Patents Represented by Attorney David Rubin
  • Patent number: 8273755
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel 4-methylpyridopyrimidinone compounds of Formula (I), and to salts thereof, their synthesis, and their use as inhibitors of phosphoinositide 3-kinase alpha (PI3-K?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc
    Inventors: Hengmiao Cheng, Dilip Bhumralkar, Klaus Ruprecht Dress, Jacqui Elizabeth Hoffman, Mary Catherine Johnson, Robert Steven Kania, Phuong Thi Quy Le, Mitchell David Nambu, Mason Alan Pairish, Michael Bruno Plewe, Khanh Tuan Tran
  • Patent number: 8039469
    Abstract: Compounds of formula I wherein: R1 is and R2, R4, and R6-9 are defined herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof. These compounds inhibit PI3 kinase and mTOR, and may be used to treat diseases mediated by PI3 kinase and mTOR, such as a variety of cancers. Methods for making and using the compounds of this invention are disclosed. Various compositions containing the compounds of this invention are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Aranapakam Mudumbai Venkatesan, Zecheng Chen, Christoph Martin Dehnhardt, Osvaldo dos Santos, Efren Guillermo Delos Santos, Arie Zask, Jeroen Cunera Verheijen, Joshua Aaron Kaplan, David James Richard, Semiramis Ayral-Kaloustian, Tarek Suhayl Mansour, Ariamala Gopalsamy, Kevin Joseph Curran, Mengxiao Shi
  • Patent number: 8022216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to maleate salt forms of (E)-N-{4-[3-chloro-4-(2-pyridinylmethoxy)anilino]-3-cyano-7-ethoxy-6-quinolinyl}-4-(dimethylamino)-2-butenamide, methods of preparing crystalline maleate salt forms, the associated compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same. The maleate salts are useful in treating cancers, particularly those affected by kinases of the epidermal growth factor receptor family.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Qinghong Lu, Mannching Sherry Ku, Warren Chew, Gloria Cheal, Anthony F. Hadfield, Mahmoud Mirmehrabi
  • Patent number: 7919625
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula: wherein: n is an integer from 1-3; X is N, CH, provided that when X is N, n is 2 or 3; R is alkyl of 1 to 3 carbon atoms; R1 is 2,4-diCl, 5-OMe; 2,4-diCl; 3,4,5-tri-OMe; 2-Cl, 5-OMe; 2-Me, 5-OMe; 2,4-di-Me; 2,4-diMe-5-OMe, 2,4-diCl, 5-OEt; R2 is alkyl of 1 to 2 carbon atoms, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Frank Boschelli, Jennifer M. Golas, Kim T. Arndt
  • Patent number: 7915266
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods for treating or inhibiting cancers in a mammal in need thereof, which comprises administering an effective amount of a 6-Aryl-7-halo-imidazo[1,2 -a]pyrimidine compound of the formula: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Wyeth Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Nan Zhang, Semiramis Ayral-Kaloustian
  • Patent number: 7799915
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Fuk-Wah Sum, Dennis William Powell, Yixian Zhang, Lijing Chen, Scott Lee Kincaid, Lee Dalton Jennings, Yongbo Hu, Adam Matthew Gilbert, Matthew Gregory Bursavich
  • Patent number: 7767678
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a crystalline 4-[(2,4-dichloro-5-methoxyphenyl)amino]-6-methoxy-7-[3-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)propoxy]-3-quinolinecarbonitrile monohydrate having an x-ray diffraction pattern wherein 2? angles (°) of significant peaks are at about: 9.19, 11.48, 14.32, 19.16, 19.45, 20.46, 21.29, 22.33, 23.96, 24.95, 25.29, 25.84, 26.55, 27.61, and 29.51, and a transition temperature of about 109° C. to about 115° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Marc Sadler Tesconi, Gregg Feigelson, Henry Strong, Hong Wen
  • Patent number: 7767671
    Abstract: This invention provides a compound of Formula 1 where Ar, X, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof useful in the prevention or inhibition of diseases associated with the Ras/Raf/MEK signaling cascade in a mammal, such as neoplasms, strokes, osteoporosis, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory disease, polycystic kidney disease, and colonic polyps, and methods of making the compounds of formula 1 and intermediates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Dan Maarten Berger, Dennis William Powell, Biqi Wu
  • Patent number: 7666901
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, and R8 are defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Arie Zask, Ping Cai, Jianxin Gu, Joshua Kaplan, Ker Yu, Tianmin Zhu
  • Patent number: 7488754
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treating, inhibiting the progression of, or eradicating polycystic kidney disease of in a patient in need thereof which comprises providing to said patient an effective amount of a TACE inhibitor compound alone or in combination with an effective amount of an EGF receptor kinase inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Philip Frost, Jeremy I. Levin
  • Patent number: 7479561
    Abstract: This invention relates to compounds having the structure of Formula I wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Diane Harris Boschelli, Jay Thomas Afragola, Asaf Alimardanov, Biqi Wu
  • Patent number: 7449460
    Abstract: This invention provides a compound of Formula 1 where Ar, X, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof useful in the prevention or inhibition of diseases associated with the Ras/Raf/MEK signaling cascade in a mammal, such as neoplasms, strokes, osteoporosis, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory disease, polycystic kidney disease, and colonic polyps, and methods of making the compounds of formula 1 and intermediates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Dan Maarten Berger, Dennis William Powell, Biqi Wu
