Patents Assigned to Gruenenthal GmbH
  • Patent number: 9855286
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a first pharmacologically active ingredient selected from (1r,4r)-6?-fluoro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4?,9?-dihydro-3?H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1?-pyrano[3,4,b]indol]-4-amine and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof, and a second pharmacologically active ingredient which is a salicylic acid component selected from the group consisting of acetylsalicylic acid, salicylic acid, salicylamide, ethenzamide, salsalate, dipyrocetyl, benorilate, diflunisal, guacetisal, and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Stefanie Frosch, Klaus Linz, Klaus Schiene
  • Publication number: 20170210734
    Abstract: The invention relates to substituted spirocyclic cyclohexane derivatives which have an affinity for the ? opioid receptor and/or the ORL1 receptor, processes for the preparation thereof, medicaments containing these compounds and the use of these compounds for the preparation of medicaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Anita WEGERT, Sven KUEHNERT, Rene Michael KOENIGS, Bert NOLTE, Klaus LINZ, Stephanie HARLFINGER, Babette-Yvonne KOEGEL, Paul RATCLIFFE, Fritz THEIL, Olga GROEGER, Birgit BRAUN
  • Patent number: 9642801
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dosage form comprising at least one form of tapentadol, with or without a second analgesic, and at least one opioid antagonist, wherein tapentadol is present in an optimal or suboptimal amount and the said antagonist is present in an amount effective to improve the efficacy and or reduce the side effects of tapentadol. The present invention further provides a method of treating pain and pain related conditions by administering to a patient in need thereof, a dosage form comprising at least one form of tapentadol, with or without a second analgesic, and at least one opioid antagonist, wherein tapentadol is present in an optimal or suboptimal amount and the said antagonist is present in an amount effective to improve the efficacy and or reduce the side effects of tapentadol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventor: Ramesh Sesha
  • Patent number: 9629825
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a first pharmacologically active ingredient selected from (1r,4r)-6?-fluoro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4?,9?-dihydro-3?H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1?-pyrano[3,4,b]indol]-4-amine and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof, and a second pharmacologically active ingredient selected from gabapentinoids and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Stefanie Frosch, Klaus Linz, Thomas Christoph
  • Patent number: 9624209
    Abstract: Substituted phenylureas and phenylamides, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and the use of these compounds for preparing pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Frank-Foltyn, Gregor Bahrenberg, Thomas Christoph, Klaus Schiene, Jean De Vry, Nils Damann, Sven Frormann, Bernhard Lesch, Jeewoo Lee, Yong-Soo Kim, Myeong-Seop Kim, Derek Saunders, Hannelore Stockhausen
  • Patent number: 9446008
    Abstract: A semisolid aqueous pharmaceutical composition containing tapentadol or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Reinhold, Marc Schiller, Eva Wulsten, Sabine Karine Katrien Inghelbrecht, Roger Carolus Augusta Embrechts, Ulrich Feil
  • Patent number: 9345689
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a first pharmacologically active ingredient selected from (1r,4r)-6?-fluoro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4?,9?-dihydro-3?H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1?-pyrano[3,4,b]indol]-4-amine and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof, and a second pharmacologically active ingredient which is an anticonvulsant selected from the group consisting of retigabin, lamotrigine, lacosamide, levetiracetam, carbamazepine, sultiame, phenacemide, felbamate, topiramate, pheneturide, brivaracetam, selectracetam, zonisamide, stiripentol, beclamide, mexiletin, ralfinamide, methylphenobarbital, phenobarbital, primidone, barbexaclone, metharbital, ethotoin, phenyloin, amino(diphenylhydantoin) valeric acid, mephenyloin, fosphenyloin, paramethadione, trimethadione, ethadione, ethosuximide, phensuximide, mesuximide, clonazepam, lorazepam, diazepam, clobazam, oxcarbazepine, eslicarbazepine, rufinamide, valproic acid, valpromide, aminobutyric acid, progabide, tiagabine, and the physiolo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Stefanie Frosch, Klaus Linz, Thomas Christoph
  • Patent number: 9320729
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a first pharmacologically active ingredient, which is selected from (1r,4r)-6?-fluoro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4?,9?-dihydro-3?H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1?-pyrano[3,4,b]indol]-4-amine and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof, and a second pharmacologically active ingredient, which is a propionic acid derivative selected from the group consisting of ibuprofen, naproxen, ketoprofen, flurbiprofen, fenoprofen, fenbufen, suprofen, pirprofen, indoprofen, tiaprofenic acid, oxaprozin, ibuproxam, flunoxaprofen, alminoprofen, naproxcinod, and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Stefanie Frosch, Klaus Linz, Klaus Schiene
  • Patent number: 9320725
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a first pharmacologically active ingredient selected from (1r,4r)-6?-fluoro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4?,9?-dihydro-3?H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1?-pyrano[3,4,b]indol]-4-amine and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof, and a second pharmacologically active ingredient selected from gabapentinoids and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Stefanie Frosch, Klaus Linz, Thomas Christoph
