Patents Examined by Yong Chu
  • Patent number: 7732468
    Abstract: Disclosed are 3-aryl-6-aryl-7H-[1,2,4]triazolo[3,4-b][1,3,4]thiadiazoles and related compounds thereof, represented by the Formula I: wherein Ar1, Ar2, and X are defined herein. The present invention relates to the discovery that compounds having Formula I are activators of caspases and inducers of apoptosis. Therefore, the activators of caspases and inducers of apoptosis of this invention may be used to induce cell death in a variety of clinical conditions in which uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Cytovia, Inc.
    Inventors: Sui Xiong Cai, John A. Drewe, Nilantha Sudath Sirisoma, Han-Zhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 7732469
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fungicidally active compound of formula (I): where Het is a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring containing one to three heteroatoms, each independently selected from oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur, the ring being substituted by the groups R6, R7 and R8; R1 is hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 haloalkyl, C1-4 alkoxy, C1-4 haloalkoxy, CH2 C?CR9, CH2 CR10?CHR11, CH?C?CH2 or COR12; R2 and R3 are each, independently, hydrogen, halo, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 alkoxy, C1-4 haloalkyl or C1-4 haloalkoxy; R4 and R5 are each independently selected from halo, cyano and nitro; or one of R4 and R5 is hydrogen and the other is selected from halo, cyano and nitro; R6, R7 and R8 are each, independently, hydrogen, halo, cyano, nitro, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 haloalkyl, C1-4 alkoxy(C1-4)alkyl, C1-4 haloalkoxy(C1-4)alkyl or C1-4 haloalkoxy, provided that at least one of R6, R7 and R8 is not hydrogen; R9, R10 and R11 are each, independently, hydrogen, halo, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 haloalkyl or C1-4 alkoxy(C1-4)alkyl; and R12 is hydrogen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans Tobler, Harald Walter, Josef Ehrenfreund, Camilla Corsi
  • Patent number: 7732375
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel hexylcarboxanilides of the formula (I) in which L, R1, R3 and A are as defined in the disclosure, to a plurality of processes for preparing these compounds and their use for controlling unwanted microorganisms, and to novel intermediates and their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Ralf Dunkel, Hans-Ludwig Elbe, Olaf Gebauer, Jörg Nico Greul, Benoit Hartmann, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Peter Dahmen, Karl-Heinz Kuck
  • Patent number: 7728016
    Abstract: Compound of a compound of formula (I) or a salt, N-oxide, hydrate or solvate thereof, in the preparation of a composition for inhibition of HSP90 activity: wherein ring A is an aromatic or non-aromatic carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring having 5 ring atoms, for example 1,2,3-triazolyl or a 1,2,4-triazolyl or a tetrazolyl ring; and R1 R2 R3 are as defined in the specification are inhibitors of HSP90 and therefore of use in the treatment of, for example, cancers, viral disease, inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis, Type I diabetes, lupus, psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease; cystic fibrosis angiogenesis-related disease such as diabetic retinopathy, haemangiomas, and endometriosis; or for protection of normal cells against chemotherapy-induced toxicity; or diseases where failure to undergo apoptosis is an underlying factor, or protection from hypoxia-ischemic injury due to elevation of Hsp70 in the heart and brain; scrapie/CJD, Huntingdon's and Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignees: Vernalis (Cambridge) Limited, Cancer Research Technology Ltd., Institute of Cancer Research
    Inventors: Kwai Ming Cheung, Brian William Dymock, Edward McDonald, Martin James Drysdale
  • Patent number: 7728151
    Abstract: A dicyclohexyamine salt of compound of formula I, namely perindopril, having an X-ray powder diffraction pattern with characteristic peaks (2?): 8.462, 10.624, 18.693, 9.424, 17.272, 14.177, 19.499, 20.765, 21.409, and 14.540. A process for preparation of the said salt of perindopril and its use in the purification of an impure perindopril and a process for purification of perindropril comprising formation of its salt with dicyclohexylamine. The present invention also relates to preparation of Perindopril tert-butyl amine salt directly from Perindopril dicyclohexylamine salt without isolating the free base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Lupin Limited
    Inventors: Girij Pal Singh, Himanshu Madhav Godbole, Umesh Babanrao Rananaware, Vilas Nathu Dhake, Suhas Ganpat Tambe, Sagar Purushottam Nehate
  • Patent number: 7728139
