Patents Examined by Rebecca L. Anderson
  • Patent number: 7645887
    Abstract: The present invention relates to indolone-acetamide derivatives, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as for the treatment of epilepsy, epileptogenesis, seizure disorders and convulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: UCB Pharma, S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Starck, Benoît Kenda
  • Patent number: 7642379
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the general formula (I) wherein Ar, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, W, a, b, m, n, o and p are as defined in claim 1, and to any enantiomers thereof. The active ingredients have advantageous pesticidal properties. They are particularly suitable for controlling parasites in warm-blooded animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Noëlle Gauvry, Pierre Ducray, Thomas Goebel, Ronald Kaminsky
  • Patent number: 7642289
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nitrooxyderivatives or salts thereof having the following general formula (I): R—NR1c—(K)k0—(B)b0—(C)c0—NO2??(I) wherein c0, b0 and k0 are 0 or 1; R is the radical of an analgesic drug for chronic pain, for instance neurophatic pain; R1c is H or alkyl with from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; B is such that its precursor is selected from amino acids, hydroxy acids, polyalcohol, compounds; C is a bivalent radical containing an aliphatic, heterocyclic or aromatic radical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Nicox S.A.
    Inventors: Ennio Ongini, Nicoletta Almirante, Piero Del Soldata
  • Patent number: 7642254
    Abstract: A compound of formula I: and isomers, salts, solvates, chemically protected forms, and prodrugs thereof, wherein: R1 and R2 together form, along with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, an optionally substituted nitrogen containing heterocyclic ring having from 4 to 8 ring atoms; and R3 is selected from hydroxy and —NRN1RN2, where RN1 and RN2 are independently selected from hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-7 alkyl groups, optionally substituted C3-20 heterocyclyl groups and optionally substituted C5-20 aryl groups, or together form, along with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, an optionally substituted nitrogen containing heterocyclic ring having from 4 to 8 ring atoms, and its use in inhibiting ATM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Kudos Pharmaceuticals Limited
    Inventors: Marc Geoffrey Hummersone, Keith Allan Menear, Laurent Jean Martin Rigoreau, Graeme Cameron Murray Smith, Niall Morrison Barr Martin, Roger John Griffin
  • Patent number: 7642270
    Abstract: The invention addresses the current need for selective and potent protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors by providing potent inhibitors of c-fms kinase. The invention is directed to the novel compounds of Formula I: or a solvate, hydrate, tautomer or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: W, A, Y, Z, R101 and R200 are described in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.
    Inventors: Mark R. Player, Hui Huang, Daniel A. Hutta, Renee L. DesJarlais
  • Patent number: 7638638
    Abstract: Pharmaceuticals, kits and methods are provided for use with DPP-IV and other S9 proteases that comprise a compound with the formula: where the labeled substituents are as described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Takeda San Diego, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Feng, Stephen L. Gwaltney, Jeffrey A. Stafford, Michael B. Wallace, Xiao-Yi Xiao, Zhiyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 7638540
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a benzofuran compound of the formula (I) wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and the like. The compound of the present invention has superior leukotriene inhibitory action, BLT2 competitive inhibitory action, BLT2 blocking action, action for the prophylaxis or treatment of allergy, action for the prophylaxis or treatment of asthma and action for the prophylaxis or treatment of inflammation, and is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of diseases such as allergic disease, asthma, inflammation and the like, and other diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: The New Industry Research Organization
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Oishi, Shigekatsu Kohno, Takehiko Yokomizo
  • Patent number: 7638548
    Abstract: There are provided compounds of the general formulas wherein X, Y, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as described herein. The compounds exhibit anticancer activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Jin-Jun Liu, Zhuming Zhang
  • Patent number: 7638542
    Abstract: A process for preparing 2-amino-6-alkyl-amino-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzothiazoles of formula (I) wherein the asterisk (*) represents an asymmetric carbon and R1 is C1-C6 alkyl; and enantiomers and mixtures thereof, and their solvates, hydrates and pharmaceutically acceptable salts. The process involves (a) reacting with a secondary amine, optionally in the presence of an acid and a first solvent, to form an enamine; (b) optionally removing the acid and first solvent, and then reacting the enamine with sulfur in the presence of a second solvent; and (c) reacting the previously obtained compound with cyanamide to obtain the formula (I) compound. Pramipexole, a dopamine D-2 agonist, can be made by such process, and is useful for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Ragactives, S.L.
