Patents Assigned to Merck Patent GmbH
  • Patent number: 7255811
    Abstract: Tolane compounds of the formula I wherein R1, R2, L1, L2 and L3 are as defined herein, are described. Further described are liquid-crystalline media comprising at least one tolane compound of formula I as well as liquid-crystal display elements containing such a liquid-crystalline medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Hirschmann, Kevin Adlem, Patricia Saxton, Mark John Goulding, Martin Heeney
  • Patent number: 7255736
    Abstract: Effect pigments having improved optical properties based on SiO2 flakes coated with one or more layers, where the SiO2 flakes have a thickness of from 50 nm to 150 nm; processes for the preparation thereof; and use of these pigments in cosmetics, paints, coatings, plastics, films, in security printing, in security features in documents and identity cards, for coloring seed, for coloring foods or in medicament coatings and for the preparation of pigment compositions and dry preparations; are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Pfaff, Doreen Warthe, Johann Dietz, Cornelia Foerderer
  • Patent number: 7255900
    Abstract: In the compound of the formula (I), where: R1, R2 are each independently, for example, H or a straight-chain or branched alkyl radical p, q are each independently 0 or 1, i.e. at the value zero, —H is present at the appropriate position instead of —F M1 is —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CH2—O—, —O—CH2—, —CF2—O—, —O—CF2—, —CH?CH—, —CF?CF—, —C?C—, —CH2—CH2—CO——O—, —O—CO—CH2—CH2—, —CH2—CH2—, —CF2—CF2—, —(CH2)4—, —OC(?O)CF?CF— or a single bond A1 is, for example, 1,4-phenylene R5 has the same possible definitions as specified for R1 and R2, with the exception of —M1—A1—R5, but independently of the definition of R1 and R2 X is H, F, OF3, CF3, OCF2H with the following provisos: a) at least one of p, q has to be 1 b) R1 and R2 must not at the same time be H c) R2 and X must not at the same time be H.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schmidt, Rainer Wingen, Barbara Hornung
  • Publication number: 20070185303
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the improvement of organic electroluminescent devices, in particular blue-emitting devices, by using compounds of the formula (1) as dopants in the emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH Patents & Scientific Information
    Inventors: Philipp Stossel, Horst Vestweber, Holger Heil, Esther Breuning
  • Patent number: 7253202
    Abstract: Benzodioxepines of the formula (I) and physiologically tolerated salts and solvates thereof, in which R1, R2, R3, R4, A, B, a and b have the meanings indicated in claim 1, are ligands of the 5HT1A receptors and/or the 5HT4 receptors with simultaneously strong serotonin reuptake inhibition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Heinrich, Henning Böttcher, Kai Schiemann, Günter Hölzemann, Christoph van Amsterdam, Gerd Bartoszyk, Hartmut Greiner, Christoph Seyfried, Michel Brunet, Jean Zeiller, Jean Berthelon
  • Patent number: 7252781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing particle-free solutions of polymeric semiconductors and to their use for producing layers of polymeric semiconductors in polymeric organic light-emitting diodes (PLEDs), organic integrated circuits (O-ICs), organic field effect transistors (OFETs), organic thin film transistors (OTFTs), organic solar cells (O-SCs) or organic laser diodes (O-lasers).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Spreitzer, Heinrich Becker, Willi Kreuder, Sybille Berg, Andreas Sauer
  • Publication number: 20070176147
    Abstract: The invention relates to mixtures comprising at least one polymer, additionally comprising structural units containing at least one element from the 4th main group different from carbon and additionally comprising structural units that are triplet emissives. The inventive materials are better suited to the use in phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes than comparable prior art materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arne Buesing, Rene' Scheurich, Susanne Heun, Ingrid Bach
  • Publication number: 20070178098
    Abstract: The present invention provides an isolated IL-6 antagonist including an antibody variable region that prevents IL-6 from binding to gp130. The present invention also provides compositions and methods for treating IL-6 related diseases based on the IL-6 antagonists of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jeffrey Way, Stephen Gillies, Kin-Ming Lo, Yuan Liu
  • Patent number: 7250300
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dry-chemical method and a test kit for the rapid, quantitative analysis of total acid in wine and must. In this method, a slightly alkaline buffer is added to the sample to be analyzed, and the total acid content is determined from the resultant pH with the aid of a test stick with pH indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Tanzer, Uwe Krätschmer
  • Patent number: 7250199
    Abstract: Novel phenylcyclohexanes of the formula I in which n is 0 to 7, Q1 and Q2 are H, or one of these radicals is alternatively CH3, r is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, A is trans-1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-phenylene, 3-fluoro-1,4-phenylene or a single bond, X is F, Cl, —CF3, —CN, —OCF3 or —OCHF2, and Y and Z are each, independently of one another, H or F, with the proviso that, in the case where A is a single bond, Q1=Q2=H and simultaneously X=CN, Y and/or Z are F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Wachtler, Reinhard Hittich, Eike Poetsch, Herbert Plach, David Coates, Bernhard Rieger, Joachim Krause
  • Patent number: 7250279