  • Patent number: 7285563
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I); pharmaceutically acceptable salts and N-oxides thereof in which A, B, D and E are C or N with the proviso that one or more are N, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are simple substituents, n is 0-3 and y is an aryl, heteroaryl, carbocyclyl or fused-carbocyclyl group; as VR-1 antagonists for treating conditions or diseases in which pain and/or inflammation predominates; the use of the same for manufacturing medicaments, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and methods of treatment utilizing them
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Inventors: Rebecca Elizabeth Brown, Victoria Alexandra Doughty, Gregory John Hollingworth, A. Brian Jones, Matthew John Lindon, Christopher Richard Moyes, Lauren Rogers
  • Patent number: 7253190
    Abstract: Tetrazole compounds substituted directly, or by a bridge, with a heteroaryl moiety containing N adjacent to the point of connection of the heteroaryl, are mGluR5 modulators useful in the treatment of psychiatric and mood disorders such as, for example, schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, and panic, as well as in the treatment of pain and other diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. P. Cosford, Chixu Chen, Thomas S. Reger, Jeffrey R. Roppe, Nicholas D. Smith
  • Patent number: 7247725
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of the formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R11, R12, W, X, and n are defined herein, which are useful as modulators of chemokine receptor activity. In particular, these compounds are useful as modulators of the chemokine receptor CCR-2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Gabor Butora, Alexander Pasternak, Lihu Yang, Changyou Zhou
  • Patent number: 7235545
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of Formula I: and Formula II: (where variables R1, R2, R3, R4, A, B, G, J, Q, T, U, V, W, X and Y are as defined herein) useful as antagonists of CGRP receptors and useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the CGRP is involved, such as headache, migraine and cluster headache. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which CGRP is involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Burgey, Zhengwu J. Deng, Diem N. Nguyen, Daniel V. Paone, Anthony W. Shaw, Theresa M. Williams
  • Patent number: 7105548
    Abstract: Triazole compounds substituted directly, or by a bridge, with a heteroaryl moiety containing N adjacent to the point of connection of the heteroaryl which are metabotropic glutamate receptor—subtype 5 (“mGluR5”) modulators useful in the treatment of psychiatric and mood disorders such as, for example, schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and panic, as well as in the treatment of pain, Parkinson's disease, cognitive dysfunction, epilepsy, circadian rhythm disorders, drug addiction, drug abuse, drug withdrawal and other diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. P. Cosford, Petpiboon Prasit, Jeffrey R. Roppe, Nicholas D. Smith, Lida R. Tehrani
  • Patent number: 6956049
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there are provided methods of modulating the activity of excitatory amino acid receptors using a specifically defined class of heterocyclic compounds. In one embodiment, there are provided methods of modulating metabotropic glutamate receptors. The present invention also discloses methods of treating disease using heterocyclic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. P. Cosford, Ian A. McDonald, Stephen D. Hess, Mark A. Varney
  • Patent number: 6774138
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a novel class of heterocyclic compounds. Compounds of the invention contain a substituted, unsaturated five, six or seven membered heterocyclic ring that includes at least one nitrogen atom and at least one carbon atom. The ring additionally includes three, four or five atoms independently selected from carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen atoms. The heterocyclic ring has at least one substituent located at a ring position adjacent to a ring nitrogen atom. This mandatory substituent of the ring includes a moiety (B), linked to the heterocyclic ring via a carbon-carbon double bond, a carbon-carbon triple bond or an azo group. The mandatory substituent is positioned adjacent to the ring nitrogen atom. Invention compounds are capable of a wide variety of uses. For example heterocyclic compounds can act to modulate physiological processes by functioning as agonists and antagonists of receptors in the nervous system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas David Peter Cosford, Leo Solomon Bleicher, Jean-Michel Andre Vernier, Rowena V. Cube, Edwin Schweiger, Ian McDonald
  • Patent number: 6632823
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a novel class of substituted pyridine compounds (optionally containing ether, ester, amide, ketone or thioether substitutions) that promote the release of ligands involved in neurotransmission have been discovered. In a particular aspect compounds of the present invention are capable of modulating acetylcholine receptors. The compounds of the present invention are capable of modulating acetylcholine receptors. Invention compounds may act as agonists, partial agonists, antagonists or allosteric modulators of acetylcholine receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Vernier, Nicholas D. P. Cosford, Ian A. McDonald