Patents Examined by Robert W. Ramsuer
  • Patent number: 6380219
    Abstract: A compound of the formula wherein n, X, R3, R4 and Ar are as defined above, useful in the treatment of a condition selected from the group consisting of arthritis, cancer, tissue ulceration, restenosis, periodontal disease, epidermolysis bullosa, scleritis and other diseases characterized by matrix metalloproteinase activity, AIDS, sepsis, septic shock and other diseases involving the production of TNF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc
    Inventors: Ralph P. Robinson, James P. Rizzi
  • Patent number: 6380239
    Abstract: 1-Oxo- and 1,3-dioxoisoindolines substituted in the 4- or 5-position of the indoline ring reduce the levels of inflammatory cytokines such as TNF&agr; in a mammal. A typical embodiment is 4-(4-amino-1,3-dioxoisoindolin-2-yl)-4-carbamoylbutanoic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Celgene Corporation
    Inventors: George W. Muller, David Stirling
  • Patent number: 6380191
    Abstract: Substituted 5-aryl-2,4-thiazolidinediones and oxazolidinediones are potent agonists of PPAR, and are therefore useful in the treatment, control or prevention of diabetes, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia (including hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia), atherosclerosis, obesity, vascular restenosis, and other PPAR &agr; and/or &ggr; mediated diseases, disorders and conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Merck & Co. Inc.
    Inventors: Ranjit C. Desai, Soumya P. Sahoo, Jeffrey P. Bergman, Victoria K. Lombardo, Edward J. Metzger, Hiroo Koyama
  • Patent number: 6372773
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel aromatic heterocyclic compounds of the formula(I) wherein Ar1,Ar2,L,Q and X are described herein. The compounds are useful in pharmaceutic compositions for treating diseases or pathological conditions involving inflammation such as chronic inflammatory diseases. Also disclosed are processes of making such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: John R. Regan
  • Patent number: 6372777
    Abstract: Pyrrole compounds that are potent and selective inhibitors of PDE4, as well as methods of making the same, are disclosed. Use of the compounds in the treatment of inflammatory diseases and other diseases involving elevated levels of cytokines, as well as central nervous system (CNS) disorders, also is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: ICOS Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy J. Martins, Kerry W. Fowler, Amy Oliver, Carmen C. Hertel
  • Patent number: 6372739
    Abstract: Compounds that modulate gene expression through the estrogen receptor (ER) are disclosed having the following structure, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing the same: wherein R1, R2, R3, n and p are as defined here. Methods are also disclosed for modulating ER in cells and/or tissues expressing the same, such as bone, breast, prostate, uterus, CNS or the cardiovascular system. Methods for treating estrogen-related conditions are also disclosed, including conditions such as is breast cancer, osteoporosis, endometriosis, cardiovascular disease, hypercholesterolemia, prostatic hypertrophy, prostatic carcinomas, obesity, hot flashes, skin effects, mood swings, memory loss, and adverse reproductive effects associated with exposure to environmental chemicals or natural hormonal imbalances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Signal Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernd M. Stein, David Wesley Anderson, Leah M. Gayo-Fung, Mary Doubleday, Graziella I. Shevlin, Adam Kois, Sak Khammungkhune, Ravi Kumar Jalluri, Shripad S. Bhagwat, Jeffrey A. McKie
  • Patent number: 6369224
    Abstract: A compound of formula wherein n is 0 or 1; m is 0 or 1; p is 0 or 1; X is oxygen or sulfur; Y is CH, N or NO; W is oxygen, H2 or F2; A is N or C(R2); G is N or C(R3); D is N or C(R4); with the proviso that no more than one of A, G, and D is nitrogen, but at least one of Y, A, G, and D is nitrogen or NO; R1 is hydrogen or C1 to C4 alkyl; R2, R3, and R4 are independently hydrogen, halogen, C1-C4 alkyl, C2-C4 alkenyl, C2-C4 alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, OH, OC1-C4 alkyl, CO2R1, —CN, —NO2, —NR5R6, —CF3, —OSO2CF3 or R2 and R3, or R3 and R4, respectively, may together form another six membered aromatic or heteroaromatic ring sharing A and G, or G and D, respectively, containing between zero and two nitrogen atoms, and substituted with one to two of the following substituents: independently hydrogen, halogen, C1-C4 alkyl, C2-C4 alkenyl, C2-C4 alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, OH, OC1-C4 alkyl, CO2R1, —CN, —NO2, —NR5R6, —CF3, —OSO2CF3; R5 and R6
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Astra Zeneca AB
    Inventors: Eifion Phillips, Robert Mack, John Macor, Simon Semus
  • Patent number: 6369093
    Abstract: Novel pyrazole-carboxanilides of the formula in which X, Y, m and n are each as defined in the description, a process for preparing these substances and their use for controlling undesirable microorganisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Ludwig Elbe, Astrid Mauler-Machnik, Klaus Stenzel, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Martin Kugler, Thomas Jaetsch
  • Patent number: 6365617
    Abstract: The invention is directed to novel indole and indazole urea-peptoid compounds which are useful as thrombin receptor antagonists for the treatment of diseases associated with thrombosis, restenosis, hypertension, heart failure, arrhythmia, inflammation, angina, stroke, atherosclerosis, ischemic conditions, Angiogenesis related disorders, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the substituted indole and indazole urea-peptoid compounds of the present invention and methods of treating conditions mediated by the thrombin receptor are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.
