Patents Examined by Mukund J. Shah
  • Patent number: 6696455
    Abstract: This invention discloses compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful in therapeutically and/or prophylactically treating patients with an illness. Such illnesses include cancer, and secondary infections caused by Pneumocystis carinii and Toxoplasmosis gondii in immunocompromised patients. The compounds themselves, methods of making these compounds, and methods of using these compounds are all disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 6696594
    Abstract: A process for the conversion of aldehydes to esters, specifically acrolein or methacrolein to methyl acrylate or methyl methacrylate, respectively. Essentially in the absence of water, an aldehyde is contacted with an oxidizing agent to form an intermediate and then the intermediate is contacted with a diol or an alcohol to form an ester or diester. Preferably, the oxidizing agent is also a chlorinating agent. Specifically, acrolein or methacrolein is contacted with an oxidizing/chlorinating agent, such as t-butyl hypochlorite, and the chlorinated compound is contacted with an alcohol, such as methanol, to form methyl acrylate or methyl methacrylate, respectively. Generally, the order of addition is for the oxidizing agent to be added to the aldehyde, specifically for t-butyl hypochlorite to be added to acrolein or methacrolein, and for the diol or alcohol to be added to the intermediate, specifically for the methanol to be added to the reaction product of acrolein or methacrolein and t-butyl hypochlorite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew T. Au, Jean-Pierre Lawanier, David Adam Flosser
  • Patent number: 6696437
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel benzimidazoles, their preparation and their use as inhibitors of the enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase or PARP (EC 2.4.2.30) for producing drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Abbott GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilfried Lubisch, Michael Kock, Thomas Hoeger, Roland Grandel, Uta Holzenkamp, Sabine Schult, Reinhold Mueller
  • Patent number: 6696443
    Abstract: Certain compounds which contain a piperidine moiety flanked by aryl groups are inhibitors of p38-&agr; kinase and thus useful in the treatment of a variety of conditions characterized by inappropriate p38-&agr; kinase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Scios, Inc.
    Inventors: Babu Mavunkel, Sundeep Dugar, Gregory Luedtke, Xuefei Tan, Glenn McEnroe
  • Patent number: 6696463
    Abstract: The invention relates to 3-heteroarylidenyl-2-azaindolinone compounds of the formula: wherein, A is selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur; only one of B, D, E, F or G is nitrogen; Z is selected from the group consisting of oxygen, sulfur and NR11; or physiologically acceptable salts thereof; and wherein the groups R1-R7 are defined herein. The 3-heteroarylidenyl-2-azaindolinone compounds of the preferred embodiments of the present invention have improved hydrosolubility and are expected to modulate the activity of protein tyrosine kinases. The 3-heteroarylidenyl-2-azaindolinone compounds of the preferred embodiments of the present invention should be useful in the prevention and treatment of protein tyrosine kinase related cellular disorders such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Sugen, Inc.
