Patents Represented by Attorney Michael G. Smith
  • Patent number: 8349852
    Abstract: There is described a new polymorphic form of 4-(7-Hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile and a method of preparing it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Weichun Chen, Hong-Yong Kim, Jessica Liang, Michael Mutz, Mahavir Prashad, Christopher Towler, Ruoqiu Wu
  • Patent number: 8329732
    Abstract: New compounds, compositions and methods of inhibition of Provirus Integration of Maloney Kinase (PIM kinase) activity associated with tumorigenesis in a human or animal subject are provided. In certain embodiments, the compounds and compositions are effective to inhibit the activity of at least one PIM kinase. The new compounds and compositions may be used either alone or in combination with at least one additional agent for the treatment of a serine/threonine kinase- or receptor tyrosine kinase-mediated disorder, such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Matthew T. Burger, Wooseok Han, Jiong Lan, Gisele Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 8318791
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new substituted imidazole compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters or prodrugs thereof, compositions of the new compounds together with pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, and uses of the new compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Weibo Wang, Paul A. Barsanti, Yia Xia, Rustum Boyce, Sabina Pecchi, Nathan Brammeier, Megan C. Phillips, Kris Mendenhall, Kelly Wayman, Liana Marie Lagniton, Ryan Constantine, Hong Yang, Elizabeth Mieuli, Savithri Ramurthy, Elisa Jazan, Anu Sharma, Rama Jain, Sharadha Subramanian, Paul A. Renhowe, Kenneth W. Bair, David Duhl, Annette Walter, Tinya Abrams, Kay Huh, Eric Martin, Mark Knapp, Vincent P. Le
  • Patent number: 8293769
    Abstract: Benzoxazole and benzothiazole compounds and their oxides, esters, prodrugs, solvates, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are disclosed. Compositions of the compounds, either alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and uses of the compounds, either alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent are also disclosed. The embodiments are useful for inhibiting cellular proliferation, inhibiting the growth and/or metathesis of tumors, treating or preventing cancer, treating or preventing degenerating bone diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, and/or inhibiting molecules such as CSF 1R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Simon C. Ng, Keith B. Pfister, Martin Sendzik, James Sutton, Allan S. Wagman, Marion Wiesmann
  • Patent number: 8273900
    Abstract: There are described cyclohexyl amide derivatives useful as corticotropin releasing factor (CRF1) receptor antagonists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: David Beattie, Anny-Odile Colson, Andrew James Culshaw, Lisa Sharp, Emily Stanley, Lilya Sviridenko
  • Patent number: 8268834
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a compound of formula (I) or a salt, suitably a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or solvate thereof, wherein the groups R1, R2, Ar?, A and Y are defined in the description, to compositions and use of the compounds in the treatment of inflammatory and allergic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Ian Bruce, Emma Budd, Lee Edwards, Catherine Howsham
  • Patent number: 8252832
    Abstract: The invention provides novel compounds having a substituted imidazole ring, and methods of using such compounds for the treatment of certain disorders such as hematological cancers and solid tumors. The compounds of the invention are tri-substituted imidazole derivatives that inhibit KSP. These compounds are also useful for the treatment of drug resistant tumors, such as solid tumors that express elevated levels of P-glycoprotein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Tinya Abrams, Paul Barsanti, David Duhl, Michel Faure, Paul A. Renhowe, Annette Olga Walter
  • Patent number: 8242260
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I or II: wherein R1, R1b, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are defined herein. The compounds of Formula (I) or (II) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are useful for the treatment of B-Raf-associated diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Abran Q. Costales, Shenlin Huang, Jeff Xianming Jin, Zuosheng Liu, Sabina Pecchi, Daniel Poon, John Tellew, Qiong Zhang
  • Patent number: 8173689
    Abstract: Benzoxazole and benzothiazole compounds and the stereoisomers, tautomers, solvates, oxides, esters, and prodrugs thereof and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are disclosed. Compositions of the compounds, either alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and uses of the compounds, either alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent are also disclosed. The embodiments are useful for inhibiting cellular proliferation, inhibiting the growth and/or metathesis of tumors, treating or preventing cancer, treating or preventing degenerating bone diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, and/or inhibiting molecules such as CSF-1R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: James C. Sutton, Marion Wiesmann
  • Patent number: 8168794
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new compounds of Formulas I and II, their tautomers, stereoisomers and polymorphs, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, metabolites or prodrugs thereof, compositions of the new compounds together with pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, and uses of the new compounds, either alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, in the inhibition of Pim kinase activity and/or the prophylaxis or treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Matthew Burger, Jiong Lan, Mika Lindvall, Gisele Nishiguchi, Michelle Tetalman
  • Patent number: 8163785
