Patents by Inventor Laszlo Urban

Laszlo Urban 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).

  • USE OF BISPHOSPHONATES FOR PAIN TREATMENT
    Publication number: 20080207565
    Abstract: A method for the treatment of pain, in particular antinociceptive or anti-allodynic treatment of pain, in a patient in need of such treatment, e.g. a patient with osteoporosis or osteopenia, a tumour patient or a patient suffering from an inflammatory disease, which comprises administering an effective amount of a bisphosphonate, e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Alyson Fox, Jonathan Green, Terence O'Reilly, Laszlo Urban, Katharine Walker
  • Use of mGluR5 antagonists for the treatment of pruritic conditions
    Publication number: 20070265279
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of mGluR5 antagonists for treating pruritic conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventors: Fabrizio Gasparini, Laszlo Urban, Josef Meingassner
  • Methods for the treatment of chronic pain and compositions therefor
    Publication number: 20060178323
    Abstract: The invention discloses MMP7 as a suitable target for the development of new therapeutics to treat or ameliorate chronic pain. The invention relates to methods to treat and/or ameliorate chronic pain and pharmaceutical compositions therefor comprising modulators with inhibitory effect on MMP7 enzyme activity and/or MMP7 gene expression. The invention also relates to a method to identify compounds with therapeutic usefulness to treat chronic pain, comprising identifying compounds that can inhibit MMP7 activity and/or gene expression, which can also reverse the pathological effects of chronic pain in vivo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Francis Buxton, Alyson Fox, Pamposh Ganju, Andrew Gray, Chuazheng Song, Laszlo Urban
  • Methods and compositions for treatment of cancer pain
    Publication number: 20060004104
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of treating cancer pain, e.g. bone cancer pain, in a subject in need of such treatment which comprises administering to the subject an effective amount of a COX-2 inhibitor; advantageously a compound of formula (I); wherein R, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as defined; a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable prodrug ester thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Roger Fujimoto, Laszlo Urban, Isabel Gonzalez
  • Use of mglur5 antagonists for the treatment of pruritic conditions
    Publication number: 20040106582
    Abstract: The invention provides the use of mGluR5 receptor antagonists for the treatment of pruritic conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventors: Fabrizio Gasparini, Laszlo Urban, Josef Gottfried Meingassner
  • Use of bisphosphonates for pain treatment
    Publication number: 20040063670
    Abstract: A method for the treatment of pain, in particular antinociceptive or anti-allodynic treatment of pain, in a patient in need of such treatment, e.g. a patient with osteoporosis or osteopenia, a tumour patient or a patient suffering from an inflammatory disease, which comprises administering an effective amount of a bisphosphonate, e.g. zoledronic acid or salts or hydrates thereof, to the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Alyson Fox, Jonathan Green, Terence O'Reilly, Laszlo Urban, Katharine Walker
  • MGluR5 antagonists for the treatment of pain and anxiety
    Publication number: 20010056084
    Abstract: The invention provides the use of selective mGluR5 antagonists for the treatment of pain and anxiety, and the use of mGluR antagonists for the treatment of pain, whereby analgesic effect is achieved by interaction of said antagonists primarily or predominantly at peripheral mGluR receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventors: Hans Allgeier, Nicholas David Cosford, Peter Josef Flor, Fabrizio Gasparini, Conrad Gentsch, Stephen D. Hess, Edwin Carl Johnson, Rainer Kuhn, Mark Tricklebank, Laszlo Urban, Mark Andrew Varney, Gonul Velicelebi, Katharine Walker