Patents Examined by Robert W. Ramsuer
  • Patent number: 6677337
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds which are capable of preventing the extracellular release of inflammatory cytokines, said compounds, or enantiomeric and diasteriomeric forms or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, have the formula: wherein R is an ether or amino unit, R1 is substituted phenyl, each R2 and R3 unit is independently selected from the group consisting of: a) hydrogen; and b) substituted or unsubstituted C1-C10 hydrocarbyl selected from the group consisting of: i) C1-C10 linear, branched or cyclic alkyl; ii) C1-C10 aryl; iii) C1-C10 heterocyclic; iv) C1-C10 heteroaryl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew John Laufersweiler, Cynthia Monesa Crago Clark, Michael Philip Clark, Jane Far-Jine Djung, Biswanath De, Michael George Natchus
  • Patent number: 6677460
    Abstract: An aromatic carboxylic acid bicyclic sulfur compound of the formula (II): wherein X1 is a C1 to C4 alkyl, a halogen, a C1 to C4 haloalkyl, a C2 to C4 alkoxyalkyl, a C1 to C4 alkoxy or a C1 to C4 haloalkoxy; X2 is a hydrogen, a C1 to C4 alkyl or a C1 to C4 haloalkyl, or X2 forms a bond with X5; X3 is a hydrogen, a C1 to C4 alkyl or a C1 to C4 haloalkyl; X4 is a hydrogen, a halogen, a C1 to C4 alkyl, a C1 to C4 haloalkyl or a C1 to C4 alkoxy; X5 forms a bond with X2 or X5 forms a bond with X7; each of X6 and X8 is independently a hydrogen or a C1 to C4 alkyl or forms a bond with X5; p is 1; and n is 0, 1 or 2; or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kazufumi Nakamura, Masashi Sakamoto, Ichiro Nasuno
  • Patent number: 6673923
    Abstract: The present invention provides pyrazole and pyrazolone derivatives. Preferred compounds of the invention are useful as RNA polymerase inhibitors. Further preferred compounds of the invention are useful as antimicrobial agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Tularik Inc.
    Inventors: Leping Li, Xiaoqi Chen, Serena T. Cutler
  • Patent number: 6673939
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) wherein R represents hydrogen, C1-10alkyl, haloC1-10alkyl or aryl; which are useful intermediates in the preparation of morpholine derivatives of formula (A). Compounds of formula (A) are useful as therapeutic agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd.
    Inventor: Cameron John Cowden
  • Patent number: 6664394
    Abstract: The present invention provides a series of compounds having structural formulas wherein n1 is 1 to 5, n2 is 1 to 4 and m is 1 to 3; X is O or NH; Y is CH2, O, S, NH, NR; R is selected from the group consisting a straight-chain aliphatic group, a branched-chain aliphatic group and an alicyclic group; wherein R′ is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, methyl and ethyl; when Y is O, n1 is not 1; and wherein X and R′ are independently optionally substituted at C2, C3 or C4 in compounds of Fomula IV or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also provided is a method of inactivating antigen-specific T cells in an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
    Inventors: Kathleen Gilbert, E. Kim Fifer
  • Patent number: 6664390
    Abstract: The invention concerns a one-pot reaction for the preparation of (3-chloro-4-fluorophenyl)-[7-(3-morpholin-4-yl-propoxy)-6-nitroquinazolin-4-yl]-amine (I) or of (3-chloro-4-fluorophenyl)-[7-(3-morpholino-4-yl-propoxy)-6-aminoquinazolin-4-yl]-amine (VII)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company LLC
    Inventors: Hubert Barth, Klaus Steiner, Simon Schneider
  • Patent number: 6660867
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a material having spectroscopic properties, light resistance, solubility and thermal decomposition properties suitable for recording for DVD-R. More specifically, the present invention provides squarylium compounds in a state of a metal complex represented by the general formula (I): wherein, R1 and R2 are the same or different, and represent an alkyl group optionally having a substituent, an aralkyl group optionally;,having a substituent, an aryl group optionally having a substituent, or a heterocyclic group optionally having a substituent; Q represents a metal atom with a coordination ability; q represents 2 or 3; and A represents an aryl group optionally having a substituent, a heterocyclic group optionally having a substituent, or Y═CH— wherein Y represents an aryl group optionally having a substituent or a heterocyclic group optionally having a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignees: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kyowa Yuka Co., Ltd., Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Shimizu, Hiroshi Toyoda, Motoharu Kinugasa, Shiho Yamada, Soh Noguchi, Tsutomu Satoh, Tatsuya Tomura
