Patents Assigned to Ciba-Geigy Corporation
  • Patent number: 6410272
    Abstract: A method for the production and secretion of proteins with hirudin activity in an eukaryotic host organism is provided. There are also provided hybrid vectors comprising a DNA sequence encoding a signal peptide upstream of and in reading frame with the structural gene for desulphatohirudin, and eukaryotic host organisms transformed with said hybrid vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation a Corp. of New York
    Inventors: Bernd Meyhack, Walter Märki, Jutta Heim
  • Publication number: 20010025793
    Abstract: In a method for controlling sample introduction in microcolumn separation techniques, more particularly in capillary electrophoresis (CE), where a sample is injected as a sample plug into a sampling device which comprises at least a channel for the electrolyte buffer and a supply and drain channel for the sample. The supply and drain channels discharge into the electolyte channel at respective supply and drain ports. The distance between the supply port and the drain port geometrically defines a sample volume. The injection of the sample plug into the electrolyte channel is accomplished electrokinetically by applying an electric field across the supply and drain channels for a time at least long enough that the sample component having the lowest electrophoretic mobility is contained within the geometrically defined volume. The supply and drain channels each are inclined to the electrolyte channel. Means are provided for electrokinetically injecting the sample into the sample volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Applicant: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Manz, D. Jed Harrison, Carlo S. Effenhauser
  • Publication number: 20010023824
    Abstract: In a method for controlling sample introduction in microcolumn separation techniques, more particularly in capillary electrophoresis (CE), where a sample is injected as a sample plug into a sampling device which comprises at least a channel for the electrolyte buffer and a supply and drain channel for the sample. The supply and drain channels discharge into the electolyte channel at respective supply and drain ports. The distance between the supply port and the drain port geometrically defines a sample volume. The injection of the sample plug into the electrolyte channel is accomplished electrokinetically by applying an electric field across the supply and drain channels for a time at least long enough that the sample component having the lowest electrophoretic mobility is contained within the geometrically defined volume. The supply and drain channels each are inclined to the electrolyte channel. Means are provided for electrokinetically injecting the sample into the sample volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Manz, D. Jed Harrison, Carlo S. Effenhauser
  • Publication number: 20010004963
    Abstract: In a method for controlling sample introduction in microcolumn separation techniques, more particularly in capillary electrophoresis (CE), where a sample is injected as a sample plug into a sampling device which comprises at least a channel for the electrolyte buffer and a supply and drain channel for the sample. The supply and drain channels discharge into the electolyte channel at respective supply and drain ports. The distance between the supply port and the drain port geometrically defines a sample volume. The injection of the sample plug into the electrolyte channel is accomplished electrokinetically by applying an electric field across the supply and drain channels for a time at least long enough that the sample component having the lowest electrophoretic mobility is contained within the geometrically defined volume. The supply and drain channels each are inclined to the electrolyte channel. Means are provided for electrokinetically injecting the sample into the sample volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Applicant: CIBA-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Manz, D. Jed Harrison, Carlo S. Effenhauser
  • Publication number: 20010004964
    Abstract: In a method for controlling sample introduction in microcolumn separation techniques, more particularly in capillary electrophoresis (CE), where a sample is injected as a sample plug into a sampling device which comprises at least a channel for the electrolyte buffer and a supply and drain channel for the sample. The supply and drain channels discharge into the electrolyte channel at respective supply and drain ports. The distance between the supply port and the drain port geometrically defines a sample volume. The injection of the sample plug into the electrolyte channel is accomplished electrokinetically by applying an electric field across the supply and drain channels for a time at least long enough that the sample component having the lowest electrophoretic mobility is contained within the geometrically defined volume. The supply and drain channels each are inclined to the electrolyte channel. Means are provided for electrokinetically injecting the sample into the sample volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Applicant: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Manz, D. Jed Harrison, Carlo S. Effenhauser
  • Patent number: 6134924
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the continuous dyeing of cellulose fibre yarns with reactive dyes and to an apparatus for carrying out this process.The process essentially comprises steps of impregnating yarn which has been continuously unwound at high speed from one or several supports (1) and rewound onto one or several supports (3) with at least one fibre-reactive dye in aqueous solution and at least one alkaline reagent in aqueous solution, andfixing the dye.The invention can be applied especially in the technical field of dyeing cellulose fibres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignees: Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Superba
    Inventors: Robert Enderlin, Mickael Mheidle, Didier Thibault
  • Patent number: 6020153
