Patents Examined by Kahsay T. Habte
  • Patent number: 7538108
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides prodrugs of biologically active 2,4-pyrimidinediamine compounds of structural formula shown below, compositions comprising these compounds, intermediates and methods for synthesizing these compounds, and methods of using these compounds in a variety of applications including treatment of autoimmune diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajinder Singh, Esteban Masuda, Somasekhar Bhamidipati, Thomas Sun, Valentino J. Stella
  • Patent number: 7538107
    Abstract: Compounds of the following structure are described: wherein R1-R6, m, V, X, Y, Z and Q are described herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer, metabolite or prodrug thereof. These compounds are useful for treating a variety of hormone-related conditions including contraception, treating or preventing fibroids, endometriosis, dysfunctional bleeding, uterine leiomyomata, polycystic ovary syndrome, or hormone-dependent carcinomas, providing hormone replacement therapy, stimulating food intake or synchronizing estrus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Thomas Joseph Commons, Andrew Fensome, Gavin David Heffernan, Casey Cameron McComas, Richard Page Woodworth, Jr., Michael Byron Webb, Michael Anthony Marella, Edward George Melenski, Ronald Charles Bernotas
  • Patent number: 7538112
    Abstract: Hydroxy-substituted pyrazinopyrrolopyridazine dione compounds are inhibitors of HIV integrase and inhibitors of HIV replication. In one embodiment, the dione compounds are of Formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are defined herein. The compounds are useful in the prevention and treatment of infection by HIV and in the prevention, delay in the onset, and treatment of AIDS. The compounds are employed against HIV infection and AIDS as compounds per se or in the form of pharmaceutically acceptable salts. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: John S. Wai, Joseph P. Vacca, Linghang Zhuang, Boyoung Kim, Terry A. Lyle, Catherine M. Wiscount, Melissa S. Egbertson, Lou Anne Neilson, Mark Embrey, Thorsten E. Fisher, Donnette D. Staas
  • Patent number: 7538105
    Abstract: Compounds having the formula are hepatitis C(HCV) polymerase inhibitors. Also disclosed are a composition and method for inhibiting hepatitis C(HCV) polymerase, processes for making the compounds, and synthetic intermediates employed in the processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Douglas K. Hutchinson, John R. Bellettini, David A. Betebenner, Richard D. Bishop, Thomas B. Borchardt, Todd D. Bosse, Russell D. Cink, Charles A. Flentge, Bradley D. Gates, Brian E. Green, Mira M. Hinman, Peggy P. Huang, Larry L. Klein, Allan C. Krueger, Daniel P. Larson, M. Robert Leanna, Dachun Liu, Darold L. Madigan, Keith F. McDaniel, John T. Randolph, Todd W. Rockway, Teresa A. Rosenberg, Kent D. Stewart, Vincent S. Stoll, Rolf Wagner, Ming C. Yeung
  • Patent number: 7534785
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I, in which R1, R2, Q and B have the meanings indicated in claim 1, are inhibitors of tyrosine kinases, in particular Met kinase, and can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of tumours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft
    Inventors: Oliver Schadt, Dieter Dorsch, Melanie Schultz, Andree Blaukat
  • Patent number: 7534789
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enantiomerically pure compounds of formula 1 wherein the groups m, n, B, X, R1, m and Ym? may have the meanings given in the claims and specification, methods for preparing them and their use as pharmaceutical compositions, particularly as pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of respiratory complaints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Ries, Peter Sieger
  • Patent number: 7534787
    Abstract: A method of treating or preventing of a disease or condition associated with an increased level of isoforms of amyloid ? peptides (A?) and/or with a changed ratio of levels of A? isoforms and/or with the formation of plaques containing amyloid ? peptide (A?) isoforms in a mammal comprising administering to said mammal an therapeutically effective amount of a compound selected from the formulas Ia, Ib wherein V, W, Y, R2, R3, R5, R6, L1 and i are defined as in claim 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Bornemann, Guenter Trummlitz, Bernd Beck, Frank Sams-Dodd, Dagmar Kugler, Klaus Klinder, Cornelia Dorner-Ciossek, Marcus Kostka
  • Patent number: 7531534
    Abstract: Compounds having the formula Ia or Ib wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined herein are Hepatitis C virus NS5b polymerase inhibitors. Also disclosed are compositions and methods for treating an HCV infection and inhibiting HCV replication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Roche Palo Alto LLC
    Inventors: Jay Bradford Fell, Peter Mohr, Peter J. Stengel
  • Patent number: 7531549
    Abstract: Phenylalanine enamide derivatives of formula (1) are described: wherein R1 is a group Ar1L2Ar2Alk- in which: Ar1 is an optionally substituted aromatic or heteroaromatic group; L2 is a covalent bond or a linker atom or group; Ar2 is an optionally substituted arylene or heteroarylene group; and Alk is a chain —CH2—CH(R)—, —CH?C(R)— or in which R is a carboxylic acid (—CO2H) or a derivative or biostere thereof; X is an —O— or —S— atom or —N(R2)— group in which: Rx, Ry and Rz which may be the same or different is each a hydrogen atom or an optional substituent; or Rz is an atom or group as previously defined and Rx and Ry are joined together to form an optionally substituted spiro linked cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic group; and the salts, solvates, hydrates and N-oxides thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: UCB Pharma, S.A.
