Patents Examined by Andrew B. Freistein
  • Patent number: 7230099
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the Formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, wherein R1, R2, R7, R8, R9 and R10, W and Y are as defined in the specification. Such compounds are MEK inhibitors and useful in the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases, such as cancer and inflammation, in mammals. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds in the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases in mammals and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Array BioPharma, Inc.
    Inventors: Eli Wallace, Brian Hurley, Hong Woon Yang, Joseph Lyssikatos, Jim Blake, Alison Marlow
  • Patent number: 7230002
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) inhibitors their analogs, isomers, pharmaceutical compositions, therapeutic uses and methods of making the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
    Inventors: Abraham Thomas, Balasubramanian Gopalan, V. S. Prasada Rao Lingam, Daisy Manish Shah
  • Patent number: 7226920
    Abstract: The present invention relates to inhibitors of protein kinases. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention, processes for preparing the compounds and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of various disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Arnost, Guy W. Bemis, Robert J. Davies, Cornelia J. Forster, Ronald Grey, Jr., Mark W. Ledeboer, Brian Ledford, Craig Marhefka, David Messersmith, Albert C. Pierce, Francesco G. Salituro, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 7227025
    Abstract: This invention relates to a compound of Formula I, a method for its preparation and its use in the preparation of a compound of Formula II wherein R1, R2, R3, X and n are as defined in the disclosure. This invention also discloses preparation of compounds of Formula III wherein R1, R2, R6, R7, R8 and n are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are certain intermediates of Formula 4 for the preparation of compounds of Formula I wherein X is N and R2, R3 and n are as defined in the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: John Herbert Freudenberger, George Philip Lahm, Thomas Paul Selby, Thomas Martin Stevenson
  • Patent number: 7226921
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel selective cathepsin S inhibitors, the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and N-oxides thereof, their uses as therapeutic agents and the methods of their making.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignees: Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Axys Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiayo Li, David J. Aldous, Sukanthini Thurairatnam
  • Patent number: 7226929
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (Ic) processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and to their use in medicine, particularly use in the amelioration of a clinical condition for which a Factor Xa inhibitor is indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Chuen Chan, Julie Nicole Hamblin, Henry Anderson Kelly, Nigel Paul King, Andrew McMurtrie Mason, Vipulkumar Kantibhai Patel, Stefan Senger, Gita Punjabhai Shah, Nigel Stephen Watson, Helen Elisabeth Weston, Caroline Whitworth, Robert John Young
  • Patent number: 7223868
    Abstract: 2,3-Di-substituted N-heteroaromatic propionamides with said substitution at the 3-position being a substituted phenyl group and at the 2-position being a methyl cycloalkyl ring, said propionamides being glucokinase activators which increase insulin secretion in the treatment of type II diabetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Fred Thomas Bizzarro, Wendy Lea Corbett, Joseph Francis Grippo, Nancy-Ellen Haynes, George William Holland, Robert Francis Kester, Paige Erin Mahaney, Ramakanth Sarabu
  • Patent number: 7223757
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The formula I compounds inhibit tyrosine kinase enzymes thereby making them useful as anti-cancer agents. The formula I compounds are also useful for the treatment of other diseases which can be treated by inhibiting tyrosine kinase enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Mark D. Wittman, Neelakantan Balasubramanian, Upender Velaparthi, Kurt Zimmermann, Mark G. Saulnier, Peiying Liu, Xiaopeng Sang, David B. Frennesson, Karen M. Stoffan, James G. Tarrant, Anne Marinier, Stephan Roy
  • Patent number: 7220756
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula I and the use thereof for the therapeutic treatment of a CNS disorder relating to or affected by the 5-HT6 receptor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventor: Derek Cecil Cole
  • Patent number: 7217723
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound that has an excellent inhibitory activity on STAT6 activation and is effective against allergic diseases, and a medicinal composition thereof. According to the present invention, disclosed is the compound represented by the General Formula (I) [where R1 and R2 independently represent a C1-6 alkyl group and the like that may have a hydrogen atom or a substituent; R3 represents a C1-6 alkyl group and the like that may have a substituent; R4 and R5 independent represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-6 alkyl group and the like that may have a substituent; R6 represents a hydrogen atom and the like; W represents —SO2—and the like; and X represents a sulphur atom and the like.] or a salt thereof, or a hydrate thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Eisai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Shuichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7217724
    Abstract: The compound of the formula (I): wherein W is a group of the following formula (VIII) binding to any possible position on the Q: Q is, together with W, a group of the formula: —C(W)?C(R3A)—N(R3)—, etc.; R3A is H or optionally substituted lower alkyl; R4, R5, R6, and R7 are independently H or optionally substituted lower alkyl; R1 is optionally substituted lower alkyl, etc.; R2 is H, etc.; R3 is H, etc.; Ar is phenyl, etc., or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, where these compounds exhibiting ?3-adrenoceptor-stimulating activity and being useful as a medicament for treatment of obesity, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Ueno, Tsuyoshi Noguchi, Kotaro Hirota, Nobuyuki Sawada, Takashi Umezome
  • Patent number: 7211601
    Abstract: The present invention is related to pyrrolidine derivatives of formula (I). Said compounds are preferably for use as pharmaceutically active compounds. Specifically, pyrrolidine derivatives of formula (I) are useful in the treatment and/or prevention of premature labor, premature birth and dysmenorrhea. In particular, the present invention is related to pyrrolidine derivatives displaying a substantial modulatory, notably an antagonist activity of the oxytocin receptor. More preferably, said compounds are useful in the treatment and/or prevention of disease states mediated by oxytocin, including premature labor, premature birth and dysmenorrhea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Applied Research Systems Ars Holding N.V.
