Patents Assigned to AstraZeneca
  • Patent number: 7947676
    Abstract: The invention concerns compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in the text for use in the production of an anti proliferative effect which effect is produced alone or in part by inhibiting erbB2 receptor tyrosine kinase in a warm blooded animal such as man.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Bernard Christophe Barlaam, Richard Ducray, Jason Grant Kettle
  • Patent number: 7946449
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blister pack device for dispensing a dosage unit from a blister pack. The blister pack has at least one blister and a lid foil. The device comprises a first arm and a second lever arm hingedly connected to each other, the first arm comprises an aperture through which the dosage unit can be ejected. The lever arm comprises a protruding member for pressing out a dosage unit from the blister when the lever arm is lowered down onto the blister positioned on the first arm. The protruding member comprises a first section for applying a pressing force on the dosage unit inside the blister to initiate the breaking of the lid foil of the blister pack and a second section for distributing the pressing force over the dosage unit and for ejecting the dosage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Maria Benktzon, Sofia Jacobsson, Anders Löfgren, Thomas Nilsson, Ulrika Vejbrink
  • Publication number: 20110118275
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen or methyl, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, pharmaceutical formulations containing said compound, to the use of said active compound in therapy, as well as intermediates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Kristofer Ahlin, Per I. ARVIDSSON, Ulrika YNGVE, Fernando HUERTA
  • Publication number: 20110118238
    Abstract: This invention relates to chemical compounds of the formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which possess inhibitory activity against the spindle checkpoint kinase: Tyrosine Threonine Kinase (TTK)/monopolar spindle 1 (Mps1) and are accordingly useful for their anti-cancer effect in a warm-blooded animal such as man. The invention also relates to processes for the manufacture of said chemical compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and to their use in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of conditions mediated by TTK/Mps1, for use either alone or in combination with other anti-pro liferative agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: David Michael Andrews, Clifford David Jones, Iain Simpson, Richard Andrew Ward
  • Patent number: 7943625
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound according to Formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from C1-C6 alkyl, and said C1-C6 alkyl is substituted with C1-C6 alkoxy; and at least one of said C1-C6 alkyl or said C1-C6 alkoxy is branched; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, solvate or solvate of a salt thereof, as well as, to compositions containing at least one compound according to Formula (I) and methods of treating at least one disease or condition therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventor: Anna-Karin Tidén
  • Patent number: 7943607
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), wherein R1, R4, HET-1 and HET-2 are as described in the specification, and their salts and pro-drugs, are activators of glucokinase (GLK) and are thereby useful in the treatment of, for example, type 2 diabetes. Processes for preparing compounds of formula (I) are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Darren McKerrecher, Kurt Gordon Pike, Michael James Waring
  • Patent number: 7943768
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) P—W—C(?X)-L-Q??(I) wherein P is an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group; W is an optionally substituted 6 or 7-membered aliphatic ring comprising ring atoms Y1 and Y2 independently selected from Oxygen and Nitrogen, X is selected from Oxygen, Nitrogen and Sulphur; L is an optional C1-4 linker; and Q is an optionally substituted 4-7 membered aliphatic ring: for use in the treatment of chemokine mediated diseases or disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Justin Fairfield Bower, Peter Wedderburn Kenny, Jeffrey Philip Poyser
  • Publication number: 20110112144
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of preparing substituted thiophenes, which are useful for the treatment and prevention of cancers. Also disclosed are substituted thiophenes made by the methods disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Matthew Ball, Martin Francis Jones, Fiona Ruth Kenley, David John Pittam
  • Publication number: 20110105537
    Abstract: There are disclosed novel 5,7-disubstituted [1,3]thiazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidin-2(3H)-one derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and n are as defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, together with processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and their use in therapy. The compounds of formula (I) are CX3CR1 receptor antagonists and are thereby particularly useful in the treatment or prophylaxis of neurodegenerative disorders, demyelinating disease, cardio- and cerebrovascular atherosclerotic disorders, peripheral artery disease, rheumatoid arthritis, pulmonary diseases such as COPD, asthma or pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Rolf Johansson, Sofia Karlström, Annika Kers, Gunnar Nordvall, Tobias Rein, Can Slivo
  • Publication number: 20110105449
    Abstract: The invention provides dry powder pharmaceutical formulations comprising an ascorbic acid derivative that demonstrate good inhalation performance and dry powder inhalers containing them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA R&D
    Inventor: Jan Trofast
  • Patent number: 7935703