    Abstract: The invention relates to murine/human chimeric monoclonal antibodies with high specificity to and affinity for human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), derivatives thereof, processes for the preparation of these antibodies and their derivatives, DNAs coding for heavy and light chains of these antibodies, processes for the preparation of said DNAs, mammalian cell lines that produce and secrete the antibodies and processes for the preparation of said cell lines. The chimeric antibodies and their derivatives are used for clinical purposes in vitro and in vivo, especially for the diagnosis of cancer, for localization and in vivo imaging of tumors, for therapy, e.g. site-directed delivery of cytotoxins, and similar purposes. The invention also concerns test kits and pharmaceutical compositions containing said chimeric monoclonal antibodies and/or derivatives thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Norman Hardman, Laura Lee Gill, Ronald F. J. de Winter, Kathrin Wagner, Christoph Heusser
  • Patent number: 5958835
    Abstract: Flowable herbicidal compositions which contain an active component combination of at least one triazine and at least one chloroacetanilide with a surfactant component. This surfactant component, which consists of an anionic compound based on a monosulfuric acid ester of alkyl or alkyphenol polyglycol ethers as well as at least one nonionic alkyl or alkylphenol polyglycol ether, gives stable dispersions of the concentrated composition and forms stable dispersions of dilutions of the compositions suitable for direct use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Novartis Corporation (formerly Ciba-Geigy Corporation)
    Inventors: Larry I. Baker, Michael J. Hopkinson
  • Patent number: 5955487
    Abstract: The invention relates to N-acyl-N-heterocyclylalkylamino acids of the formula ##STR1## R.sub.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkyl that is unsubstituted or substituted by halogen or by hydroxy, or is C.sub.2 -C.sub.7 -alkenyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.7 cycloalkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.7 cycloalkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkoxy or C.sub.3 -C.sub.7 cycloalkyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkoxy;R.sub.2 is 1H-tetrazol-5-yl, carboxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkoxycarbonyl, SO.sub.3 H, PO.sub.2 H.sub.2, PO.sub.3 H.sub.2 or halo-C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkanesulfonylamino;R.sub.3 is 1H-tetrazol-5-yl, hydroxymethyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkoxymethyl, formyl, carboxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkoxycarbonyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkoxy-C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkoxycarbonyl, phenyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxycarbonyl or carbamoyl, the amino group of which is unsubstituted or mono-substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.7 alkenyl or by phenyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkyl or di-substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.7 alkenyl or by phenyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Tibur Schmidlin, Paul Zbinden, Peter Buhlmayer
  • Patent number: 5925367
    Abstract: A composition for controlling harmful insects and representatives of the order Acarina, containing as biologically active components a) a substance that modifies the behavior of the pests and b) at least one pesticidally active compound, wherein the biologically active components are contained in a flowable or viscous non-hardening matrix that is resistant to water and weather, is protected against light and is suitable for distribution in the form of droplets or droplet-like units or spots that adhere to a substrate, by means of which matrix the behavior-modifying substance is protected against UV radiation and from which it is slowly released in a biologically effective amount over a prolonged period, and wherein the pesticidally active compound can be taken up in a pesticidally effective amount from the surface of the droplets or droplet-like units or spots by the pests to be controlled; as well as a method of controlling the said pests, especially plant-destructive insects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Max Angst, Fran.cedilla.ois Gugumus, Gunther Rist, Manfred Vogt, Jean Rody
  • Patent number: 5922569
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the production of a polypeptide with the aid of genetically engineered yeast cells which contain not more than one functional CUP1 gene in the genome and carry a plasmid comprising a gene coding for said polypeptide and a functional CUP1 gene; and said yeast cells and said plasmids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Jutta Heim, Thomas Hottiger, Gabriele Pohlig, Peter Furst
  • Patent number: 5882698
    Abstract: Collimated white light is transmitted through a transparent lens mold having a molded lens resting on a curved surface thereof. A telecentric lens and a camera having a digital output are used to view the illuminated lens to obtain pixel image data of the lens. The pixel image data is analyzed by a computer to detect deformities in the molded lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: CIBA Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Kai C. Su, Jack C. White, Mushir Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 5843899
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for using IGF as inhibitors of inflammatory response, ischemic injury, and organ rejection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Philip F. Halloran
  • Patent number: 5843708
    Abstract: The invention relates to murine/human chimeric monoclonal antibodies with high specificity to and affinity for human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), derivatives thereof, processes for the preparation of these antibodies and their derivatives, DNAs coding for heavy and light chains of these antibodies, processes for the preparation of said DNAs, mammalian cell lines that produce and secrete the antibodies and processes for the preparation of said cell lines. The chimeric antibodies and their derivatives are used for clinical purposes in vitro and in vivo, especially for the diagnosis of cancer, for localization and in vivo imaging of tumors, for therapy, e.g. site-directed delivery of cytotoxins, and similar purposes. The invention also concerns test kits and pharmaceutical compositions containing said chimeric monoclonal antibodies and/or derivatives thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: CIBA-GEIGY Corporation