    Inventors: David F. McComsey, William J. Hoekstra, Bruce E. Maryanoff, Han-Cheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 6365552
    Abstract: Substituted 3-phenylpyrazoles of the formula I Salts thereof and use as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christoph-Sweder von dem Bussche-Hünnefeld, Ralf Klintz, Gerhard Hamprecht, Elisabeth Heistracher, Peter Schäfer, Peter Münster, Klaus Ditrich, Hartmann König, Karl-Otto Westphalen, Matthias Gerber, Helmut Walter
  • Patent number: 6362357
    Abstract: This invention provides a process for conducting Stille coupling reactions. The processes of the present invention make use of N-heterocyclic carbenes as ancillary ligands in Stille couplings of aryl halides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: University of New Orleans Research & Technology Foundation
    Inventors: Steven P. Nolan, Jinkun Huang, Mark L. Trudell, Chunming Zhang
  • Patent number: 6362210
    Abstract: Carboxylic acid amides of general formula which inhibit telomerase and are useful for treating tumour diseases such as carcinomas, sarcomas and leukaemias. Exemplary compounds are: (1) trans-3-(naphth-2-yl)-but-2-enoic acid-N-(2-carboxy-phenyl)-amide, and, (2) trans-3-(naphth-2-yl)-but-2-enoic acid-N-(2-carboxy-4,5-dimethoxy-phenyl)-amide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG
    Inventors: Norbert Hauel, Henning Priepke, Klaus Damm, Andreas Schnapp
  • Patent number: 6362334
    Abstract: The present invention includes a number of novel intermediates such as the (S)-secondary alcohol of formula (VIIIA) X2—CH2—C*H(OH)—CH2—NH—CO—RN  (VIIIA) and processes for production of pharmacologically useful oxazolidinones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventor: Bruce Allen Pearlman
  • Patent number: 6362344
    Abstract: Chiral aminoalcohol catalysts and methods for their preparation are provided. The first catalyst is prepared via selective hydrogenation of one of two benzene rings in a precursor. The aminoalcohol promotes the asymmetric addition of organozinc reagents to aldehydes to afford optically active alcohols or their esters. The second catalyst is prepared by selective dialkylation of 3-exo-aminoisoborneol with a 2-haloethyl ether. The aminoalcohol promotes the addition of organozinc reagents to aliphatic aldehydes containing a &bgr;-branch with greatly enhanced enantioselectivity relative to DAIB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharma Company
    Inventor: William A. Nugent
  • Patent number: 6362231
    Abstract: A novel calcium receptor active compound having the formula is provided: Ar1—[CR1R2]P—X—[CR3R4]q—[CR5R6]—NR7—[CR8R9]—Ar2 wherein: Ar1 is selected from the group consisting of aryl, heteroaryl, bis(arylmethyl)amino, bis(heteroarylmethyl)amino and arylmethyl(heteroarylmethyl)amino; X is selected from the group consisting of oxygen, sulfur, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, carbonyl and amino; R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8 and R9 are, for example, hydrogen or alkyl; Ar2 is selected from the group consisting of aryl and heteroaryl; p is an integer of from 0 to 6, inclusive; and, q is an integer of from 0 to 14, inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruyuki Sakai, Atsuya Takami, Rika Nagao
  • Patent number: 6359148
    Abstract: The invention described novel compounds of formula wherein the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, as stabilisers for protecting organic materials, in particular polymers and lubricants, against thermal, oxidative or light-induced degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Inventors: Peter Nesvadba, Samuel Evans, Christoph Kröhnke, Jürg Zingg
  • Patent number: 6358949
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula: or the pharmaceutically acceptable non-toxic salts thereof wherein: A, B, C and D are N or CH; X is a bond or (un)substituted CH2; R1 is lower alkenyl or (un)substituted lower alkyl; R3 is lower alkyl; and R2, R4, R5, and R6 are variables defined herein; which compounds are useful in the diagnosis and treatment of renal diseases, heart failure, hypertension, Meniere's disease, vaginal inflammation and pain, peripheral circulatory disorders, climacteric disturbance, retinochoroidal circulatroy disorders, myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, postmyocardial infarction syndrome, angina pectoris, restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, ileus, diabetes, diabetic complications, male infertility or glaucoma, or for the increase of permeability of blood-brain barrier, pain, asthma, and rhinitis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Neurogen Corporation
    Inventors: Robert W. DeSimone, Alan Hutchison, Kenneth Shaw, George D. Maynard, John M. Peterson, Richard Lew, Harry L. Brielmann
  • Patent number: 6355636
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds of formula I having the structure useful as inhibitors of protein tyrosine kinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: American Cyanamid Company
    Inventors: Allan Wissner, Philip R. Hamann, Ayako Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6353116
    Abstract: Novel pyrroles, pyrazoles and triazoles, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and their use as endothelin receptor antagonists are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Juan Ignacio Luengo, John Duncan Elliott
  • Patent number: 6353109
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula or the pharmaceutically acceptable non-toxic salts thereof wherein: W represents substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl; T is hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, amino or alkyl; X is hydrogen, hydroxy, or lower alkyl; m is 0, 1, or 2; n is 0, 1, or 2; and R3 and R4 represent substituted or unsubstituted organic residues. These compounds are highly selective agonists, antagonists or inverse agonists for GABAa brain receptors or prodrugs of agonists, antagonists or inverse agonists for GABAa brain receptors. These compounds are useful in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety, sleep and seizure disorders, overdose with benzodiazepine drugs and for enhancement of memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Neurogen Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela Albaugh, Gang Liu, Alan Hutchison