    Abstract: hPDP polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing hPDP polypeptides and polynucleotides in diagnostic assays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Izaak Den Daas, Michael Gassen, Joachim Leibrock, Laurie Von Melchner
  • Patent number: 7250198
    Abstract: Liquid-crystalline compounds of the formula I in which R1, A1, A2, Z1, Z2, X, a, b, L1, L2 and L3 are as defined herein, and to liquid-crystalline media comprising at least one compound of the formula I and to electro-optical displays containing a liquid-crystalline medium of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Heckmeier, Peer Kirsch, Joachim Krause, Alexander Hahn, Andreas Ruhl
  • Patent number: 7250519
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of tertiary amines by reaction of secondary amines with aromatics or heteroaromatics in the presence of a base, a nickel or palladium compound and one or several phosphines, dialkoxy-, and/or diaryloxyphosphines in an inert solvent. Aromatic or heteroaromatics of this type play an important role in industry as reagents or intermediates for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals and in diverse fine and electronics chemicals, above all in the rapidly growing field of organic semi-conductors, in particular in organic or polymeric light diodes, organic solar cells and organic ICs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stössel, Hubert Spreitzer, Heinrich Becker
  • Publication number: 20070173578
    Abstract: The invention relates to solutions of at least one organic semiconductor containing at least one high-molecular constituent, in a solvent mixture of at least three different organic solvents A, B and C. The invention is characterised in that the solvents A and B are good solvents for the organic semiconductor, the solvent C is a bad solvent for the organic semiconductor, and Sdp.(A)<Sdp.(C)<Sdp.(B) holds good for the boiling points (Sdp.) of the solvents. The invention also relates to the use of said solutions in printing methods for producing layers of the organic semiconductor on substrates, especially in the electronics industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Hubert Spreitzer, Andreas Sauer, Carsten Schwan, Neil Tallant
  • Patent number: 7247761
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing aryl-aryl-coupled compounds and materials. These materials play an important role in industry, for instance as liquid crystals, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and as organic semiconductors. The aryl-aryl couplings hitherto carried out by means of Yamamoto coupling require specific additives in order to give a product suitable for the subsequent use. Particularly in the electronics industry, the Yamamoto coupling needs to meet particular requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Aurelie Falcou, Jochen Schwaiger, Andrea Ritter
  • Patent number: 7247740
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of perfluoroalkanesulfonic acid esters and to the further conversion thereof into salts, and to the use of the resultant compounds in electrolytes and in batteries, capacitors, supercapacitors and electrochemical cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schmidt, Nicolai Ignatyev, Udo Heider, Peter Sartori, Andrij Kucheryna
  • Publication number: 20070166534
    Abstract: The invention relates to substrates with a surface modified by dyes, characterised in being enveloped in one or several layers of immobilised LCST and/or UCST polymers. The invention further relates to a method for the production of the surface-modified substrates and the use thereof in paints, water paints, dyes, printing dyes, security printing dyes, plastics, concrete, in cosmetic formulations, in agricultural films and tarpaulins, for the laser marking of paper and plastics, for laser welding, as light protective, as pigment for corrosion protection and in the production of pigment preparations and dry preparations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2004
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Entenmann, Adalbert Huber
  • Publication number: 20070164273
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the improvement of organic electronic devices, in particular fluorescent electroluminescent devices, by using electron-transport materials of the formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Anja Gerhard, Horst Vestweber, Philipp Stossel
  • Patent number: 7244846
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I), in which D, R1, R2 and n are defined in Claim 1, are potent 5-HT1A agonists and 5-HT reuptake inhibitors and are suitable for the treatment of depression, anxiety states, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorders, psychiatric illnesses, cerebral infarction, cerebral ischaemia, tension states, side-effects in the treatment of high blood pressure, for the prophylaxis and therapy of cerebral illnesses, acromegaly, hypogonadism, secondary amenorrhoea, premenstrual syndrome, undesired puerperal lactation, pain, sleep disorders, narcolepsy, bipolar illnesses, mania, dementia, addiction illnesses, sexual dysfunction, eating disorders, obesity or fibromyalgia
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Dorsch, Henning Boettcher, Christoph van Amsterdam, Wilfried Rautenberg, Gerd Bartoszyk
  • Patent number: 7244809
    Abstract: The invention relates to mono-, oligo- and polymers comprising a dithienothiophene group and an aryl group useful as semiconductors or charge transport materials in optical, electrooptical or electronic devices including field effect transistors, electroluminescent, photovoltaic and sensor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Giles, Marcus Thompson, Iain McCulloch