michael Engels, Tieno Germann, Ruth Jostock, Sabine Hees
  • Patent number: 8486961
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I: methods of their use, processes for their preparation and isolated actinomycetes strains capable of preparing pyrrolo[4,3,2-de]quinolin-8-amine compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Min He, Jeffrey Edwin Janso, Ker Yu, Leonard Alexander McDonald, Laurel Rita Barbieri, Ariamala Gopalsamy
  • Patent number: 8481577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of drugs associated with treating diabetes. Particularly, the present invention relates to a dipeptidyl peptidase-IV inhibitor having the structure shown by formula (I), which contains amide thiazole structure and has an effect on treating diabetes, and a preparation method and a pharmaceutical composition containing it, as well as use thereof in manufacture of the drugs for treating the diabetes, wherein, R1 is methyl; R2 is phenyl; phenyl, 2-thienyl substituted in a mono-substituted, bi-substituted manner by fluorine and methyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research
    Inventors: Guilong Zhao, Weiren Xu, Yuli Wang, Lida Tang, Yiliang Li, Meixiang Zou, Wei Liu, Hua Shao, Chubing Tan, Peng Liu
  • Patent number: 8470863
    Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of chroman compounds of formula I as ?2C adrenergic receptor agonists, methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such compounds, methods of prepaxing pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more such compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more conditions associated with the ?2C adrenergic receptors using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions. wherein J is: Z is —[C(Rc)(Rc)]x—, where x is 1, 2, or 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme, Corp.
    Inventors: Junying Zheng, Kevin D. McCormick, Jianhua Chao, Christopher W. Boyce, Robert G. Aslanian, Younong Yu
  • Patent number: 8470855
    Abstract: Compounds of the general formulae (1) and (2) A-B-D-B?-A???(1) and A-B-D-E??(2) in which A and A? may be identical or different and are the residue in which X is S, O, CH2, CH2CH2, CH2O or CH2NH, and Y is H or CN, and * designates a chiral carbon atom preferably in S- or L-configuration; B and B? may be identical or different and are an O, N or S containing or non-containing, unsubstituted or substituted, unbranched or branched alkylene residue, cycloalkylene residue, aralkylene residue, heterocycloalkylene residue, heteroarylalkylene residue, arylamidoalkylene residue, heteroarylamidoalkylene residue, unsubstituted or mono- or poly-substituted arylene residue or heteroarylene residue having one or more five-, six- or seven-membered ring(s); D is —S—S— or —Se—Se—; and E is the group —CH2—CH(NH2)—R9 or —CH2—*CH(NH2)—R9 respectively in which R9 is an O, N or S containing or non-containing, unsubstituted or substituted, unbranched or branched alkyl residue, cycloalkyl residue, aralkyl residu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: IMTM GmbH
    Inventors: Siegfried Ansorge, Klaus Neubert, Ute Bank, Irene Reichstein, Jürgen Faust, Michael Täger, Petra Fuchs, Bianca Senns
  • Patent number: 8471037
    Abstract: The present invention relates to imidazole derivatives having vinyl group represented by general formula (I) which possess electron transporting character, have a high glass transition temperature (Tg), and high decomposition temperature (Td): wherein all symbols are defined as recited in the specification. The present invention also relates to a use of the imidazole derivatives having vinyl group as a guest emitter or electron transporter in luminescent elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chien-Hong Cheng, He-Pei Hsu, Ho-Hsiu Chou, Yu-Han Chen, Yi-Hsiang Chen
  • Patent number: 8471023
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes for the stereoselective synthesis of 6-alpha-amino morphinans. In particular, the invention provides processes for the reductive amination of 6-keto normorphinans by catalytic transfer hydrogenation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Mallinckrodt LLC
    Inventors: Christopher W. Grote, Gary L. Cantrell, Joseph P. McClurg, Catherine E. Thomasson, Frank W. Moser
  • Patent number: 8466296
    Abstract: Processes and intermediates are provided for the preparation of substituted aminomethyl 2,3,8,9-tetrahydiO-7H-1,4-dioxino[2.3-e]indo]-8-ones of the Formula (A) wherein the variables n, R and R3 are as described herein. Such compounds are useful, for example, as dopamine receptor agonists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Ligand Pharmaceuticals
    Inventors: Zhe-qing Wang, Andrew Staab, Christopher Seekamp, George P. Luke
  • Patent number: 8466177
    Abstract: Compounds that are useful in treating or preventing viral infections, such as influenza, are described herein. Further described are compositions made from these compounds and methods for using the compounds and their compositions in treating or preventing viral infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: The UAB Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ming Luo, Zhen Yang
  • Patent number: 8466294
    Abstract: 1-aza-3,7-dioxabicyclo[3.3.0]octane compounds, process for their preparation, their use as pro-fragrances, and washing and cleaning compositions, fabric softeners and cosmetics comprising them, and a process for prolonging the odor perception of such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ursula Huchel, Silvia Sauf, Thomas Gerke
  • Patent number: 8466280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel cocrystal compound of 5-chloro-N-({(5S)-2-oxo-3-[4-(3-oxo-4-morpholinyl)phenyl]-1,3-oxazolidin-5-yl}methyl)-2-thiophenecarboxamide (rivaroxaban) and malonic acid, to processes for its preparation, to medicaments comprising this compound and to their use for controlling diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Alfons Grunenberg, Karsten Fähnrich, Olaf Queckenberg, Christiane Reute, Birgit Keil, Karen Sue Gushurst, Ezra John Still
  • Patent number: 8461196
    Abstract: The invention provides novel, multiply-substituted 1-aryl-3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes, and related processes and intermediates for preparing these compounds, as well as compositions and methods employing these compounds for the treatment and/or prevention of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including depression and anxiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Inventors: Phil Skolnick, Anthony Basile, Zhengming Chen, Joseph W. Epstein