  • Patent number: 6653307
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula I which are useful as antiviral agents, in particular, as agents against viruses of the herpes family.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventor: Mark E. Schnute
  • Patent number: 6653334
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a benzoxazole compound represented by the following formula (1): (wherein R1 represents an alkyl group, a C6-10 aryl-C1-8 alkyl group, etc.; each of R2 and R3, which are identical to or different from each other, represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group; and n represents a number of 1 to 3) or a salt thereof and to a pharmaceutical compound containing the same. These compounds electively activate PPAR&agr;.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Kowa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukiyoshi Yamazaki, Tsutomu Toma, Masahiro Nishikawa, Hidefumi Ozawa, Ayumu Okuda, Kazutoyo Abe, Soichi Oda
  • Patent number: 6653308
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pyrrole substituted 2-indolinone compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts which modulate the activity of protein kinases and therefore are expected to be useful in the prevention and treatment of protein kinase related cellular disorders such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignees: Sugen, Inc., Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Huiping Guan, Congxin Liang, Li Sun, Peng Cho Tang, Chung Chen Wei, Tomas Vojkovsky, Qingwu Jin, Paul M. Herrinton, Michael A. Mauragis
  • Patent number: 6649642
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel succinate derivative compounds of the formula(I)/(Ia): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, X and A are defined herein. The compounds are useful as inhibitors of cysteine proteases. Also disclosed are methods of using and methods of making such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Younes Bekkali, Eugene Richard Hickey, Weimin Liu, David S. Thomson
  • Patent number: 6649568
    Abstract: Compounds represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1 represents a lower alkenyl group or a phenyl group which may be substituted, R2 and R3 independently represent a phenyl group which may be substituted or salts thereof, and a plant growth regulator which comprises said compound or a salt thereof as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Riken
    Inventors: Tadao Asami, Shigeo Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6645919
    Abstract: 3-(4,5-Dihydroisoxazol-5-yl)benzoylcyclohexenones of the formula I in which the variables have the following meanings: R1, R2 are hydrogen, nitro, halogen, cyano, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, alkylthio, haloalkylthio, alkylsulfinyl, haloalkylsulfinyl, alkylsulfonyl or C1-C6-haloalkylsulfonyl; R3 is hydrogen, halogen or alkyl; R4 is hydrogen or alkyl; R5, R6 are hydrogen, halogen, cyano, nitro, alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, dialkylamino, phenyl, benzyl or carbonyl, it being possible for the 7 last-mentioned radicals to be substituted; R11 is unsubstituted or substituted cyclohexenone which is linked in position 2 and has attached to it in position 1 a hydroxyl radical or derivatives thereof; and their agriculturally useful salts, processes for the preparation of the 3-(4,5-dihydroisoxazol-5-yl)benzoylcyclohexenones, compositions comprising them, and the use of these derivatives or of compositions comprising them for controlling undesired plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ernst Baumann, Wolfgang von Deyn, Steffen Kudis, Klaus Langemann, Guido Mayer, Ulf Misslitz, Ulf Neidlein, Helmut Walter, Cyrill Zagar, Matthias Witschel
  • Patent number: 6645960
    Abstract: A compound of general formula (I) and physiologically acceptable salts wherein R represents phthalidyl, (2-oxo-5-methyl-1,3-diox-olen-4-yl)methyl or the group CHR4 OCO(O)pR5 wherein R4 is hydrogen or C1-4 alcyl, p is zero or I, R5 is C1-6 alkly, C5-8 cycloalyl (optionally substituted by C1-3 alkyl or carboxyl), C1-4 alkyl substituted by C1-3 alkoxy or carboxy), C1-4 alkyl substituted by one or more groups selected from amino, (C1-4 alkylamino di(C1-4 alkyl)amino or carboxyl, phenyl (optionally substituted by carboxyl or aminoalkyl, C1-4 alkylaminoalkyl or di(C1-4 alkyl)aminoalcyl, or R5 is a 5-8 membered heterocyclic group containing 1 or 2 heteroatoms selected from oxygen or nitrogen, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Glaxo Wellcome S.A.
