Patents by Inventor Raymond Testa

Raymond Testa 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 tigecycline, alone, or in combination with rifampin to treat osteomyelitis and/or septic arthritis
    Publication number: 20050148553
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for treating bone or bone marrow infections, joint infection or infection of the tissues surrounding the joint by administration of the antibiotic tigecycline alone or in combination with a rifamycin antibiotic. In a preferred embodiment the bone or bone marrow infection causes osteomyelitis. In another embodiment the joint infection or infection of the tissues surrounding the joint causes septic arthritis. The invention is also directed to manufacture of a medicament for treatment of bone and/or bone marrow infections, or joint infections and/or infections in tissues surrounding the joint with tigecycline alone or in combination with rifampin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Raymond Testa, Jason Calhoun, Jon Mader, Donna Mader
  • Semi-synthetic aminocyclitol aminoglycoside antibiotics and methods for the preparation thereof
    Patent number: 4011390
    Abstract: Micromonospora inyoensis strain 1550F-1G NRRL 5742 is incapable of producing antibiotics unless an aminocyclitol is added to the fermentation medium. When such a compound is added, mutamicins are produced, said mutamicins being analogs of known aminoglycoside antibiotics differing therefrom with respect to the aminocyclitol subunit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1977
    Assignee: Schering-Plough Corporation
    Inventors: Marvin J. Weinstein, Peter J. L. Daniels, Gerald H. Wagman, Raymond Testa