Patents Assigned to Pharmacia & Upjohn
  • Patent number: 7605157
    Abstract: The invention includes tetrahydroquinoline and related compounds of formula I and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, that exhibit useful antibacterial activity again a wide range of human and veterinary pathogens
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC
    Inventors: Michael Robert Barbachyn, J. Craig Ruble, Arthur Glenn Romero, Lisa Marie Thomasco, Alexander Ross Hurd, John Raymond Palmer, Peter Laurence Toogood, Dennis Joseph McNamara, Debra Ann Sherry, Paul Joseph Dobrowolski
  • Patent number: 7582756
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method to make a pyrrole substituted 2-indolinone compound of the formula
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignees: Sugen, Inc., Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Huiping Guan, Congxin Liang, Li Sun, Peng Cho Tang, Chung Chen Wei, Tomas Vojkovsky, Qingwu Jin, Paul M. Herrinton, Michael A. Mauragis
  • Patent number: 7572924
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pyrrole substituted-2-indolinone compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts which modulate the activity of protein kinases and therefore are expected to be useful in the prevention and treatment of protein kinase related cellular disorders such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignees: Sugen, Inc., Pharmacia & Upjohn Co.
    Inventors: Peng Cho Tang, Todd Anthony Miller, Xiaoyuan Li, Connie Li Sun, Chung Chen Wei, Shahrzad Shirazian, Congxin Liang, Tomas Vojkovsky, Asaad S. Nematalla, Michael Hawley
  • Publication number: 20090162883
    Abstract: The present invention provides the enzyme and enzymatic procedures for cleaving the ? secretase cleavage site of the APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells and cell isolates and assays. An enzyme that cleaves the ?-secretase site of APP also is provided. The invention further provides a modified APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells, and cell isolates, and assays that are particularly useful for identifying candidate therapeutics for treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Mark Gurney, Michael Jerome Bienkowski
  • Publication number: 20090137553
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new class of oxazolidinone derivatives, to their use as antibacterial agents, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and to methods for their preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicants: Pharmacia and Upjohn Company LLC
    Inventors: Charles Francis Donovan, Vara Prasad Venkata Nagendra Josyula, Manjinder Singh Lall, Adam Robert Renslo
  • Publication number: 20090117103
    Abstract: The present invention provides for compositions of anti-M-CSF antibodies that are substantially free of endotoxin. Also provided are methods of treating M-CSF-mediated disorders with pharmaceutical formulations of anti-M-CSF antibodies having reduced endotoxin levels, including inflammatory diseases and neoplasia disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: Pharmacia & UpJohn Company LLC
    Inventors: Madhav Devalaraja, Ronald W. Fedechko
  • Publication number: 20090075316
    Abstract: The present invention provides the enzyme and enzymatic procedures for cleaving the ? secretase cleavage site of the APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells and cell isolates and assays. The invention further provides a modified APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells, and cell isolates, and assays that are particularly useful for identifying candidate therapeutics for treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: PHARMACIA & UPJOHN CO.
    Inventors: Mark E. Gurney, Michael J. Bienkowski, Robert L. Heinrikson, Luis A. Parodi, Riqiang Yan
  • Patent number: 7498436
    Abstract: This present invention relates to prodrug compounds of the formula (Y) and pharmaceutical salts thereof: where RN, R1, R2, R3R4 and RC are defined herein, which are useful in treating Alzheimer's disease and other similar diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignees: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC, Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Varghese John, Barbara Jagodzinska, Michel Maillard, James P. Beck, Ruth E. TenBrink, Daniel Getman
  • Publication number: 20090048327
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymorphs of the 3-pyrrole substituted 2-indolinone compound 5-(5-fluoro-2-oxo-1,2-dihydro-indol-3-ylidenemethyl)-2,4-dimethyl-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid (2-pyrrolidin-1-yl-ethyl)-amide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY
    Inventors: Changquan Sun, Todd P Foster, Fusen Han, Michael Hawley, Tom Thamann
  • Patent number: 7476391
    Abstract: Gram negative bacterial virulence genes are identified, thereby allowing the identification of novel anti-bacterial agents that target these virulence genes and their products, and the provision of novel gram negative bacterial mutants useful in vaccines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: David E. Lowery, Troy E. Fuller, Michael J. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 7456269
    Abstract: The present invention provides the enzyme and enzymatic procedures for cleaving the ? secretase cleavage site of the APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells and cell isolates and assays. An enzyme that cleaves the ?-secretase site of APP also is provided. The invention further provides a modified APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells, and cell isolates, and assays that are particularly useful for identifying candidate therapeutics for treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Mark E. Gurney, Michael Jerome Bienkowski
