Patents Examined by D. Margaret Seaman
  • Patent number: 7718670
    Abstract: New quinuclidine amide derivatives having the chemical structure of general formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof including quaternary salts of formula (II) are disclosed; as well as processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and their use in therapy as antagonists of M3 muscarinic receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Laboratorios Almirall S.A
    Inventor: Maria Prat Quinones
  • Patent number: 7718669
    Abstract: The invention relates to triazolopyridine derivatives of general formula (I), which are defined as cited in the description, to their pharmaceutically applicable salts and to their use as medicaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis
    Inventors: Stefan Petry, Gerhard Zoller, Günter Müller, Karl-Heinz Baringhaus, Hubert Heuer
  • Patent number: 7718804
    Abstract: Quaternary nitrogen heterocyclic boronic acid-containing compounds are described, which are sensitive to glucose and fructose, as well as a variety of other physiologically important analytes, such as aqueous chloride and iodide, and a method of using the compounds. Also disclosed is a contact lens doped with the quaternary nitrogen heterocyclic boronic acid-containing compound, and a method of using the doped contact lens to measure the concentration of analyte in tears under physiological conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
    Inventors: Chris D. Geddes, Ramachandram Badugu, Joseph R. Lakowicz
  • Patent number: 7718805
    Abstract: The invention provides an improved process for preparing rebamipide that is useful as a medicament, which makes it possible to prepare rebamipide with high purity and high yield. The invention is an improved process for preparing rebamipide of the formula (1), comprising subjecting a carbostyril amino acid compound of the formula (5) or a salt thereof containing a compound of the formula (11) as an impurity to a reduction treatment in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst in a basic aqueous solution, thereby selectively reducing the impurity compound (11) to transform into the carbostyril amino acid compound (5); and then acylating the compound (5) in a basic aqueous solution to give rebamipide (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Nishitani, Norio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 7718806
    Abstract: The invention provides an improved process for preparing a carbostyril compound (1) or a salt thereof that is useful as a medicament, which makes it possible to prepare it more safely and efficiently. In more detail, the invention provides an improved process for preparing the carbostyril compound (1) by heating the compound (4) with a high boiling solvent in hydrochloric acid under reflux to give the compound (5) safely; and then acylating the compound (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Kawasaki, Takayuki Ikeda, Takeshi Sekine, Norio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 7714151
    Abstract: Aminated isoflavonoid synthesized by aminating the 4-keto group of isoflavanone and isoflavanone ring systems, pharmaceutical compositions containing same and uses thereof as therapeutic agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Novogen Research Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Graham Edmund Kelly, Andrew Heaton, Jane Faragalla, John Bremner
  • Patent number: 7714135
    Abstract: Compounds of a certain formula (I), in which Ra and Rb have the meanings indicated in the description, are novel effective compounds with anti-proliferative and apoptosis inducing activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 4SC AG
    Inventors: Klaus Pekari, Mathias Schmidt, Thomas Bär, Thomas Beckers, Björn Bartels
  • Patent number: 7713991
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) provide pharmacological agents which are inhibitors of the P450 enzyme, aldosterone synthase, and thus may be employed for the treatment of aldosterone mediated conditions. Accordingly, the compounds of formula (I) may be employed for prevention, delay of progression, or treatment of hypokalemia, hypertension, congestive heart failure, renal failure, in particular, chronic renal failure, restenosis, atherosclerosis, syndrome X, obesity, nephropathy, post-myocardial infarction, coronary heart diseases, increased formation of collagen, fibrosis and remodeling following hypertension and endothelial dysfunction. Preferred are the compounds of formula (I) which are selective inhibitors of aldosterone synthase devoid of undesirable side effects due to general inhibition of cytochrome P450 enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventor: Fariborz Firooznia
  • Patent number: 7714134
    Abstract: The compounds of a certain formula (1) in which Ra and Rb have the meanings indicated in the description are novel for treating hyperproliferative diseases and/or disorders responsive to the induction of apoptosis. The invention further relates to certain compounds of formula (I), in which Ra and Rb have the meanings indicated in the description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 4SC AG
    Inventors: Klaus Pekari, Thomas Baer, Mathias Schmidt, Thomas Beckers
  • Patent number: 7714136
    Abstract: Compounds of a certain formula (I) in which Ra and Rb have the meanings indicated in the description, are novel effective compounds with anti-proliferative and apoptosis inducing activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 4SC AG
    Inventors: Klaus Pekari, Mathias Schmidt, Thomas Bär, Thomas Beckers, Petra Gimmnich
  • Patent number: 7713997
    Abstract: The present invention provides an agent which exhibits excellent antibacterial activity, low toxicity, improved bioavailability, and low binding rate to serum proteins. The present invention is directed to a pyridonecarboxylic acid derivative represented by formula (1): or a salt thereof, wherein R1 represents a methyl group, a fluorine atom, or a chlorine atom; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R3 represents an isopropyl group or a tert-butyl group; R4 represents a methyl group or a halogen atom; and R5 represents a fluorine atom or a chlorine atom. The present invention is also directed to an antibacterial agent and a medicament containing the derivative or the salt thereof as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Wakunaga Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Yazaki, Yasuhiro Kuramoto, Kenji Itoh, Kazusa Yoshikai, Yuzo Hirao, Yoshihiro Ohshita, Norihiro Hayashi, Hirotaka Amano, Takayuki Amago, Hitomi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 7709645
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel pyrrolo-pyridine kinase modulators and methods of using the novel pyrrolo-pyridine kinase modulators to treat diseases mediated by kinase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: SGX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: William D Arnold, Pierre Bounaud, Chixu Chen, Brian Eastman, Andreas Gosberg, Stefan N. Gradl, Stephanie Hopkins, Zhe Li, Ian McDonald, Paul A. Sprengeler, Ruo W. Steensma, Mark E. Wilson
  • Patent number: 7709498
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the treatment of a bacterial infection comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid or base addition salt thereof, a stereochemically isomeric form thereof or a N-oxide form thereof, wherein R1 is hydrogen, halo, polyhaloC1-6alkyl, C1-6alkyl, Ar or Het; p is an integer equal to 1 or 2; R2 is C1-6alkyloxy, C1-6alkyloxyC1-6alkyloxy or C1-6alkylthio; R3 is Ar, Het or Het1; R4 and R5 each independently are hydrogen, C1-6alkyl or benzyl; or R4 and R5 together and including the N to which they are attached may form a radical selected from the group of pyrrolidinyl, 2-pyrrolinyl, 3-pyrrolinyl, pyrrolyl, imidazolidinyl, pyrazolidinyl, 2-imidazolinyl, 2-pyrazolinyl, imidazolyl, pyrazolyl, triazolyl, piperidinyl, pyridinyl, piperazinyl, pyridazinyl, pyrimidinyl, pyrazinyl, triazinyl, morpholinyl and thiomorpholinyl, each of said rings may optionally be substituted with C1-6alkyl, halo, polyhal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.