    Inventors: Stephen Brand, Stuart Bailey, Julien A. Brown, James A. Johnson, John R. Porter, John C. Head
  • Patent number: 7531533
    Abstract: A compound represented by the general formula (I) or a salt thereof: [T represents oxygen atom and the like; V represents CH2 and the like; R01 to R04 represent hydrogen atom and the like; A represents a linear alkylene group or linear alkenylene group having 2 to 8 carbon atoms and the like; D represents carboxyl group and the like; X represents ethylene group, trimethylene group and the like; E represents —CH(OH)— group and the like; and W represent —U1—(RW1)(RW2)—U2—U3 group (U1 represents a single bond, an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and the like; RW1 and RW2 represent hydrogen atom and the like; U2 represents a single bond, an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and the like; and U3 represent an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms and the like), or a residue of a carbon ring or heterocyclic compound], which can be utilized as an active ingredient of medicaments effective for prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of skeletal diseases such as osteoporosis and fracture, glauco
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation
    Inventors: Motoshi Shoda, Toshinori Ishizuya
  • Patent number: 7528149
    Abstract: This invention concerns compounds of formula (I) prodrugs, addition salts, or stereochemically isomeric forms thereof for use as, inter alia, respiratory syncytial virus replication inhibitors; their preparation, compositions containing them and methods of their use in treating respiratory syncytial viral infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.
    Inventors: Frans Eduard Janssens, Kathleen Petrus Marie-José Meersman, François Maria Sommen, Koenraads Jozef Lodewijk Marcell Andries
  • Patent number: 7524956
    Abstract: Methods are provided for preparing a compound with a fused ring structure of formula (XIV) which comprises one or more reactions starting from a 21-cyano compound of formula (XVI) where typically; R1 is an amidomethylene group or an acyloxymethylene group; R5 and R8 are independently chosen from —H, —OH or —OCOCH2OH, or R5 and R8 are both keto and the ring A is a p-benzoquinone ring; R14a and R14b are both —H ozone is —H and the other is —OH, —OCH3 or —OCH2CH3, or R14a and R14b together form a keto group; and R15 and R18 are independently chosen from —H or —OH, or R5 and R8 are both keto and the ring A is a p-benzoquinone ring. In modified starting materials, the 21-cyano group can be replaced by other groups introduced using nucleophilic reagents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Pharma Mar, S.A.