    Abstract: The present application relates to compounds of formula A(D)x(E)y, (I), compounds of formula (III), compounds of formula (X), as well as processes for the preparation thereof, processes where the compounds (I) are converted to pigments of formula (II) and the use of the compounds (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: MCA Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Bansi Lal Kaul
  • Patent number: 7728149
    Abstract: A process produces a corresponding dicarboxylic acid by subjecting a cycloalkane to an oxidative cleavage reaction with oxygen in the presence of a catalyst in a liquid phase using a continuous reactor, in which a residence time ? (hr) satisfies the following condition: 0.1???50/c, wherein c is the proportion (% by weight) of the cycloalkane to the total weight of a charged liquid. The catalyst includes, for example, cobalt compounds, manganese compounds, and mixtures of these compounds, as well as imide compounds having at least one cyclic imide skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Murata, Hiroyuki Miura
  • Patent number: 7723380
    Abstract: The invention is related to compounds of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, ester, and/or phosphonate thereof, compositions containing such compounds, and therapeutic methods that include the administration of such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Gilead Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Carina E. Cannizzaro, James M. Chen, Manoj C. Desai, Michael L. Mitchell, Sundaramoorthi Swaminathan, Lianhong Xu, Zheng-Yu Yang
  • Patent number: 7718706
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel arylphenyl-substituted cyclic ketoenols of the formula (I) in which X represents halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy, alkylthio, alkylsulphinyl, alkylsulphonyl, halogenoalkyl, halogenoalkoxy, halogenoalkenyloxy, nitro, cyano or in each case optionally substituted phenyl, phenoxy, phenylthio, phenylalkoxy or phenylalkylthio, Y represents in each case optionally substituted cycloalkyl, aryl or hetaryl, Z represents hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy, halogenoalkyl, halogenoalkoxy, halogenoalkenyloxy, nitro or cyano, CKE represents one of the groups in which A, B, D, G and Q1 to Q6 are each as defined in the description, to a plurality of processes for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Folker Lieb, Reiner Fischer, Alan Graff, Udo Schneider, Thomas Bretschneider, Christoph Erdelen, Wolfram Andersch, Mark-Wilhelm Drewes, Markus Dollinger, Ingo Wetcholowsky, Randy Allen Myers
  • Patent number: 7718679
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with novel heteroaryl carboxamides of formula (I) wherein A, R1, R2, X, Y, Z and m are as defined in the description and in the claims, as well as physiologically acceptable salts thereof. These compounds inhibit the coagulation factor Xa and can be used for the treatment or prevention of thrombotic disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Katrin Groebke Zbinden, Wolfgang Haap, Hans Hilpert, Bernd Kuhn, Narendra Panday, Fabienne Ricklin
  • Patent number: 7714017
    Abstract: Peri-substituted, fused bicyclic ring carboxylic acids useful for the treatment or prophylaxis of a prostaglandin-mediated disease or condition are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Decode Genetics, EHF
    Inventors: Jasbir Singh, Mark Gurney, Georgeta Hategan, Peng Yu, David Zembower, Nian Zhou, Alexandre Mikhaylovich Polozov, Wayne Edward Zeller
  • Patent number: 7714008
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds useful, for example, for treating metabolic disorders in a subject. Such compounds have the general formula I: where the definitions of the variables are provided herein. The present invention also provides compositions that include, and methods for using, the compounds in preparing medicaments and for treating metabolic disorders such as, for example, type II diabetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Hilary Beck, Paul Dransfield, Zice Fu, Jonathan B. Houze, XianYun Jiao, Todd J. Kohn, SuJen Lai, Jinqian Liu, Jiwen Liu, Zhihua Ma, Julio C. Medina, Michael J. Schmitt, Rajiv Sharma, Wang Shen, Marc Vimolratana, Yingcai Wang, Zhongyu Wang
  • Patent number: 7713992
    Abstract: The present invention relates to adenosine A3 receptor ligands of the general formula (I), within those preferably antagonists, as well as their salts, solvates and isomers, and the pharmaceutical compositions containing them, to the use of the compounds of the general formula (I), as well as their salts, solvates and isomers, to the preparation of the compounds of the general formula (I) and their salts, solvates and isomers, furthermore to the new intermediates of the general formulae (II) and to the preparation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: sanofi-aventis