  • Patent number: 9308196
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a first pharmacologically active ingredient, which is selected from (1r,4r)-6?-fluoro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4?,9?-dihydro-3?H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1?-pyrano[3,4,b]indol]-4-amine and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof, and a second pharmacologically active ingredient, which is an oxicam selected from the group consisting of meloxicam, piroxicam, tenoxicam, lornoxicam, droxicam and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Stefanie Frosch, Klaus Linz, Klaus Schiene
  • Patent number: 9296749
    Abstract: The present invention relates to crystalline forms of cis-(E)-4-(3-Fluorophenyl)-2?,3?,4?,9?-tetrahydro-N,N-dimethyl-2?-(1-oxo-3-phenyl-2-propenyl)-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1?[1H]-pyrido[3,4-b]indol]-4-amine, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising these modifications, the use of these modifications as well as to a process for making the crystalline forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Gruss
  • Patent number: 9289416
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical dosage form for administration twice daily, once daily or less frequently, which contains 6?-fluoro-(N-methyl- or N,N-dimethyl)-4-phenyl-4?,9?-dihydro-3?H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1?-pyrano[3,4,b]indol]-4-amine or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Nadja Gruening, Marc Schiller, Ashish Hemani, Chris Kirby, Ingo Friedrich, John Bothmer, Andreas Scholz
  • Patent number: 9133142
    Abstract: A salt or cocrystal of 3-(3-dimethylamino-1-ethyl-2-methyl-propyl)-phenol (component a) and at least one acid component (b1) or at least one acid component (b2), wherein the salt or cocrystal of component (a) and component (b2) is present in crystalline and/or amorphous form, a pharmaceutical composition comprising said salt or cocrystal, and a method of treating pain in a subject in need thereof by administering an effective amount of said salt or cocrystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Gruss, Magda Kraszewski
  • Patent number: 9120797
    Abstract: Spirocyclic cyclohexane compounds corresponding to formula I a method for producing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Claudia Hinze, Otto Aulenbacher, Bernd Sundermann, Stefan Oberboersch, Elmar Friderichs, Werner Englberger, Babette-Yvonne Koegel, Klaus Linz, Hans Schick, Helmut Sonnenschein, Birgitta Henkel, Valerie Sarah Rose, Michael Jonathan Lipkin
  • Patent number: 9120756
    Abstract: The invention relates to substituted phenylureas and phenylamides, to processes for the preparation thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and also to the use of these compounds for preparing pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Frank, Gregor Bahrenberg, Thomas Christoph, Klaus Schiene, Jean De Vry, Nils Damann, Sven Frormann, Bernhard Lesch, Jeewoo Lee, Yong-Soo Kim, Myeong-Seop Kim, Derek Saunders, Hannelore Stockhausen
  • Patent number: 9066888
    Abstract: A plaster containing an active ingredient for the transdermal administration of a pharmaceutical active ingredient, having a removable protective film and an adhesive layer. The plaster includes at least one compound that is contained in the adhesive layer or lies adjacent the adhesive layer between the adhesive layer and the removable protective film and that can be applied to the skin to at least reduce skin irritation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Kugelmann, Johannes Bartholomäus, Rasoul Sedaghat Kerdar
  • Patent number: 9029378
    Abstract: Substituted bicyclic aromatic carboxamide and urea compounds as vanilloid receptor ligands, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and a method of using these compounds in the treatment and/or inhibition of pain and further diseases and/or disorders mediated at least in part via the vanilloid receptor 1 (VR1/TRPV1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Frank, Thomas Christoph, Bernhard Lesch, Jeewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 8946290
    Abstract: Active compound combinations of compounds of group A, particularly opioids such as (+)-(2R,3R)-1-dimethylamino-3-(3-methoxy-phenyl)-2-methyl-pentan-3-ol or a salt thereof with a physiologically tolerated acid, and compounds of group B, particularly anti-muscarine agents such as oxybutynin or a salt thereof with a physiologically tolerated acid suitable for treatment of an increased urge to urinate or urinary incontinence. Related pharmaceutical formulations and methods of treatment of an increased urge to urinate or urinary incontinence are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Christoph
  • Patent number: 8946204
    Abstract: Substituted phenylureas and phenylamides, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and the use of these compounds for preparing pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Frank, Gregor Bahrenberg, Thomas Christoph, Klaus Schiene, Jean De Vry, Nils Damann, Sven Frormann, Bernhard Lesch, Derek John Saunders, Jeewoo Lee, Yong-Soo Kim, Myeong-Seop Kim, Hannelore Stockhausen
  • Patent number: 8937092
    Abstract: The invention relates to aryl or N-heteroaryl substituted methanesulfonamide derivatives as vanilloid receptor ligands, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and also to these compounds for use in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of pain and further diseases and/or disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Frank, Gregor Bahrenberg, Thomas Christoph, Bernhard Lesch, Jeewoo Lee