Patents by Inventor David R. Houck

David R. Houck has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20040133941
    Abstract: The invention features a method for identifying a gene associated with a desired phenotype. This method includes the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of cell cultures that include plant, animal, or fungal cells capable of exhibiting a desired phenotype; (b) contacting each of at least a subset of said cells with a stimulus that (i) induces said cells to exhibit the phenotype, or (ii) does not induce said cell cultures to exhibit the phenotype; (c) determining the presence of the phenotype in the cell cultures of step (b); and (d) identifying a gene having increased expression in response to stimuli that induce the phenotype but do not have increased expression in response to stimuli that do not induce the phenotype.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Bowen, Edward A. Deakin, Neil Goldsmith, Christian Haudenschild, David R. Houck, James B. McAlpine, Soren V.S. Nielsen, Christopher Pazoles, Margaret E. Spencer, Angela M. Stafford
  • Publication number: 20030175678
    Abstract: The invention features a method for identifying a gene associated with a desired phenotype. This method includes the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of cell cultures that include plant, animal, or fungal cells capable of exhibiting a desired phenotype; (b) contacting each of at least a subset of said cells with a stimulus that (i) induces said cells to exhibit the phenotype, or (ii) does not induce said cell cultures to exhibit the phenotype; (c) determining the presence of the phenotype in the cell cultures of step (b); and (d) identifying a gene having increased expression in response to stimuli that induce the phenotype but do not have increased expression in response to stimuli that do not induce the phenotype.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Bowen, Edward A. Deakin, Neil Goldsmith, Christian Haudenschild, David R. Houck, James B. McAlpine, Soren V.S. Nielsen, Christopher Pazoles, Margaret E. Spencer, Angela M. Stafford
  • Patent number: 5985913
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound in substantially pure form having the structure: ##STR1## wherein each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, and R.sub.8 may independently be hydrogen, halogen, nitro, CF.sub.3, hydroxy, C.sub.1-5 alkyl, aryl or OR.sub.9, wherein R.sub.9 is C.sub.1-5 alkyl, wherein R.sub.10 is COC.sub.1-5 alkyl; or wherein any two consecutive R groups may be members of a C.sub.5 -C.sub.6 membered ring, and wherein the intracyclic-dashed line represents a covalent bond which may be present or absent, with the proviso that when R.sub.10 is present, the exocyclic-covalent bond is absent, and when R.sub.10 is absent, the exocyclic-covalent bond is present, and with the proviso that when R.sub.10 is absent, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, and R.sub.8 cannot all be hydrogen and when R.sub.10 is absent, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, and R.sub.8 cannot all be hydrogen when either R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, or R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Gareth Williams, David R. Houck, David Edward Smith, Daniel Lee Rathbone, David Charles Billington, Bernard T. Golding, Eric W. Collington, John Kitchin, Nicholas Rich
  • Patent number: 5338845
    Abstract: A novel Aspergillus species, cyclic dimeric dipeptide derivatives which are biosynthetic products thereof and are useful as Substance P antagonists and therefore as analgesic and/or antiinflammatory agents, and a process for preparation of the biosynthetic products are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: Sterling Winthrop Inc.
    Inventors: Colin J. Barrow, James E. Brownell, David R. Houck, Anderson C. Hong, Janet L. Popp, David M. Sedlock
  • Patent number: 5116870
    Abstract: Novel 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors are useful as antihypercholesterolemic agents and are represented by the following general structural formula (II): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Smith, Wasyl Halczenko, George D. Hartman, Gerald E. Stokker, Edward S. Inamine, Otto D. Hensens, David R. Houck, Ta J. Lee
  • Patent number: 4940727
    Abstract: Novel 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors are useful as anti-hypercholesterolemic agents and are represented by the following general structural formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1990
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Edward S. Inamine, Otto D. Hensens, David R. Houck, Ta J. Lee, Robert L. Smith, Wasyl Halczenko, George D. Hartman, Gerald E. Stokker
  • Patent number: 4696925
    Abstract: Products of Aspergillus alliaceus fermentation having cholecystokinin (CCK) antagonist activity, their preparation and use are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1987
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Houck, Edward S. Inamine, Michael A. Goetz
  • Patent number: RE36481
    Abstract: Novel 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors are useful as antihypercholesterolemic agents and are represented by the following general structural formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Edward S. Inamine, Otto D. Hensens, David R. Houck, Ta J. Lee, Robert L. Smith, Wasyl Halczenko, George D. Hartman, Gerald E. Stokker
  • Patent number: RE36520
    Abstract: Novel 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors are useful as antihypercholesterolemic agents and are represented by the following general structural formula (II): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Smith, Wasyl Halczenko, George D. Hartman, Gerald E. Stokker, Edward S. Inamine, Otto D. Hensens, David R. Houck, Ta Jyh Lee