Patents by Inventor Stefan Thierfelder

Stefan Thierfelder 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: 20050069543
    Abstract: The invention relates to antibodies to T cells as therapeutics. The object underlying the invention is to provide antibodies for a clinical therapy for prolonging the immunosuppressive antibody effect while avoiding the formation of antiantibodies. This object is achieved by providing antibodies consisting of at least two different groups which are applied at different times and in which at least one antibody of group B differs from one antibody of group A in the constant regions of its heavy chains and wherein group A, which is first applied once or several times, has a T-cell eliminating effect, while the other group B (which is applied at a different time) has a T-cell eliminating and/or T-cell antigen modulating effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventor: Stefan Thierfelder
  • Publication number: 20040116263
    Abstract: The invention relates to a material dispenser. For particularly efficient packaging, the invention proposes a material dispenser (1) having a first roller (2) for a web material, in particular for a web-like packaging material, and having at least one second roller (3, 6) for a binding material, in particular for a string-like, strip-like or ribbon-like binding material, the rollers being connected to one another by at least one connecting element (7, 15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventor: Stefan Thierfelder
  • Patent number: 6551592
    Abstract: According to the invention, a method is provided wherein intact bispecific or trispecific antibodies which at the same time bind to the T cell receptor complex of a T cell, to tumor-associated antigens on a tumor cell, and, via the Fc portion of the bispecific antibody, to Fc receptor-positive cells are used for the induction of an anti-tumour immunity in humans and animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: GSF Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Lindhofer, Hans-Jochem Kolb, Stefan Thierfelder
  • Publication number: 20020051780
    Abstract: According to the invention, a method is provided wherein intact bispecific or trispecific antibodies which at the same time bind to the T cell receptor complex of a T cell, to tumour-associated antigens on a tumour cell, and, via the Fc portion of the bispecific antibody, to Fc receptor-positive cells are used for the induction of an anti-tumour immunity in humans and animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: HORST LINDHOFER, HANS-JOCHEM KOLB, STEFAN THIERFELDER
  • Patent number: 6294167
    Abstract: The invention concerns medicaments containing antibodies which have at least one specificity and detect the MHCII antigen of a patient to be treated. The invention further concerns antibodies with two or more specificities which detect the MHCII antigen of a patient, and diagnostic compositions containing these antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: GSF-Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Lindhofer, Stefan Thierfelder
  • Patent number: 6290955
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical kit and process useful for achieving prolonged immunosuppression and tumor cell elimination, wherein the kit comprises a first antibody having binding specificity for T cells and is capable of eliminating T cells in vivo; and a second antibody, having binding specificity for T cells and is capable of eliminating T cells in vivo, capable of modulating the antigen effect of T cells or both, wherein said first antibody differs from said second antibody in the constant region of its heavy chains and thus belongs to a different animal species, wherein said first antibody and said second antibody are maintained separately in said kit, and wherein in said process said first antibody is first applied once or several times and said second antibody is applied at a different time from said first antibody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: GSF-Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und ges
    Inventor: Stefan Thierfelder
  • Patent number: 6210668
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a procedure for the destruction of contaminating tumor cells in stem cell transplants ex vivo using intact bispecific antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: GSF Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Lindhofer, Helge Menzel, Hans-Jochem Kolb, Stefan Thierfelder
  • Patent number: 6007807
    Abstract: A hybrid fusion cell comprising:a) a malignant B cell which expresses an idiotypic antibody; andb) a hybridoma which expresses an antibody which is capable of being internalized on a professional antigen presenting cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: GSF Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Mocikat, Horst Lindhofer, Stefan Thierfelder
  • Patent number: 5985276
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a procedure for the destruction of contaminating tumor cells in stem cell transplants ex vivo using intact bispecific antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: GSF Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Lindhofer, Helge Menzel, Hans-Jochem Kolb, Stefan Thierfelder
  • Patent number: 5830473
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical kit and process useful for achieving prolonged immunosuppression and tumor cell elimination, wherein the kit comprises a first antibody having binding specificity for T cells and is capable of eliminating T cells in vivo; and a second antibody, having binding specificity for T cells and is capable of eliminating T cells in vivo, capable of modulating the antigen effect of T cells or both, wherein said first antibody differs from said second antibody in the constant region of its heavy chains and thus belongs to a different animal species, wherein said first antibody and said second antibody are maintained separately in said kit, and wherein in said process said first antibody is first applied once or several times and said second antibody is applied at a different time from said first antibody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: GSF - Forschungszentrum Fur Umwelt Und Gesundheit GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Thierfelder