Patents Examined by Joseph McKane
  • Patent number: 7459558
    Abstract: A method of treating in a warm-blooded animal comprising administering to a warm-blooded animal in need thereof an amount of a compound of the formula wherein the substituents are defined in accordance with the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Societe de Conseils de Recherches et d'Applications Scientifiques (S.C.R.A.S.)
    Inventors: Pierre Etienne Chabrier de Lassauniere, Serge Auvin, Dennis Bigg, Michel Auquet, Jeremiah Harnett
  • Patent number: 7446122
    Abstract: Provided herein are indole derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, methods for their use, and methods for preparing these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Cephalon, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Chao, Gary T. Elliott, Lorenzo Leoni
  • Patent number: 7446125
    Abstract: This invention relates to nitroproline derivative compounds and procedures for their preparation and the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds. The invention also relates to the administration of compounds of the invention as agents for the treatment of mammalian diseases whose pathogenic and pathophysiological mechanisms depend on or are significantly contributed by undesirable cellular and molecular activities or responses induced by integrin-dependent molecular interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignees: Universidad del Pais Vasco, Dominion Pharmakine S.L.
    Inventors: Fernando Pedro Cossio, Eneko Aldaba Arévalo, Yosu Ion Vara Salazr, Aizpea Zubia Olascoaga, Silvia Vivanco Amato, Miren Lorea Mendoza Arteche, María Valcárcel Cuesta, Fernando Vidal Vanaclocha
  • Patent number: 7442790
    Abstract: This invention provides caspase inhibitors of formula I: wherein Z is oxygen or sulfur; R1 is hydrogen, —CHN2, R, CH2OR, CH2SR, or —CH2Y; between R3 and R4 represents a single or double bond; Y is an electronegative leaving group; R2 is CO2H, CH2CO2H, or esters, amides or isosteres thereof; R3is a group capable of fitting into the S2 subsite of a caspase enzyme; R4 is a hydrogen or C1-6 alkyl or R3 and R4 taken together form a ring; Ring A and Ring B are each heterocyclic rings, and R and R5 are as described in the specification. The compounds are effective inhibitors of apoptosis and IL-1? secretion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Mortimore, Andrew Miller, John Studley, Jean-Damien Charrier
  • Patent number: 7442803
    Abstract: An object is to provide an aromatic amine compound with excellent heat resistance. Another object is to provide a light emitting element, a light emitting device, and an electronic device with excellent heat resistance. An aromatic amine compound represented by General Formula (1) is provided. The aromatic amine compound represented by General Formula (1) has a high glass transition point and excellent heat resistance. By using the aromatic amine compound represented by General Formula (1) for a light emitting element, a light emitting device, and an electronic device, a light emitting element, a light emitting device, and an electronic device with excellent heat resistance can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Harue Nakashima, Sachiko Kawakami, Satoko Shitagaki, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 7435750
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to substituted 3-aryl-5-aryl-[1,2,4]-oxadiazoles and analogs thereof, represented by the Formula I: wherein Ar1, Ar3, A, B and D are defined herein. The present invention also relates to the discovery that compounds having Formula I are activators of caspases and inducers of apoptosis. Therefore, the activators of caspases and inducers of apoptosis of this invention may be used to induce cell death in a variety of clinical conditions in which uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Cytovia, Inc.
