Patents by Inventor Fredrik Ek

Fredrik Ek 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).

  • Patent number: 7491715
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are analogs of clozapine and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, amides, or prodrugs thereof; methods of synthesizing the analogs; and methods of using the analogs for treating neuropsychiatric disorders. In some embodiments, the analogs are amino substituted diaryl[a,d]cycloheptenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: ACADIA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Fredrik Ek, Roger Olsson, Jörgen Ohlsson
  • Publication number: 20080090805
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a compound of Formula (I). Also disclosed herein is a method of modulating the activity of a cannabinoid receptor using a compound of Formula (I). Furthermore, disclosed herein is a method of treating a disease or condition that would be alleviated, improved or prevented by administration of a compound that modulates a cannabinoid receptor comprising identifying a subject in need thereof and administering to said subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula (I). Also disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: ACADIA PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
    Inventors: Roger Olsson, Fredrik Ek, Lars Ottesen, Anne Bulow
  • Publication number: 20070213359
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of Formula I as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester, amide, or prodrug thereof, that modulates the activity of a ghrelin receptor. Disclosed herein are also methods of treating diseases or conditions that comprise administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula I.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Ethan Burstein, Anne Knapp, Roger Olsson, Jorgen Eskildsen, Fredrik Ek
  • Publication number: 20070197502
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are analogs of clozapine and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, amides, or prodrugs thereof, methods of synthesizing the analogs; and methods of using the analogs for treating neuropsychiatric disorders. In some embodiments, the analogs are amino substituted diaryl[a,d]cycloheptenes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Fredrik Ek, Roger Olsson, Jorgen Ohlsson
  • Publication number: 20070106074
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for preparing a compound of formula A-N?C(D)(B), from a compound of formula A-N?C(E)(B) and a compound of formula D-M using an iron catalyst, where the process has is represented by Equation (I)
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Roger Olsson, Fredrik Ek, Lars Ottesen
  • Publication number: 20070105819
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a compound of Formula (I). Also disclosed herein is a method of modulating the activity of a cannabinoid receptor using a compound of Formula (I). Furthermore, disclosed herein is a method of treating a disease or condition that would be alleviated, improved or prevented by administration of a compound that modulates a cannabinoid receptor comprising identifying a subject in need thereof and administering to said subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula (I). Also disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Roger Olsson, Fredrik Ek, Lars Ottesen, Anne Bulow
  • Publication number: 20060199798
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are analogs of clozapine and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, amides, or prodrugs thereof; methods of synthesizing the analogs; and methods of using the analogs for treating neuorpsychiatric disorders. In some embodiments, the analogs are amino substituted diaryl[a,d]cycloheptenes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventors: Fredrik Ek, Roger Olsson, Jorgen Ohlsson
  • Publication number: 20060194784
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are analogs of clozapine and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, amides, or prodrugs thereof; methods of synthesizing the analogs; and methods of using the analogs for treating neuorpsychiatric disorders. In some embodiments, the analogs are amino substituted diaryl[a,d]cycloheptenes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Fredrik Ek, Roger Olsson, Jorgen Ohlsson
  • Publication number: 20050192268
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are analogs of clozapine and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, amides, or prodrugs thereof; methods of synthesizing the analogs; and methods of using the analogs for treating neuorpsychiatric disorders. In some embodiments, the analogs are amino substituted diaryl[a,d]cycloheptenes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Fredrik Ek, Roger Olsson, Jorgen Ohlsson
  • Patent number: 6448442
    Abstract: The invention provides low viscosity iodinated aryl compounds, useful as X-ray contrast agents of formula I wherein n is 0 or 1, and where n is 1 each C6R5 moiety may be the same or different; X denotes a bond or a group providing a 1 to 7 atom chain linking two C6R5 moieties or, where n is 0, X denotes a group R; each group R is a hydrogen atom, an iodine atom or a hydrophilic moiety M or M1, two or three non-adjacent R groups in each C6R5 moiety being iodine and at least one R group in each C6R5 moiety being an M or M1 moiety; each M which may be the same or different, is a non-ionic hydrophilic moiety; and each M1 independently represents a —CHOHCON(R1)2 group wherein each R1, which may be the same or different, is a hydrogen atom, an OH group or a C1-6 alkoxy or optionally hydroxylated C1-5 alkyl group; at least one R group in the molecule being an M1 moiety; and isomers thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Amersham Health AS
    Inventors: Torsten Almen, Fredrik Ek
  • Patent number: 6284894
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of an allylic aromatic compound in which an aromatic amine is reacted first with a nitrite and then with an allylic olefin having an eliminatable terminal substituent. Novel allylic derivatives of disubstituted benzene compounds are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Nycomed Imaging AS
    Inventors: Fredrik Ek, Lars Goran Wistrand