  • Patent number: 7452913
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymorphs of the 3-pyrrole substituted 2-indolinone compound 5-(5-fluoro-2-oxo-1,2-dihydro-indol-3-ylidenemethyl)-2,4-dimethyl-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid (2-pyrrolidin-1-yl-ethyl)-amide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Changquan Sun, Todd P. Foster, Fusen Han, Michael Hawley, Tom Thamann
  • Patent number: 7442691
    Abstract: The present invention are macrocycles of the formula (IX): for treating Alzheimer's disease and other similar diseases. These compounds include inhibitors of the beta-secretase enzyme that are useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other diseases characterized by deposition of A beta peptide in a mammal. The compounds of the invention are useful in pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment to reduce A beta peptide formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Shon R. Pulley, James P. Beck, Ruth E. TenBrink
  • Publication number: 20080254063
    Abstract: The present invention relates to providing new vaccines and treatments for the diseases related to canine influenza virus. It discloses influenza viral antigens, and methods of presenting these antigens to canines, especially dogs. It relates to attenuated and killed vaccines. The present invention relates to experimentally generated canine and equine influenza viruses. invention also includes influenza A, including H3, N8, H3N8, H7N7 and viruses which contain at least one genome segment from an canine or equine influenza virus. The present invention also relates to the use of these viruses in therapeutic compositions to protect canines, dogs in particular, from diseases caused by influenza viruses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: PHARMACIA AND UPJOHN COMAPNY LLC
    Inventors: Shelly L. Shields, Hans A. Draayer, Michael J. Huether
  • Patent number: 7435832
    Abstract: The present invention provides crystals, and compositions thereof, wherein the crystals include a malic acid salt of N-[2-(diethylamino)ethyl]-5-[(5-fluoro-1,2-dihydro-2-oxo-3H-indol-3-ylidene)methyl]-2,4-dimethyl-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxamide. Methods of preparing such crystals are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Michael Hawley, Thomas J. Fleck, Stephen P. Prescott, Mark T. Maloney
  • Publication number: 20080241961
    Abstract: The present invention provides a Drosophila melanogaster GPCR (DmGPCR) polypeptides and polynucleotides which identify and encode such a DmGPCR. In addition, the invention provides expression vectors, host cells and methods for its production. The invention also provides methods for the identification of homologs in other animals, and of DmGPCR agonists/antagonists, useful for the treatment of diseases in animals and for the control of insects that are injurious or harmful to plants or animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY
    Inventors: David E. Lowery, Valdin G. Smith, Teresa M. Kubiak, Martha J. Larsen
  • Publication number: 20080171349
    Abstract: The present invention provides the enzyme and enzymatic procedures for cleaving the ? secretase cleavage site of the APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells and cell isolates and assays. The invention further provides a modified APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells, and cell isolates, and assays that are particularly useful for identifying candidate therapeutics for treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: PHARMACIA & UPJOHN CO.
    Inventors: Mark E. Gurney, Michael J. Bienkowski, Robert L. Heinrikson, Luis A. Parodi, Riqiang Yan
  • Patent number: 7378511
    Abstract: The present invention provides the enzyme and enzymatic procedures for cleaving the ? secretase cleavage site of the APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells and cell isolates and assays. The invention further provides a modified APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells, and cell isolates, and assays that are particularly useful for identifying candidate therapeutics for treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Mark E. Gurney, Michael J. Bienkowski, Robert L. Heinrikson, Luis A. Parodi, Riqiang Yan
  • Patent number: 7377894
    Abstract: A method for developing a library of compounds, the compound library, a method for identifying ligands for target molecules, and a method for identifying lead chemical templates, which, for example, can be used in drug discovery and design are provided. Certain embodiments of these methods include the use of NMR spectroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Brian J Stockman, Kathleen A Farley
  • Patent number: 7375187
    Abstract: The present invention provides the enzyme and enzymatic procedures for cleaving the ? secretase cleavage site of the APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells and cell isolates and assays. The invention further provides a modified APP protein and associated nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells, and cell isolates, and assays that are particularly useful for identifying candidate therapeutics for treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Mark E. Gurney, Michael J. Bienkowaki, Robert L. Heinrikson, Luis A. Parodi, Riqiang Yan