    Inventors: Peng Cho Tang, Li Sun, Gerald McMahon
  • Patent number: 6696439
    Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted furo[3,2-b]pyridine compounds of formula I: or a pharmaceutical acid addition salt thereof; where; R is E—D is C═CH or CH—CH2; R1 is hydrogen or C1-C4 alkyl; R2 is hydrogen, halo, hydroxy, —NR3R4, —SR3, —C(O)R3, —C(O)MR3R4, —NR3SO2R5, —NHC(Q)NR3R4, —NHC(O)OR3, or —NR3C(O)R5; R3, R4, and R5 are independently hydrogen, C1-C4 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, C2-C6 alkynyl, or —(CH2)naryl; or R3 and R4 combine, together with the nitrogen to which they are attached, form a pyrrolidine, piperidine, piperazine, 4-substituted piperazine, morpholine, or thiomorpholine ring; n is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6; and Q is O or S. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Sandra Ann Filla, Brian Michael Mathes
  • Patent number: 6693099
    Abstract: Substituted heterocyclic compounds for treating multidrug resistance are disclosed. Compositions and methods of use for the substituted heterocyclic compounds are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Charles Raymond Degenhardt, David Joseph Eickhoff
  • Patent number: 6693092
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel arylphenyl-substituted cyclic ketoenols of the formula (I) in which X represents halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy, alkylthio, alkylsulphinyl, alkylsulphonyl, halogenoalkyl, halogenoalkoxy, halogenoalkenyloxy, nitro, cyano or in each case optionally substituted phenyl, phenoxy, phenylthio, phenylalkoxy or phenylalkylthio, Y represents in each case optionally substituted cycloalkyl, aryl or hetaryl, W and Y independently of one another each represent hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy, halogenoalkyl, halogenoalkoxy, halogenoalkenyloxy, nitro or cyano, CKE represents one of the groups  in which A, B, D, G and Q1 to Q6 are each as defined in the description, to a plurality of processes for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Folker Lieb, Reiner Fischer, Alan Graff, Udo Schneider, Thomas Bretshneider, Christoph Erdelen, Wolfram Andersch, Mark Wilhelm Drewes, Markus Dollinger, Ingo Wetcholowsky, Randy Allen Myers
  • Patent number: 6692562
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process of preparing a perylene pigment compositions containing a reactive co-precipitated blend of (1) about 75 to about 99.9 mol %, relative to the pigment composition, of a compound having the formula (I)  wherein R is hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C5-C8 cycloalkyl, C7-C16 aralkyl, or C6-C10 aryl, A is C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, a sulfonyl group, amino, ammonium, hydroxy, nitro, or halogen, and m is zero or a number from 1 to 8; and (2) about 0.1 to about 25 mol %, relative to the pigment composition, of a perylene dicarboxamidine imide having the formula (II)  wherein W is optionally substituted or modified C2-C3 alkylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Sun Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory R. Schulz
  • Patent number: 6693193
    Abstract: A process of preparing a compound of the formula (I) wherein B is chosen from OH, NH2, NHR, H or halogen; D is chosen from OH, NH2, NHR, H halogen or SCH3; R is an optionally substituted alkyl, aralkyl or aryl group; and Z is selected from OH, hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, SQ or OQ, Q is an optionally substituted all, aralkyl or aryl group; or a tautomer thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; or an ester thereof; or a prodrug thereof, which comprises reacting a compound of the formula (II)  with an anion produced by abstraction of the bromine or iodine atom from a compound of formula (XIX),  to form a compound of formula (XX) The compound of formula (XX) is N- and O-deprotected to obtain the compound of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignees: Industrial Research Limited, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yesheva University
    Inventors: Richard Hubert Furneaux, Peter Charles Tyler, Vern L. Schramm
  • Patent number: 6689772
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds of Formula (I), having the structure where T, Z, X, A, R1, R2a, R2b, R2c, R3, R4, and n are defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof which are useful as antineoplastic agents and in the treatment of osteoporosis and polycystic kidney disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Diane Harris Boschelli, Yanong Wang, Frank Charles Boschelli, Dan Maarten Berger, Nan Zhang, Dennis William Powell, Fei Ye, Ayako Yamashita, Frenel Fils DeMorin, Biqi Wu, Hwei-Ru Tsou, Elsebe Geraldine Overbeek-Klumpers, Allan Wissner
  • Patent number: 6689770
    Abstract: The present application describes aryl sulfonyls of formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug forms thereof, wherein D, E, and M are defined below, are effective factor Xa inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharma Company
