Patents Examined by Sun Jae Y Loewe
  • Patent number: 7348440
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dihydropyrrole compounds that are useful for treating cellular proliferative diseases, for treating disorders associated with KSP kinesin activity, and for inhibiting KSP kinesin. The invention also related to compositions which comprise these compounds, and methods of using them to treat cancer in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Arrington, Paul J. Coleman, Christopher D. Cox, Mark E. Fraley, Robert M. Garbaccio, George D. Hartman, William F. Hoffman, Edward S. Tasber
  • Patent number: 7332611
    Abstract: This invention describes the discovery and synthesis of N-thiolated 2-oxazolidinones as a new class of anti bacterial agents. These compounds can be synthesized from 2-oxazolidinones by Ndeprotection and N-sulfenylation. These new substances were found to exhibit potent anti-bacterial activity, including bacteriostatic properties against Staphylococcus spp., including methicillin resistant Staphylcoccus aureus (MRSA), and Bacillus spp., including Bacillus anthracis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Edward Turos, Rajesh Kumar Mishra
  • Patent number: 7329762
    Abstract: The present invention relates to phosphate ester prodrugs of dihydropyrrole compounds that are useful for treating cellular proliferative diseases, for treating disorders associated with KSP kinesin activity, and for inhibiting KSP kinesin. The invention also related to compositions which comprise these compounds, and methods of using them to treat cancer in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Fraley, Robert M. Garbaccio, George D. Hartman, William F. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 7329770
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to the discovery of certain novel herbicidal esters of agriculturally active acids. These esters present agronomical advantages over traditional herbicidal products by presenting multiple herbicidal mechanisms that ensure activity over a broad weed spectrum while limiting the appearance of plant resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Inventor: Joel Marcel Coret
  • Patent number: 7317107
    Abstract: Imidazole compounds having adenosine deaminase inhibitory activity represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 is optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl, R2 is lower alkyl; R3 is hydroxy or protected hydroxy; X is O or S; and -A- is lower alkylene, its prodrug, or their salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Tsuji, Tadashi Terasaka, Nobukiyo Konishi, Takeshi Kato, Katsuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7312330
    Abstract: Amine compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, pain, inflammation, traumatic injury, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Renovis, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael G. Kelly, Satyanarayana Janagani, Guoxian Wu, John Kincaid, David Lonergan, YunFeng Fang, Zhi-Liang Wei
  • Patent number: 7307164
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of structural formula (I) which are inhibitors of the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme (“DP-IV inhibitors”) and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved, such as diabetes and particularly type 2 diabetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Linda L. Brockunier, Joseph L. Duffy, Dooseop Kim, Emma R. Parmee, Ann E. Weber
  • Patent number: 7307173
    Abstract: Electron acceptor compounds, nonlinear optical chromophores, methods for making the compounds and chromophores, and materials and electro-optic devices that include the chromophores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Kwan-Yue Jen, Sei-Hum Jang, Bart Kahr
  • Patent number: 7301028
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dihydropyrazole compounds that are useful for treating cellular proliferative diseases, for treating disorders associated with KSP kinesin activity, and for inhibiting KSP kinesin. The invention also related to compositions which comprise these compounds, and methods of using them to treat cancer in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Arrington, Mark E. Fraley
  • Patent number: 7282605
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing an optically active 2-allylcarboxylic acid derivative, which is useful as a pharmaceutical intermediate, from readily available and inexpensive starting materials by the process which can be practiced on a commercial scale in a simple and easy manner, and certain 2-allylcarboxamide derivatives, which are novel and important intermediates in that process. An N-allylcarboxamide derivative undergoes rearrangement reaction diastereoselectively in the presence of a base to give a 2-allylcarboxamide derivative, the resulting derivative is subjected to a carbamation reaction and solvolysis to give an optically active 2-allylcarboxylic acid ester, and then the ester obtained is stereoselectively hydrolyzed using an enzyme to produce 2-allylcarboxylic acid having a high optical purity. In addition, the present invention provides a 2-allylcarboxamide derivative compound which is a novel intermediate in the process of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignees: Kaneka Corporation, Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi Okuro, Susumu Amano, Noriyuki Kizaki, Teruaki Takesue, Masaru Mitsuda, Noriyuki Ito, Yoshihiko Yasohara
  • Patent number: 7282582
    Abstract: A method of making a metal complex comprises combining a 1-monoacyldipyrromethane with a compound of the formula R1R2MX, wherein M is boron, R1 and R2 are each independently organic substituents; and X is an anion leaving group; to produce a metal complex of the formula DMR1R2 wherein DH is a 1-monoacyldipyrromethane. The methods and complexes are useful for the purification and synthesis of dipyrromethanes and porphyrins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Jonathan S. Lindsey, Kannan Muthukumaran, Marcin Ptaszek, H. Z. Syeda Huma
  • Patent number: 7282592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain resorcinol derivatives and their use as skin lightening agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Stuart E. Bradley, Eric W. Collington, Matthew C. Fyfe, Martin J. Procter, Colin P. Sambrook Smith
  • Patent number: 7259262
    Abstract: There are presented compounds of formula (I) their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, enantiomeric forms thereof, diastereoisomers and racemates, the preparation of the above-mentioned compounds, medicaments containing them and their manufacture, as well as the use of the above-mentioned compounds in the control or prevention of illnesses such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Birgit Bossenmaier, Walter-Gunar Friebe, Ulrike Reiff, Matthias Rueth, Edgar Voss