    Inventors: Jose Maria Fiandor, Sophie Huss
  • Patent number: 6642232
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain 3-[4-(substituted heterocyclyl)-pyrrol-2-ylmethylidene]-2-indolinone derivatives that inhibit kinases, in particular VEGFR and/or PDGFR kinases. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of treating diseases mediated by kinases utilizing pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and methods of preparing them are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Sugen, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Mattson, Tomas Vojkovsky, Congxin Liang, Peng Cho Tang, Huiping Guan
  • Patent number: 6642229
    Abstract: A class of 3-phenylimidazo(1,2-a)pyrimidine derivatives (of Formula I, or salt or prodrug thereof: I) wherein Y represents a chemical bond, an oxygen atom, or a —NH— linkage; Z represents an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group; R1 represents hydrogen, hydrocarbon, a heterocyclic group, halogen, cyano trifluoromethyl, nitro, —ORa, —SRa, —SORa, —SO2Ra, —SO2NRaRb, —NRaRb, —NRaCORb, —NRaCO2Rb, —CORa, CO2Ra, —CONRaRb or —CRa═NORb; and Ra and Rb independently represent hydrogen, hydrocarbon or a heterocyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd.
    Inventors: Wesley Peter Blackaby, Simon Charles Goodacre, David James Hallett, Andrew Jennings, Richard Thomas Lewis, Kevin William Moore, Leslie Joseph Street
  • Patent number: 6632816
    Abstract: The present invention provides HIV aspartyl protease inhibitors of the formula; and when the compound of formula I comprises an amino group, pharmaceutically acceptable ammonium salts thereof, wherein n is 3 or 4, wherein R1 may be, for example, iso-butyl, wherein X and Y, same or different, may be, for example, NH2 and F, and wherein R2 and R3 are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Pharmacor Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Richard Stranix, Jean-François Lavallée, Nicolas LeBerre, Valérie Perron
  • Patent number: 6630499
    Abstract: A method of controlling parasites in or on an animal comprising orally administering to the animal a parasiticidally effective, substantially non-emetic 1-arylpyrazole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Aventis CropScience, S.A.
    Inventors: Scot Kevin Huber, Yves Ribeill, Susan Marie McComb, Michael James Malaska, David Teh-Wei Chou, Adalberto Perez de Leon
  • Patent number: 6627626
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 5-heterocyclo-pyrazoles of the formula I: wherein ring W, m, n, and R1 through R5 are as defined in the specification, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them and to their medicinal use. The compounds of the invention are useful in the treatment or alleviation of inflammation and other inflammation associated disorders, such as arthritis, colon cancer, and Alzheimer's disease in mammals, preferably humans, dogs, cats and livestock animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Martha L. Minich, Subas M. Sakya
  • Patent number: 6627121
    Abstract: A photochromic naphthopyran of formula (I) wherein R1 through R15, which may be the same or different, are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 alkoxy, halogen, C1-C4 alkylcarbonyloxy, benzoyloxy, C3-C6 cycloalkyl, phenyl, and NR16R17, wherein R16 and R17 are each C1-C4 alkyl or together with the N atom form a 5-12 membered monocyclic or polycyclic ring having, optionally, one or more further heteroatoms; R is hydrogen, alkyl or alkoxy; and >C(CnH2n=1) (CmH2m=1) is a tert-alkylene grup, wherein n and m are integers from 1 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Valeri Krongauz, Emmanuel Lurie, Alexandre Chif, Judith Ratner