    Inventors: Koenraad Jozef Lodewijk Marcel Andries, Anil Koul, Jérôme Emile Georges Guillemont, Elisabeth Therese Jeanne Pasquier
  • Patent number: 7709650
    Abstract: 2-Substituted-5-(1-alkylthio)alkylpyridines are produced efficiently and in high yield from a non-pyridine source by cyclization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: James M. Renga, Ronald Ross, Jr., Timothy P. Martin, Kim E. Arndt, Nicholas M. Irvine
  • Patent number: 7709497
    Abstract: The invention provides 4-{[1-(aminocarbonyl)-4-piperidinyl]amino}-N-[(3,4-dimethylphenyl)methyl]-1-ethyl-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine-5-carboxamide, which is the compound of formula (I): or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Glaxo Group Limited
    Inventors: Siegfried Benjamin Christensen, IV, Caroline Mary Cook, Christopher David Edlin, Martin Redpath Johnson, Paul Spencer Jones, Mika Kristian Lindvall, Amyn Pyarali Sayani, Naimisha Trivedi, Lionel Trottet
  • Patent number: 7709641
    Abstract: A compound having the general structure shown in Formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts and/or solvates thereof are useful in treating diseases or conditions mediated by NK1 receptors, for example various physiological disorders, symptoms or diseases, including emesis, depression, anxiety and cough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: OPKO Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Sapna S. Shah, Neng-Yang Shih, Anandan Palani, Xianhai Huang, Dong Xiao, Sunil Paliwal, Hon-Chung Tsui, Michelle Laci Wrobleski, Ashwin U. Rao, Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: 7709488
    Abstract: The compounds of formula (I) in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and A have the meanings as given in the description are novel effective iNOS inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Altana Pharma AG
    Inventor: Wolf-Ruediger Ulrich
  • Patent number: 7709646
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): or a stereoisomer or pharmaceutically acceptable salt form thereof, wherein the variables A, B, L1, L2, X1, X2, X3, X4, R4, R5, R13, R14, R15 and R16 are as defined herein. The compounds of Formula (I) are useful as selective inhibitors of serine protease enzymes of the coagulation cascade and/or contact activation system; for example thrombin, factor Xa, factor XIa, factor IXa, factor VIIa and/or plasma kallikrein. In particular, it relates to compounds that are selective factor XIa inhibitors. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating thromboembolic and/or inflammatory disorders using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Mimi L. Quan, Cailan Wang, Jinglan Zhou, Jon J. Hangeland, Dietmar A. Seiffert, Robert M. Knabb
  • Patent number: 7709665
    Abstract: A fluorosulfonyl group-containing compound having a high polymerization reactivity, a process for its production, a sulfonyl group-containing polymerizable monomer led from the sulfonyl group-containing compound, and a polymer obtainable by polymerizing the sulfonyl group-containing polymerizable monomer, are provided. A compound (3) is fluorinated to form a compound (4), and then, the compound (4) is subjected to a decomposition reaction to produce a compound (5). A preferred compound (5-1) of the compound (5) is thermally decomposed to produce a compound (7-1) having a high polymerization reactivity. wherein RA is a bivalent organic group such as a fluoroalkylene group, RAF is a group having RA fluorinated, or the same group as RA, each of RB to RD which are independent of one another, is a hydrogen atom, etc., each of RBF to RDF is a fluorine atom, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Okazoe, Atsushi Watakabe, Masahiro Ito, Kunio Watanabe, Takeshi Eriguchi, Kimiaki Kashiwagi, Shu-zhong Wang
  • Patent number: 7709518
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, clathrate, or prodrug thereof wherein X, Y, A, Z, L and n are defined herein. These compounds are useful as immunosuppressive agents and for treating and preventing inflammatory conditions and immune disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Shoujun Chen, Jun Jiang, Hao Li, David James, Dinesh Chimmanamada, Christopher Borella, Lijun Sun, Yu Xie, Mats Holmqvist, Jerome Mahiou, Zhi Qiang Xia