    Inventors: Norman Hardman, Laura Lee Gill, Ronald F.J. de Winter, Kathrin Wagner, Christoph Heusser
  • Patent number: 5843676
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel purified human immunoglobulin E binding factors (IgE-BFs), its individual optionally glycosylated proteins, and fragments thereof, processes for the purification of IgE-BFs, novel monoclonal antibodies to lymphocyte cellular receptors for IgE (Fc.sub..epsilon. R) crossreacting with IgE-BFs, derivatives thereof, processes for the preparation of these antibodies and their derivatives, hybridoma cell lines that produce these antibodies, processes for the preparation of said hybridoma cell lines, the use of the monoclonal antibodies and their derivatives for the qualitative and quantitative determination of IgE-BFs, test kits containing the monoclonal antibodies and/or their derivatives, the use of the monoclonal antibodies for the purification of IgE-BFs, the use of purified IgE-BFs, its individual optionally glycosylated proteins and/or fragments thereof for the prevention and/or treatment of allergy, and to pharmaceutical preparations containing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Guy Delespesse
  • Patent number: 5837290
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of an aqueous suspension of microcapsules having a capsule wall of polyurea and encapsulating a water-immiscible pesticide, by dispersing a solution of a polyisocyanate in the sparingly water-soluble pesticide in water and subsequently reacting the dispersion with a polyamine, which process comprises effecting the dispersion of the solution of the polyisocyanate in the sparingly water-soluble pesticide in water and the subsequent reaction of the dispersion with the polyamine in the presence of at least one water-soluble or water-dispersible nonionic surfactant of a block copolymer having at least one hydrophobic block and at least one hydrophilic block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Hans Walter Hasslin
  • Patent number: 5837499
    Abstract: Disclosed are polypeptide analogues of human C5a which are C5a receptor antagonists that exhibit substantially no analphylatoxin or agonist activity, and derivatives of the analogues, and dimeric forms of the analogues or derivatives. DNA molecules encoding the polypeptides and methods of making the analogues are also provided. Pharmaceutical formulations containing a C5a analogue, are used therapeutically in the treatment of C5a-mediated diseases and inflammatory conditions in mammals, and prophylactically to prevent or reduce inflammation caused by an event which causes inflammation or aggravates an existing inflammatory condition, respectively. Further disclosed are antibodies specific to the C5a analogues, derivatives thereof, and dimers of the analogues and derivatives which exhibit substantially no cross-reactivity with human C5a. The antibodies are used to detect or quantify circulating C5a analogue or derivative, as well as to modify, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Jan van Oostrum, William C. Boyar, Nicholas G. Galakatos, Albert Schmitz, Gino Van Heeke
  • Patent number: 5827984
    Abstract: An apparatus for simulating the effect of a living organism on the change in shape, the disintegration and dissolution behaviour and the active-ingredient release of a pharmaceutical dosage form, including a beaker-shaped container for accommodating a test medium and the pharmaceutical dosage form and an agitating device for agitating the test medium, which agitating device can be moved periodically in a reciprocating movement into and back out of the container, wherein the agitating device includes a piston-shaped head portion arranged on a piston rod, which head portion is provided with through-openings for the test medium and the distance of the piston-shaped head portion from the container floor can be altered periodically in accordance with the periodic reciprocating movement of the agitating device, wherein, the piston rod is suspended from a gallows-shaped boom or the piston rod passes through a bore in the gallows-shaped boom in such a manner that downward movement of the piston-shaped head portion ar
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Joel Sinnreich, Christian Bosshard
  • Patent number: 5817887
    Abstract: A color-photographic recording material is described which contains a magenta coupler and, as stabilizer, at least one compound of the formula ##STR1## where the radicals are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: David G. Leppard, Hugh Stephen Laver
  • Patent number: 5807824
    Abstract: Disclosed are polypeptide analogues of human C5a which are C5a receptor antagonists that exhibit substantially no analphylatoxin or agonist activity, and derivatives of the analogues, and dimeric forms of the analogues or derivatives. DNA molecules encoding the polypeptides and methods of making the analogues are also provided. Pharmaceutical formulations containing a C5a analogue, are used therapeutically in the treatment of C5a-mediated diseases and inflammatory conditions in mammals, and prophylactically to prevent or reduce inflammation caused by an event which causes inflammation or aggravates an existing inflammatory condition, respectively. Further disclosed are antibodies specific to the C5a analogues, derivatives thereof, and dimers of the analogues and derivatives which exhibit substantially no cross-reactivity with human C5a. The antibodies are used to detect or quantify circulating C5a analogue or derivative, as well as to modify, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Jan van Oostrum, William C. Boyar, Nicholas G. Galakatos, Albert Schmitz, Gino Van Heeke