Patents Examined by Kahsay T. Habte
  • Patent number: 8314095
    Abstract: Novel compounds are provided which are GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor modulators. GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor modulators are useful in treating, preventing, or slowing the progression of diseases requiring GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor modulator therapy. These novel compounds have the structure: or stereoisomers or prodrugs or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein n1, n2, n3, n4, A, B, D, E, G, Y, Z, R1 and R2 are defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: John M. Fevig, Dean A. Wacker
  • Patent number: 8304545
    Abstract: The invention relates to a 1-aza-bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-en-3-ylmethyl acetate of the formula (I), wherein said compound is useful as a synthesis intermediate for the production of mequitazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Pierre Fabre Medicament
    Inventors: Charles Mioskowski, Vanessa Gonnot, Rachid Baati, Marc Nicolas
  • Patent number: 8304538
    Abstract: A method of producing a compound represented by Formula (I), which comprises a step A of reacting an anthranilic acid compound with a carboxylic halide in the absence of a base, but does not comprise a step of isolating of an amide intermediate compound represented by Formula (II): wherein R1 represents a substituent; n1 is an integer of 0 to 4; R2 represents an n2-valent substituent or a linking group; and n2 is an integer of 1 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keizo Kimura, Takashi Kitagawa, Osamu Uchida
  • Patent number: 8304410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds having formula 3 as well as the synthesis, intermediates and methods of using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Università degli Studi di Siena
    Inventors: Mariangela Biava, Giulio Cesare Porretta, Raffaello Pompei, Maurizio Botta, Fabrizio Manetti, Alessandro De Logu
  • Patent number: 8299075
    Abstract: The present invention relates to morpholine and thiomorpholine derivatives of the general formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: H. Lundbeck A/S
    Inventors: Christian Wenzel Tornoe, Mario Rottlander, Nikolay Khanzhin, William Patrick Watson, Andreas Ritzen
  • Patent number: 8299242
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for synthesizing 2,4-pyrimidinediamines as well as intermediates used therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulfried Felfer, Karl-Heinz Giselbrecht, Michael Wolberg
  • Patent number: 8293734
    Abstract: The current invention pertains to nitroimidazooxazine and nitroimidazooxazole analogues, their methods of preparation, and uses of the compounds as treatment for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, for use as anti-tubercular drugs, for use as anti-protozoal agents with unexpectedly high potency against Trypanosoma cruzi or Leishmania donovani, and for the treatment of other microbial infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Thompson, William Alexander Denny, Adrian Blaser, Zhenkun Ma
  • Patent number: 8288533
    Abstract: This invention relates to syntheses for the preparation of benzoxazine, including benzoxazine monomers and benzoxazime oligomers, from phenolic compounds, aldehyde compounds, and either primary diamine compounds, such as diamino alkylene compounds, e.g., methylene diamine, or diamino arylene compounds, e.g., phenylene diamine, using water, and optionally an organic solvent, as the reaction solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Henkel Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Helen Li, Wenbo Jiang
  • Patent number: 8288375
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formulae 1 and 1a, N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein R1, R1a, Y, and J are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling plant disease caused by a fungal pathogen comprising applying an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention. Further disclosed is a method for preparing compounds of Formula 1 from compounds of Formula 1a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Andrew Edmund Taggi, Thomas Martin Stevenson
  • Patent number: 8288377
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), their use as an inhibitor of a p53-MDM2 interaction as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds: wherein n, s, t, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, X, Y, Q, Z, G, E and D have defined meanings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.