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof: wherein Ar1, Ar2, A, X, Y, m, n and R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as described in the specification, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical formulations comprising them and their use in therapy, particularly in the therapy of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Abdelmalik Slassi, Methvin Isaac, Jalaj Arora, Dean Brown
  • Publication number: 20110098271
    Abstract: The invention concerns chromenone derivatives of Formula I or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, n and R9 has any of the meanings defined hereinbefore in the description; processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Bernard Christophe BARLAAM, Sebastien Louis DEGORCE, Christine Marie Paul LAMBERT-VAN DER BREMPT, Remy Robert MORGENTIN, Patrick PLE
  • Publication number: 20110097321
    Abstract: The invention relates to agents which possess anti-angiogenic activity and are accordingly useful in methods of treatment of disease states associated with angiogenesis in the animal or human body. More specifically the invention concerns a combination of an antagonist of the biological activity of Angiopoietin-2 and an antagonist of the biological activity of VEGF-A, and/or KDR, and/or Flt1, and uses of such antagonists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: David Charles BLAKEY, Jeffrey Lester BROWN, Stephen Charles EMERY
  • Publication number: 20110098292
    Abstract: The present invention provides new compounds of formula (I) as well as a process for their preparation and new intermediates used therein, pharmaceutical formulations containing said therapeutically active compounds and to the use of said active compounds in therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Jonas Malmstrom, Jenny Viklund
  • Patent number: 7932263
    Abstract: A combination comprising candesartan and rosuvastatin for the prevention or treatment of arteriosclerosis and for the prevention of cardiovascular events is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventor: Jay Lal Mehta
  • Publication number: 20110092495
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds that demonstrate antibacterial activity, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them as the active ingredient, to their use as medicaments and to their use in the manufacture of medicaments for use in the treatment of bacterial infections in warm-blooded animals such as humans. In particular this invention relates to compounds useful for the treatment of bacterial infections in warm-blooded animals such as humans, more particularly to the use of these compounds in the manufacture of medicaments for use in the treatment of bacterial infections in warm-blooded animals such as humans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Gloria Breault, Charles Joseph Eyermann, Bolin Geng, Marshall Morningstar, Folkert Reck
  • Publication number: 20110092519
    Abstract: There are disclosed novel 5-substituted 7-amino-[1,3]thiazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidine derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, together with processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and their use in therapy. The compounds of formula (I) are CX3CR1 receptor antagonists and are thereby particularly useful in the treatment or prophylaxis of neurodegenerative disorders, demyelinating disease, cardio- and cerebrovascular atherosclerotic disorders, peripheral artery disease, rheumatoid arthritis, pulmonary diseases such as COPD, asthma or pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Gunnar Nordvall, Colin Ray, Tobias Rein, Daniel Sohn
  • Publication number: 20110092526
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I): and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, wherein the variable groups are defined within; their use in the inhibition of 11?HSD1, processes for making them and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them are also described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Stuart Norman Lile Bennett, Frederick Woolf Goldberg, Andrew Leach, Paul Robert Owen Whittamore, Pernilla Sörme
  • Patent number: 7928225
    Abstract: There is provided compounds of formula I, wherein R1, R2, R3, R41 to R46, X, Y and Z have meanings given in the description, which compounds are useful in the prophylaxis and in the treatment of arrhythmias, in particular atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Annika Björe, David Cladingboel, Gareth Ensor, Adam Herring, Johan Kajanus, Robert Lundqvist, Christina Olsson, Carl-Gustav Sigfridsson, Gert Strandlund
  • Patent number: RE42353
    Abstract: The invention relates to quinazoline derivatives of formula (1) wherein m is an integer from 1 to 2; R1 represents hydrogen, hydroxy, halogeno, nitro, trifluoromethyl, cyano, C1-3alkyl, C1-3alkoxy, C1-3alkylthio, or —NR5R6 (wherein R5 and R6, which may be the same or different, each represents hydrogen or C1-3alkyl); R2 represents hydrogen, hydroxy, halogeno, methoxy, amino or nitro; R3 represents hydroxy, halogeno, C1-3alkyl, C1-3alkoxy, C1-3alkanoyloxy, trifluoromethyl, cyano, amino or nitro; X1 represents —O—, —CH2—, —S—, —SO—, —SO2—, —NR7CO—, —CONR8—, —SO2NR9—, —NR10SO2— or —NR11— (wherein R7, R8, R9, R10 and R11 each independently represents hydrogen, C1-3alkyl or C1-3alkoxyC2-3alkyl); R4 represents an optionally substituted 5 or 6 membered saturated carbocyclic or heterocyclic group or a group which is alkenyl, alkynyl or optionally substituted alkyl, which alkyl group may contain a heteroatom linking group, which alkenyl, alkynyl or alkyl group may carry a terminal optionally substituted group sele
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca UK Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Peter Thomas, Craig Johnstone, Edward Clayton, Elaine Sophie Elizabeth Stokes, Jean-Jacques Marcel Lohmann, Laurent Francois Andre Hennequin