    Inventors: Ruth R. Wexler, Irina C. Jacobson
  • Patent number: 6689769
    Abstract: Substituted quinolone derivatives in which an oxazolidinone, isoxazolinone, or isoxazoline is covalently bonded to a quinolone, methods of using the quinolone derivatives, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the quinolone derivatives are disclosed. Methods of synthesizing these substituted quinolone derivatives are also disclosed, and in particular a method of manufacturing a 7-(2-oxo-1,3-oxazolidin-3-yl)aryl-3-quinolinecarboxylic acid by condensing a 4-(2-oxo-1,3-oxazolidin-5-yl)aryl boronic acid with a 7-halo-quinolone derivative. The quinolone derivatives possess antibacterial activity, and are effective against a number of human and veterinary pathogens in the treatment of bacterial diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Mikhail F. Gordeev, Dinesh V. Patel, Michael R. Barbachyn, James R. Gage
  • Patent number: 6689773
    Abstract: Novel uracil substituted phenyl sulfamoyl carboxamides I and salts thereof, where A=oxygen or sulfur; X1=H, halogen, C1-C4-alkyl; X2=H, CN, CS—NH2, halogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl; X3=H, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxyalkyl, C3-C7-cycloalkyl, C3-C6-alkenyl, C3-C6-alkynyl, optionally substituted benzyl; R1, R2=H, halogen, optionally substituted hydroxy, C1-C10-alkyl, C2-C10-alkenyl, C3-C10-alkynyl, C3-C7-cycloalkyl, phenyl, benzyl or C5-C7-cycloalkenyl, or R1+R2 together with the atom to which they are attached form a 3- to 7-membered heterocyclic ring; Q is selected from Q1 to Q40 as defined in the description. Use: As herbicides; for the desiccation/defoliation of plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marianne Carlsen, Michael Anthony Guaciaro, James Jan Takasugi
  • Patent number: 6689780
    Abstract: This application relates to heteroaromatic amides (or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof) as defined herein, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and its use as an inhibitor of factor Xa, as well as a process for its preparation and intermediates therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Douglas Wade Beight, Trelia Joyce Craft, Jeffry Bernard Franciskovich, Theodore Goodson, Jr., Steven Edward Hall, David Kent Herron, Sajan Joseph, Valentine Joseph Klimkowski, Jeffrey Alan Kyle, John Joseph Masters, David Mendel, Guy Milot, Marta Maria Piñeiro-Nuñez, Jason Scott Sawyer, Robert Theodore Shuman, Gerald Floyd Smith, Anne Louise Tebbe, Jennifer Marie Tinsley, Leonard Crayton Weir, James Howard Wikel, Michael Robert Wiley, Ying Kwong Yee
  • Patent number: 6689806
    Abstract: The invention relates to certain indolinone compounds, their method of synthesis, and a combinatorial library consisting of the indolinone compounds of the invention. The invention also relates to methods of modulating the function of protein kinases using indolinone compounds of the invention and methods of treating diseases by modulating the function of protein kinases and related signal transduction pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Sugen, Inc.
    Inventors: Peng Cho Tang, Li Sun, Gerald McMahon, Todd Anthony Miller, Shahrzad Shirazian, Chung Chen Wei, G. Davis Harris, Jr., Xiaoyuan Li, Congxin Liang
  • Patent number: 6689782
    Abstract: This invention relates to compounds that are efflux pump inhibitors and therefore are useful as potentiators of anti-fungal agents for the treatment of infections caused by fungi that employ an efflux pump resistance mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Essential Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Watkins, Remy Lemoine, Aesop Cho, Monica Palme
  • Patent number: 6689801
    Abstract: Novel thiol derivatives of formula I or of the formula Ia wherein the variables have the meanings as defined hereinbefore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Cynthia A. Fink, Faribroz Firooznia
  • Patent number: 6689781
    Abstract: Disclosed are a series of phenylalanine derivatives, to compositions containing them, to processes for their preparation, and to their use in medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignees: Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., American Home Products Corporation
    Inventors: Andrei W. Konradi, Michael A. Pleiss, Eugene D. Thorsett, Susan Ashwell, Gregory S. Welmaker, Anthony Kreft, Dimitrios Sarantakis, Darren B. Dressen, Francine S. Grant, Christopher Semko, Ying-Zi Xu
  • Patent number: 6689804
    Abstract: A method for treating inflammatory and immune cell-mediated diseases by the administration of compounds of the formula I Exemplary are:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiang-Ping Wu, Terence Alfred Kelly, Rene Lemieux, Daniel R. Goldberg, Jonathan Emilian Emeigh, Ronald John Sorcek