    Inventors: Gustavo Pascual Coca, Jorge Martín Juárez
  • Patent number: 7638521
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 3-guanidinocarbonyl-1-heteroaryl-indole derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such derivatives, methods of treatment comprising administering such derivatives, and processes for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: sanofi-aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Werner Kleemann, Jean-Christophe Carry, Pascal Desmazeau, Serge Mignani, Jean Bouquerel, Arielle Genevois-Borella, Baptiste Ronan
  • Patent number: 7635713
    Abstract: Substituted pyrrolidine 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, osteoporosis and other destructive bone disease or disorder, and other diseases and disorders associated with the prostaglandin family of compounds. In a preferred aspect, a substituted pyrrolidine compound is administered to a subject in coordination with a phosphodiesterase inhibitor compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Laboratoires Serono SA
    Inventors: Yihua Liao, Zhong Zhao, Gian Luca Araldi
  • Patent number: 7629473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula IV and their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: H. Lundbeck A/S
    Inventors: Jan Kehler, Karsten Juhl, Morten Bang Norgaard
  • Patent number: 7629467
    Abstract: The instant invention provides compounds of formula: (I) which are 5-lipoxygenase activating protein inhibitors: formula (I). Compounds of formula (I) are useful as anti-atherosclerotic, anti-asthmatic, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory and cyto-protective agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignees: Merck & Co., Inc., Merck Frosst Canada Ltd
    Inventors: Lin Chu, Mark T. Goulet, Feroze Ujjainwalla, Linda Chang, Richard Frenette, Yves Girard, Michel Therien, Dwight Macdonald, John H. Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 7629463
    Abstract: This invention pertains to compounds of Formula I, their N-oxides and suitable salts wherein A is O or S; G is a 5- or 6-membered heteroaromatic ring or a 5- or 6-membered nonaromatic heterocyclic ring optionally including one or two ring members selected from the group consisting of C(?O), SO or S(O)2, each ring optionally substituted with from one to four R2; each J is independently a phenyl ring, a 5- or 6-membered heteroaromatic ring or an aromatic 8-, 9- or 10-membered fused carbobicyclic or heterobicyclic ring system, wherein each ring or ring system is optionally substituted with from one to four R3; and R1, R2, R3, R4 and n are as defined in the disclosure. A composition comprising a compound of Formula I, and a method for controlling an invertebrate pest comprising contacting the invertebrate pest or its environment with a biologically effective amount of a compound of Formula I are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: David Alan Clark, Bruce Lawrence Finkelstein, George Philip Lahm, Thomas Paul Selby, Thomas Martin Stevenson
  • Patent number: 7629370
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and conditions mediated by peroxysome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR?) in a mammal subject in need thereof, said method comprising administration to said mammal a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount wherein in formula (I) W represents a COOH group or its bioisosters, or COO—C1-C4-alkyl group; Y represents NH or N—C1-C10-alkyl; Z represents NH, N—C1-C10-alkyl, N-aryl, N-heteroaryl, S, or O; X represents O, S, NH, N—C1-C10-alkyl, N-aryl, NSO2—C1-C10-alkyl, N—SO2-aryl, or N S02-heteroaryl; R1 to R6 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent defined in the description; A is as defined in the description; n represents an integer from 0 to 4, inclusive. The compounds of formula (I) are the ligands of PPAR-gamma receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Adamed Sp. z o.o.
    Inventors: Zbigniew Majka, Katarzyna Ewa Rusin, Dominik Daniel Kludkiewicz, Krzysztof Kurowski, Katarzyna Joanna Matusiewicz, Tomasz Stawinski, Daniel Sulikowski, Piotr Kowalczyk
  • Patent number: 7629358
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (1) and to processes for the preparation of, intermediates used in the preparation of, compositions containing and the uses of, such derivatives. The compounds according to the present invention are useful in numerous diseases, disorders and conditions, in particular inflammatory, allergic and respiratory diseases, disorders and conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc
    Inventors: Alan Daniel Brown, Charlotte Alice Louise Lane, Paul Alan Glossop, David Anthony Price, Russell Andrew Lewthwaite, Mark Edward Bunnage, Kim James, Graham Lunn
  • Patent number: 7629339
    Abstract: Alkoxy indolinone based acid and amide derivatives have enhanced and unexpected drug properties as inhibitors of protein kinases and are useful in treating disorders related to abnormal protein kinase activities such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Congxin Liang, Yangbo Feng
  • Patent number: 7626041
    Abstract: The present invention relates to carvedilol phosphate salts, which include novel crystalline forms of carvedilol dihydrogen phosphate (i.e., dihydrogen phosphate salt of 1-(carbazol-4-yloxy-3-[[2-(o-methoxyphenoxy) ethyl]amino]-2-propanol) and/or carvedilol hydrogen phosphate, etc.), and/or solvates thereof, compositions containing the aforementioned salts and/or solvates, and methods of using the aforementioned salts and/or solvates to treat hypertension, congestive heart failure and angina, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham (Cork) Ltd
    Inventors: Christopher S. Brook, Wei Chen, Philip C. Dell'orco, Lee M. Katrincic, Ann Marie Louvet, Choon K. Oh, Paul G. Spoors, Christopher Werner
  • Patent number: 7626040
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new substituted imidazole compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters or prodrugs thereof, compositions of the derivatives together with pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, and uses of the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Barsanti, Yi Xia, Weibo Wang, Kris G. Mendenhall, Liana M. Lagniton, Savithri Ramurthy, Megan C. Phillips, Sharadha Subramanian, Rustum Boyce, Nathan M. Brammeier, Ryan Constantine, David Duhl, Annette O. Walter, Tinya J. Abrams, Paul A. Renhowe
  • Patent number: 7626115
    Abstract: Disclosed are a novel dye, having a dispersant functional group to simultaneously exhibit a dye function and a dispersant function, and a dye-sensitized solar cell including the same. According to this invention, the dye may simultaneously manifest a dye function for absorbing light, made possible by being adsorbed on the entire surface of metal oxide particles, to thus produce excited electrons which are then transferred into a conduction band of metal oxide, and a dispersant function for preventing the agglomeration of the particles to thus improve the uniformity of the metal oxide particles in a paste and film density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Sung Lee, Won Cheol Jung, Sang Cheol Park, Young Jun Park, Jung Gyu Nam, Jin Young Bae