    Inventors: Pierre-Henri Storck, Bruno Schoentjes, Arnaud Marcel Pierre Piettre, Philipp Ermert, Virginie Sophie Poncelet, Imre Christian Francis Csoka
  • Patent number: 8288374
    Abstract: Provided is a medicinal composition, in particular, a medicinal composition for treatment and/or prevention which has a high therapeutic effect on infection with a parasitic protozoa and a selective toxicity thereto and exhibits a life-prolonging effect and so on. A medicinal composition which contains as the active ingredient a benzo[a]phenoxazine compound represented by General formula (1) or a salt compound of the same, in particular, an agent for treating and/or preventing infection with a protozoa such as malaria, leishmaniasis, African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease, toxoplasmosis, lymphatic filariasis, babesiosis or coccidium disease; and a novel compound which is contained therein as the active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignees: Hoshi University, Synstar Japan Co., Ltd., Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka Ihara, Jian-Feng Ge, Chika Arai, Nasser Saad Mohamed Ismail, Mei Yang, Isamu Itoh, Reto Brun
  • Patent number: 8283347
    Abstract: A non-leaching mediator may include a compound having the general formula (I): and salts thereof, where n is about 9, and X is a halogen; a compound having the general formula (II): and salts thereof, where n is about 9, and X is a halogen; and/or a compound, having the general formula (III): and salts thereof, where n is about 8, and X is a halogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer HealthCare LLC
    Inventors: Jiangfeng Fei, William Chiang, Frank Kerrigan, Stuart Green
  • Patent number: 8278441
    Abstract: The present invention provides BACE inhibitors of Formula I: methods for their use, intermediates, and methods for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Dustin James Mergott, Grant Mathews Vaught
  • Patent number: 8278299
    Abstract: The present invention provides pyrimidinediamine compounds useful for inhibiting kinase activity, including the activity of polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1). Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating diseases associated with kinase activity, in particular enhanced PLK1 catalytic activity, such as diseases associated with abnormal cell proliferation, including neoplastic disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajinder Singh, Andy Atuegbu, John Ramphal, Hui Li, Marina Gelman, Jeffrey Clough, Carlos Valdez, Somasekhar Bhamidipati, Sambaiah Thota, Darren McMurtrie
  • Patent number: 8273767
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are useful in treating conditions or disorders prevented by or ameliorated by histamine-3 receptor ligands. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the histamine-3 receptor ligands, methods for using such compounds and compositions, and a process for preparing compounds within the scope of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Robert J. Altenbach, Lawrence A. Black, Sou-Jen Chang, Marlon D. Cowart, Ramin Faghih, Gregory A. Gfesser, Yi-Yin Ku, Huaqing Liu, Kirill A. Lukin, Diana L. Nersesian, Yu-ming Pu, Padam N. Sharma, Youssef L. Bennani, Michael P. Curtis
  • Patent number: 8268816
    Abstract: The application describes an assay for the identification of small molecule modulators of integrin CD11b/CD18 and small molecules capable of modulating activity of this receptor. For example, one such compound useful as an agonist of integrin CD11b/CD18 is the compound of Formula (I): Such compounds may be used in certain embodiments for treating a disease or condition selected from inflammation, immune-related disorders, cancer, ischemia-reperfusion injury, stroke, neointimal thickening associated with vascular injury, bullous pemphigoid, neonatal obstructive nephropathy, and cardiovascular disease, or in other embodiments for the treatment of a disease or condition selected from immune deficiency, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), myeloperoxidase deficiency, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, chronic granulomatous disease, hyper-IgM syndromes, leukocyte adhesion deficiency, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, and severe combined immunodeficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Inventors: Vineet Gupta, M. Amin Arnaout
  • Patent number: 8268820
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1a to R1c, R2, R3 and R5 are as defined in the description and claims and R4 signifies a bicyclic heteroaryl group or a cyanophenyl group, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds are glucocorticoid receptor antagonists useful for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, adrenal imbalance or depression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Hunziker, Chrisitan Lerner, Werner Mueller, Ulrike Obst Sander, Philippe Pflieger, Pius Waldmeier
  • Patent number: 8263592
    Abstract: The present invention is related to novel compounds of formula (I) having equilibrative nucleoside transporter ENT1 inhibiting properties, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, chemical processes for preparing these compounds and their use in the treatment of diseases linked to the inhibition of ENT1 receptors in animals, in particular humans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
    Inventors: Jean-Paul René Marie André Bosmans, Didier Jean-Claude Berthelot, Serge Maria Aloysius Pieters, Bie Maria Pieter Verbist, Michel Anna Jozef De Cleyn
  • Patent number: 8263632
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of Formula (I): wherein: n is 0 or 1; X is 0 or CH2; R1 is H or C1-2 alkyl; R2 is H or C1-3 alkyl; R3 and R4 are each independently H or C1-2 alkyl, where the alkyl may be substituted with one to three of the same or different substituents selected from R10; R5 is H or OCH3; R10 is F or Cl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignees: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incoporated, MSD K.K.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Iwama, Nobuhiko Kawanishi, Michael Mortimore, Mitsuru Ohkubo, Tomoko Sunami
  • Patent number: 8258131
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel fused bicyclic compound having an affinity to a receptor of mineral corticoid (MR), shown by the formula [I]: wherein the ring A is a benzene ring having a substituent R1, fused to an adjacent 6-membered heterocyclic ring and further optionally having a substituent(s) other than R1, R1 is an alkylsulfonylamino group etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Takahashi, Nobumasa Awai, Hidenori Akatsuka, Takayuki Kawaguchi, Toru Iijima