    Inventors: Carmen Cuevas, Marta Perez, Andres Francesch, Carolina Fernandez, Jose Luis Chicharro, Pilar Gallego, Maria Zarzuelo, Fernando de Calle, Ignacio Manzanares
  • Patent number: 7524953
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel triphendioxazine pigments of formula (I) wherein X represents hydrogen or chlorine, while R1 represents phenyl substituted by one to five radicals from the group comprising C1-C4-alkyl, halogen, C1-C4-alkoxy, acetylamino, aminocarbonyl, methylaminocarbonyl and C1-C4-alkoxycarbonyl, or phenyl annelated in the 2,3- or 3,4- with a divalent radical of the formula —NH—(CO)m—NR2—, —CR2?CH—CO—NH—, —CR2?N—CO—NH—, —CO—NH—CO—NR2—, —CO—(NH)m—CO— or —O—(CO)m—NH— so as to form a five- or six-membered ring, R2 representing hydrogen, methyl, ethyl or phenyl and m representing 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventors: David Blum, Carsten Plueg, Tanja Reipen
  • Patent number: 7517876
    Abstract: Compounds having the formula are hepatitis C (HCV) polymerase inhibitors. Also disclosed are compositions and methods for inhibiting hepatitis C (HCV) polymerase, processes for making the compounds, and synthetic intermediates employed in the processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Larry L. Klein, Peggy P. Huang, John T. Randolph, Douglas K. Hutchinson, Ming C. Yeung, Charles A. Flentge
  • Patent number: 7514429
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Benzoxazinone-derived compounds of general formula (I), methods for their preparation, medicaments comprising these compounds as well as their use for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of humans or animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: ESTEVE Laboratorios Dr. Esteve S.A.
    Inventors: Antoni Torrens Jover, Jose Aurelio Castrillo Perez, Jordi Frigola Constansa, Josep Mas Prió, Alberto Dordal Zueras, Maria Angeles Fisas Escasany
  • Patent number: 7514427
    Abstract: HIV inhibitory compounds of formula: salts and stereoisomers thereof, wherein R1 and R2 are hydrogen or optionally substituted C1-10alkyl; R3 is n is 1, 2 or 3; R3a is nitro, cyano, amino, halo, hydroxy, C1-4alkyloxy, hydroxycarbonyl, aminocarbonyl, C 1-4alkyloxycarbonyl, mono- or di(C1-4alkyl)aminocarbonyl, C1-4alkylcarbonyl, methanimidamidyl, mono- or di(C1-4alkyl)methanimidamidyl, N-hydroxy-methanimidamidyl or Het; or R3 is a monocyclic or bicyclic aromatic heterocyclic ring system, wherein one, two, three or four ring members are nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, and wherein the remaining ring members are carbon atoms; and wherein each of said heterocyclic ring systems may optionally be substituted; X is —NR7—, —O— or —S—; pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, methods for preparing these compounds and compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Tibotec Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Bart Rudolf Romanie Kesteleyn, Pierre Jean-Marie Raboisson, Wim Van De Vreken, Maxime Francis Jean-Marie Ghislain Canard
  • Patent number: 7511053
    Abstract: The present invention relates to optionally substituted 1-oxa-3,8-diaza-spiro[4.5]decan-2-one compounds as monoamine receptor modulators; compositions comprising the same; methods of inhibiting an activity of a monoamine receptor with said compounds; methods of treating a disease condition associated with a monoamine receptor using said compounds; and methods for identifying a subject suitable for treatment using said compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Nathalie Schlienger
  • Patent number: 7511035
    Abstract: Naphthyridine and quinoline derivatives useful in the treatment of bacterial infections in mammals, particularly humans, are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Glaxo Group Limited
    Inventors: William Henry Miller, Meagan B. Rouse, Mark Andrew Seefeld
  • Patent number: 7511071
    Abstract: Thioamide compounds, and specifically, thioamide pyrrole compounds, and preparation thereof are provided. These thioamide compounds can be used as progesterone receptor modulators, in contraception, and in the treatment of progesterone-related maladies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventor: Bogdan Kazimierz Wilk
  • Patent number: 7511036
    Abstract: Provided are compounds of the formula (and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof): wherein: R is hydrogen, methyl, hydroxymethyl or ?-hydroxyethyl; R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 hydroxyalkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, C1-C6 alkenyl, C1-C6 alkynyl, amino, monoalkylamino, dialkylaminoalkyl, and pyrrolidin-1-ylalkyl; and Y is selected from the group consisting of C1-C6 alkyl, substituted and unsubstituted aryl; with the provisos that: (a) if Y is aryl, then at least one of R1 and R2 is other than hydrogen, and (b) if R2 is hydrogen R1 is other than methyl. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and methods for the preparation of the compounds. The compounds are useful, among other things, as prodrugs which can be converted under acidic conditions to thiazolium agents. The compounds can be administered to mammals, including humans, for treatment of various indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Synvista Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Reinhard, Elliot Katten