    Inventors: Serge Halazy, Anna Quattropani, Alexander Scheer, Matthias Schwarz, Russell J Thomas, Anthony Baxter
  • Patent number: 7208505
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ?3 adrenergic receptor agonist of formula (I); or a pharmaceutical salt thereof; which is capable of increasing lipolysis and energy expenditure in cells and, therefore, is useful, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Daniel Jon Sall, Jolie Anne Bastian, Rushad Eruch Karanjawala, Cynthia Darshini Jesudason, Theo Schotten, Britta Evers, Gerd Reuhter, Don Richard Finley, Freddie Craig Stevens, Vincent Patrick Rocco, Patrick Gianpietro Spinazze, John Xiaoqiang He, John Arnold Werner, William George Trankle, Andrew Michael Ratz
  • Patent number: 7205323
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds useful as dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) inhibitors of the formula: wherein X, Y, a, R1, and R2 are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals S.A.
    Inventors: Abraham Thomas, Gopalan Balasubramanian, V. S. Prasada Rao Lingam, Daisy Manish Shah
  • Patent number: 7205320
    Abstract: PDE4 inhibition is achieved by novel compounds, e.g., N-substituted aniline and diphenylamine analogs. The compounds of the present invention are of Formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Richard A. Schumacher, William F. Brubaker, Michael De Vivo, Hans-Jürgen Ernst Hess, Allen Hopper, Ashok Tehim, Ruiping Liu, Axel Unterbeck
  • Patent number: 7205315
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a compound of formula (I), or a stereoisomer or a mixture of stereoisomer thereof in any ratio, or its physiologically tolerable salt, which is useful as an inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase. The present invention is also directed to a pharmaceutical preparation comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of at least one compound of formula (I); processes for their preparation; the use of a compound of formula (I) having activity as an matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor; and for the prophylaxis and therapy of disease states that involve an increase in the activity of matrix metalloproteinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Schudok, Hans Matter, Armin Hofmeister
  • Patent number: 7202253
    Abstract: Novel cycloalkyl compounds useful as inhibitors of potassium channel function (especially inhibitors of the Kv1 subfamily of voltage gated K+ channels, especially inhibitors Kv1.5 which has been linked to the ultra-rapidly activating delayed rectifier K+ current IKur), methods of using such compounds in the prevention and treatment of arrhythmia and IKur-associated conditions, and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignees: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Icagen, Inc.
    Inventors: John Lloyd, Yoon T. Jeon, Heather Finlay, Lin Yan, Michael F. Gross, Serge Beaudoin
  • Patent number: 7199143
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I), or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt, or an in-vivo-hydrolysable ester thereof, wherein —N-HET is, for example, (Ic) or (If) wherein R1 is, for example, halogen or a (1–4C)alkyl group which is substituted by one substituent selected from, for example, hydroxy, (1–4C)alkoxy, amino, cyano or azido; Q is selected from, for example, Q1 wherein R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen or fluoro; T is selected from a range of groups, for example, wherein m is 0, 1 or 2; are useful as antibacterial agents; and processes for their manufacture and pharmaceutical compositions containing them are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Michael Barry Gravestock, Neil James Hales, Folkert Reck, Fei Zhou, Paul Robert Fleming, Daniel Robert Carcanague
  • Patent number: 7199149
    Abstract: The present application describes monocyclic and bicyclic lactams and derivatives thereof of Formulae Ia–e: wherein one of one of T1 and T2 is carbonyl, thiocarbonyl, or sulfonyl or pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms thereof. Compounds of the present invention are useful as inhibitors of trypsin-like serine proteases, specifically factor Xa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Bristol Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Wei Han, Jennifer X. Qiao, Zilun Hu
  • Patent number: 7199142
    Abstract: The present invention encompasses compounds of Formula I: as well as the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and hydrates thereof. The compounds are useful for treating immune mediated diseases and conditions, such as bone marrow, organ and tissue transplant rejection. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Weirong Chen, Jeffrey J. Hale, Zhen Li, Christopher L. Lynch, Sander G. Mills, William E. Neway, III