    Inventors: Sui Xiong Cai, Han-Zhong Zhang, John A. Drewe, P. Sanjeeva Reddy, Shailaja Kasibhatla, Jared Daniel Kuemmerle, Kristin P. Ollis
  • Patent number: 7432381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 1,3-oxathiolane-2-thione compounds of the general formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are the same or different, each of which denotes a straight-chain or branched alkoxy residue with 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aryloxy or aralkyloxy residue, R3 is different or the same as R1 or R2 or an aliphatic residue, an amino residue, a halogen residue, an aromatic or heteroaromatic residue, or an araliphatic or heteroaraliphatic residue, R4 is a bridging group selected from the groups consisting of aliphatic, heteroaliphatic, araliphatic, heteroaraliphatic, aromatic and heteroaromatic groups and R5 is hydrogen, an aliphatic, heteroaliphatic, araliphatic, heteroaraliphatic, aromatic, heteroaromatic, cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic group or R4 and R5 form a cycloaliphatic, cycloheteroaliphatic, aromatic or heteroaromatic residue, which is optionally substituted with an aliphatic, heteroaliphatic residue serving as a bridging group to the silicon atom and X and Y are different and sele
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Kazuya Uenishi, Atsushi Sudo, Hiroshi Morikawa, Takeshi Endo, Olaf Lammerschop, Thomas Huver, Pavel Gentschev
  • Patent number: 7429608
    Abstract: Substituted benzimidazoles and compositions containing them, for the treatment of acute, inflammatory and neuropathic pain, dental pain, general headache, migraine, cluster headache, mixed-vascular and non-vascular syndromes, tension headache, general inflammation, arthritis, rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disorders, inflammatory eye disorders, inflammatory or unstable bladder disorders, psoriasis, skin complaints with inflammatory components, chronic inflammatory conditions, inflammatory pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, neuropathic pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, diabetic neuropathy pain, causalgia, sympathetically maintained pain, deafferentation syndromes, asthma, epithelial tissue damage or dysfunction, herpes simplex, disturbances of visceral motility at respiratory, genitourinary, gastrointestinal or vascular regions, wounds, burns, allergic skin reactions, pruritus, vitiligo, general gastrointestinal disorders, gastric ulceration, duodenal ulcers,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Mark H. Norman, Vassil I. Ognyanov, Xianghong Wang
  • Patent number: 7429661
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel process for preparation of 5 aminomethyl substituted oxazolidinones, key intermediates for oxazolidinone antibacterials including linezolid. Thus, the key intermediate of linezolid is prepared by a) reacting N-[3-Chloro-2-(R)-hydroxypropyl]-3-fluoro-4-morpholinyl aniline with potassium phthalimide; b) subjecting N-[3-pthalimido-2-(R)-hydroxypropyl]-3-fluoro-4-(morpholinyl) aniline produced in the above step to carbonylation; and c) reacting (S)-N-[[3-[3-Fluoro-4-[4-morpholinyl]phenyl]-2-oxo-5-oxazolidiriyl]methyl]phthalimide produced in the above step with hydrazine hydrate to produce (S)-N-[[3-[3-Fluoro-4-[4-morpholinyl]phenyl]-2-oxo-5-oxazolidinyl]methyl]amine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Symed Labs Limited
    Inventors: Dodda Mohan Rao, Pingili Krishna Reddy
  • Patent number: 7423057
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel compounds that can be used as anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and antiproliferatory agents. In particular, the invention refers to new compounds which inhibit dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH), a process for their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and to their use for the treatment and prevention of diseases, in particular their use in diseases where there is an advantage in inhibiting dihydroorotate dehyrogenase (DHODH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: 4SC AG
    Inventors: Johan Leban, Bernd Kramer, Wael Saeb, Gabriel Garcia
  • Patent number: 7423156
    Abstract: This invention relates to certain aryl alkyl acid compounds, compositions, and methods for treating or preventing obesity and related diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Smith, Ann-Marie Campbell, Philip Coish, Miao Dai, Susan Jenkins, Derek Lowe, Stephen O'Connor, Ning Su, Gan Wang, Mingbao Zhang, Lei Zhu
  • Patent number: 7419999
    Abstract: 1,2-substituted 5-pyrrolidinone compounds are provided, and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical composition that utilize or comprise one or more such compounds. Compounds of the invention are useful for a variety of therapies, including treating or preventing preterm labor, dysmenorrhea, asthma, hypertension, infertility or fertility disorder, undesired blood clotting, preeclampsia or eclampsia, an eosinophil disorder, sexual dysfunction, osteporosis and other destructive bone disease or disorder, renal dysfunction, an immune deficiency disorder, dry eye, ichthyosis, elevated intraocular pressure, sleep disorder, or gastric ulcer, inflammatory disorders and other diseases and disorders associated with the prostaglandin family of compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Applied Research Systems ARS Holding N.V.