    Abstract: There are described 4-difluoromethoxyphenyl pyrazolo[5.1-b]oxazole derivatives of Formula I: which are useful as corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) receptor antagonists and as pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Nicholas James Devereux, Jeffrey McKenna
  • Patent number: 8156945
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations an abrasive exterior is attached to a body about obtuse to a right-angle of a trapezoid geometry of the body. In some implementations, the body includes a pocket along a longitudinal axis of the body and in some implementations the body includes a groove along a lateral axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Inventors: Karmen C. Hart, Carolyn L. Jones
  • Patent number: 8129358
    Abstract: Disclosed are new substituted pyrazole and triazole compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters or prodrugs thereof, compositions of the derivatives together with pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, and uses thereof:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Yi Xia, Kris G. Mendenhall, Paul A. Barsanti, Annette O. Walter, David Duhl, Paul A. Renhowe
  • Patent number: 8129394
    Abstract: Novel imidazole compounds of the general formula are disclosed, wherein R1 and R2 comprise heteroaryl groups. These compounds and compositions containing them are useful in methods to treat Raf kinase-mediated disorders such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Zilin Hunag, Jeff Jin, Timothy Machajewski, William R. Antonios-McCrea, Maureen McKenna, Daniel Poon, Paul A. Renhowe, Martin Sendzik, Cynthia Shafer, Aaron Smith, Yongjin Xu, Qiong Zhang, Zheng Chen
  • Patent number: 8098060
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations determine the amplitude of an amplitude modulated signal, modulated by the position of an object being sensed. In some aspects, the apparatus accepts an excitation signal and the amplitude modulated signal and divides the amplitude modulated by the excitation signal to produce an output signal that is proportional to the position of the object being sensed. In other aspects, the division is performed only when the excitation signal is non-zero, such as close to the peaks in the excitation signal. In other aspects, the excitation signal and amplitude modulated signal are degraded due to an air gap and the degraded signals are used to correct for amplitude fluctuations due to the air gap, and produce an output signal, tolerant of the air gaps, that is proportional to the position of the object being sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: David E. Howard, Dean C. Alhorn, Dennis A. Smith, Kenneth R. Dutton
  • Patent number: 8053574
    Abstract: Phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase inhibitor compounds, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and prodrugs thereof; compositions of the new compounds, either alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; and uses of the new compounds, either alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, in the prophylaxis or treatment of proliferative diseases characterized by the abnormal activity of growth factors, protein serine/threonine kinases, and phospholipid kinases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Ian Bruce, Darren Mark Legrand, James Dale, Thomas Anthony Hunt
  • Patent number: 8008335
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new indole and benzimidazole compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters or prodrugs thereof, compositions of the new compounds together with pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, and uses of the new compounds. The compounds of the invention have the following general formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Rustum S. Boyce, Yi Xia, Hongyan Guo, Kris G. Mendenhall, Annette O. Walter, Weibo Wang
  • Patent number: 7997510
    Abstract: In some embodiments a propulsion system includes a thrust chamber having an inside wall, an expansion nozzle mounted to the thrust chamber and having an interior and having an exterior, a main propellant injector mounted to the thrust chamber to inject a fluid in the interior of the thrust chamber, the fluid comprising oxidizer, fuel and internal film coolant, the internal film coolant ranging from about 1% to about 5% of the fluid, limited coolant tubing circumscribing the exterior of the expansion nozzle to circulate an external coolant, and an injector mounted to the expansion nozzle to inject the external coolant in the interior of the expansion nozzle, the external convective coolant about 2.5% of the fluid. The system operates at lower temperatures while having conventional amounts of thrust, in which the thrust chamber can be made of thin walls of lower cost conventional metals with simple coolant tube construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas Clayton Pavia, James Robert Grote
  • Patent number: 7998972
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of imidazoquinolines and salts thereof in the treatment of protein kinase dependent diseases and for the manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment of said diseases, imidazoquinolines for use in the treatment of protein kinase dependent diseases, a method of treatment against said diseases, comprising administering the imidazoloquinolines to a warm-blooded animal, especially a human, pharmaceutical preparations comprising an imidazoquinoline, especially for the treatment of a protein kinase dependent disease, novel imidazoquinolines, and a process for the preparation of the novel imidazoquinolines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Carlos Garcia-Echeverria, Hans-Georg Capraro, Pascal Furet
  • Patent number: 7994203
    Abstract: There are described pyrazolo[5.1-b]oxazole derivatives useful as corticotropin releasing factor (CRF1) receptor antagonists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Ian Bruce, Andrew James Culshaw, Nicholas James Devereux, François Gessier, Jeffrey McKenna, James Neef, Helen Elizabeth Oakman