    Inventors: Peter Aranyi, Laszlo Balazs, Sandor Batori, Judit Bence, Kinga Boer, Felix Hajdu, Zoltan Kapui, Endre Mikus, Tibor Szabo, Lajos T. Nagy, Geza Timari, Katalin Urban-Szabo, Erzsebet Walcz
  • Patent number: 7709509
    Abstract: The invention relates to oxadiazolones and to their physiologically acceptable salts and physiologically functional derivatives showing peroxisome proliferator activator receptor (PPAR) delta agonist activity comprising compounds of formula I, in which the R1-R7 substituents as well as the U, V, W, X Y and z radicals are as defined herein, and their physiologically acceptable salts and processes for their preparation. The compounds are suitable for the treatment and/or prevention of disorders of fatty acid metabolism and glucose utilization disorders as well as of disorders in which insulin resistance is involved; neurodegenerative diseases and/or demyelinating disorders of the central and peripheral nervous systems and/or neurological diseases involving neuro-inflammatory processes and/or other peripheral neuropathies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Stefanie Keil, Wolfgang Wendler, Maike Glien, Jochen Goerlitzer, Karen Chandross, Daniel G. McGarry, Jean Merrill, Patrick Bernardelli, Baptiste Ronan, Corinne Terrier
  • Patent number: 7705046
    Abstract: Disclosed are two new crystalline forms, ? and ?, of perindopril erbumine. Those forms are suitable as therapeutic active substances for medicaments for the treatment of cardio-vascular diseases, especially high blood pressure and heart failure. The ? crystalline form is obtained in the crystallization of perindopril erbumine at from 30 to 45° C., preferably from 34 to 45° C., from MTBE containing from 1.5 to 2.5% (v/v) water; the crystallization is advantageously carried out with stirring. If the water is then removed, advantageously by azeotropic distillation, preferably at from 35 to 37° C., and stirring is then continued for at least 15 h at from 30 to 45° C., preferably from 35 to 37° C., the ? crystalline form is converted to the ? crystalline form. The ? crystalline form can also be obtained by stirring the ? or ? crystalline form at from 33 to 38° C. in tert.-butyl methyl ether containing from 0.9 to 1.4% (v/v) water with seeding with the ? crystalline form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Les Laboratoires Servier
    Inventors: Christoph Strassler, Vit Lellek, Roger Fassler
  • Patent number: 7705023
    Abstract: There is provided a compound of formula: (I), wherein X, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 have meanings given in the description, and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, which compounds are useful in the treatment of diseases in which inhibition of the activity of microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 is desired and/or required, and particularly in the treatment of inflammation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Biolipox AB
    Inventors: Kristofer Olofsson, Benjamin Pelcman, Ivars Kalvins, Edgars Suna, Vita Ozola, Martins Katkevics
  • Patent number: 7705031
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the R1, Z, Y, RA, and W groups of formula I are as defined herein. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of various disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
    Inventors: Dean M. Wilson, Andreas P. Termin, Jesus E. Gonzalez, III, Nicole Zimmermann, Yulian Zhang, Lev T. D. Fanning
  • Patent number: 7705029
    Abstract: What is claimed is a compound represented by the following structural formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or clathrate thereof. The variables for Structural Formula (I) are as described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Shoujun Chen, Weiwen Ying, Jun Jiang, Mitsunori Ono, Lijun Sun
  • Patent number: 7700770
    Abstract: The invention includes methods for isolating crystalline Form I of 5-azacytidine substantially free of other forms, wherein 5-azacytidine is represented by the formula: The invention also includes pharmaceutical compositions comprising Form I of 5-azacytidine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Celgene Corporation
    Inventors: Dumitru Ionescu, Peter Blumbergs, Gary L Silvey
  • Patent number: 7700636
    Abstract: The invention relates to thiadiazole compounds useful for treating diseases mediated by protein kinase B (PKB). The invention also relates to the therapeutic use of such thiadiazole compounds and compositions thereof in treating disease states associated with abnormal cell growth, cancer, inflammation, and metabolic disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Holger Monenschein, George Erich Wohlhieter, Qingping Zeng