    Inventors: Gian Luca Araldi, Adulla P. Reddy, Zhong Zhao, Sean D. McKenna, Bagna Bao
  • Patent number: 7419970
    Abstract: The invention concerns novel compounds of the N-acylamino-amide family, compositions, in particular cosmetic or pharmaceutical, containing them, and their use for treating body or face skin ageing, whether chronobiologic or light-induced, and in particular skin ageing caused by decrease of skin elasticity and/or by collagen degradation in the structure of tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Maria Dalko, Yann Mahe, Lionel Breton
  • Patent number: 7414134
    Abstract: The invention encompasses novel compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment of diseases mediated by B1 bradykinin receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Benny C. Askew, Jr., Jian J. Chen, Derin C. D'Amico, Thomas Nguyen, Kevin Yang
  • Patent number: 7405305
    Abstract: The present invention provides kinase inhibitors of Formula (I)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Pamela Ann Albaugh, Jochen Ammenn, Timothy Paul Burkholder, Joshua Ryan Clayton, Scott Eugene Conner, Brian Eugene Cunningham, Thomas Albert Engler, Kelly Wayne Furness, James Robert Henry, Sushant Malhotra, Mark Joseph Tebbe, Guoxin Zhu, YiHong Li, Brian Raymond Berridge, Charles Edward Ruegg, John Morris Sullivan
  • Patent number: 7402605
    Abstract: An 8-azaprostaglandin represented by formula (I) (wherein all symbols have the same meanings as described in the specification), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a cyclodextrin clathrate thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kousuke Tani, Kaoru Kobayashi, Toru Maruyama, Tohru Kambe, Mikio Ogawa, Tsutomu Shiroya
  • Patent number: 7399577
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) or (II) wherein R1 is C1-C10haloalkylsulfonyl, halobenzenesulfonyl, C2- C10haloalkanoyl, halobenzoyl; R2 is halogen or C1-C10 haloalkyl; Arl is phenyl, biphenylyl, fluorenyl, naphthyl, anthracyl, phenanthryl, or heteroaryl, all of which are optionally substituted; Ar?1 is for example phenylene, naphthylene, diphonylene, heteroarylene, oxydiphenylene, phenyleneD-D1-D-phenylene or —Ar?1-A1—Y1-A1—Ar?1—; wherein these radicals optionally are substituted; Ae?, is phenylene, naphthylene, anthracylene, phenanthrylene, or heteroarylene, all optionally substituted; A, is for example a direct bond, —0—, —S—, or —NR6—; Y, inter alia is C1-C18alkylene; X is halogen; D is for example —0—, —S— or —NR6—; D, inter alia is C1-C18alkylene; are particularly suitable as photolatent acids in ArF resist technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamato, Toshikage Asakura, Akira Matsumoto, Peter Murer, Tobias Hintermann
  • Patent number: 7399778
    Abstract: Compounds useful for lowering beta amyloid levels are provided. The compounds have the structure of formula Ia: wherein, R1 is lower alkyl, substituted lower alkyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, benzyl, substituted benzyl, benzyloxy, substituted benzyloxy, or SO2R5; R5 is phenyl, substituted phenyl, heterocycle, substituted heterocycle, alkyl, or substituted alkyl; R2 is lower alkyl, substituted lower alkyl, CF3, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, alkynyl, substituted alkynyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, or cycloalkyl; R3 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, or substituted lower alkyl; R4 is phenyl, substituted phenyl, heterocycle, substituted heterocycle, thiophene, or substituted thiophene; R6 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, substituted lower alkyl, CF3, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, alkynyl, substituted alkynyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, cycloalkyl, or substituted cycloalkyl; W, X and Y are independently CR7 or N; and R7 is hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl, or substituted lower alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Lynn Resnick, Donna M. Huryn, Joan E. Sabalski, Joshua D. Berkowitz, Anthony Frank Kreft, Dennis Martin Kubrak, Thomas Joseph Caggiano, Koi Michele Morris
  • Patent number: 7399868
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula 1 where the variables have the meaning defined in the specification are agonists of alpha2 adrenergic receptors. Several compounds of the disclosure are specific or selective to alpha2B and/or alpha2C adrenergic receptors in preference over alpha2A adrenergic receptors. Additionally some of the claimed compounds have no or only minimal cardivascular and/or sedatory activity. The compounds of Formula 1 are useful as medicaments in mammals, including humans, for treatment of diseases and or alleviations of conditions which are responsive to treatment by agonists of alpha2 adrenergic receptors. Compounds of Formula 1 which have no significant cardiovascular and/or sedatory activity are useful for treating pain and other conditions with minimal side effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd M. Heidelbaugh, Ken Chow, Phong X. Nguyen, Daniel W. Gil, John E. Donello, Michael E. Garst, Larry A. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 7399780
    Abstract: The present invention provides new compounds of formula Ia and Ib: as well as a process for their preparation and new intermediates used therein, pharmaceutical formulations containing said therapeutically active compounds and to the use of said active compounds in therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Stefan Berg, Sven Hellberg, Martin Nylöf, Yafeng Xue