Patents by Inventor Teresa Kuan

Teresa Kuan 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: 7810643
    Abstract: A titration package and method for enabling compliance with a regimen of changing dosage of medication over a period of time includes a backing having an array of receivers with the array including a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows. A plurality of sets of Memantine tablets are provided with each tablet set having a common dose of medication and a different does than a tablet of a different set. Each set of tablets is disposed in receivers of one having an adjacent row and an adjacent column. Indicia is provided and disposed adjacent to the columns and rows for displaying common days and successive weeks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce A. Firestone, John Jacob Vander Zanden, Rodney J. Terwilliger, Janet K. Cheetham, Richard Kurjan, Teresa Kuan, Chin-Ming Chang, J. Abraham M. Le Espiritu
  • Publication number: 20080070908
    Abstract: Compositions including a quinolone component, such as ofloxacin, having fungistatic activity in the compositions, present in an amount effective as an antibiotic when the composition is placed in a mammalian eye, a NSAID component present in an amount to reduce inflammation or pain when the composition is placed in the eye, and a carrier component in an amount effective to act as a carrier for the quinolone component and NSAID component are provided. Methods of using the present compositions, for example, to resolve microbial infections and/or to reduce inflammation and/or pain in a mammalian eye are included within the scope of the present invention. Methods for treating corneal injuries are also included. In addition, methods for treating ocular infections, for example, corneal infections, are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Muller, Elizabeth Bancroft, Janet Cheetham, Harold Jensen, Teresa Kuan, David Power, Kevin Skule
  • Publication number: 20080027120
    Abstract: Compositions comprising ketorolac tromethamine at a therapeutically effective concentration of less than 0.5% are disclosed herein. Methods of treating or preventing ocular pain using said compositions are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Christopher Muller, Janet Cheetham, Teresa Kuan, David Power
  • Publication number: 20060278557
    Abstract: A titration package and method for enabling compliance with a regime of changing dosage of medication over a period of time includes a backing having an array of receivers with the array including a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows. A plurality of sets of Memantine tablets are provided with each tablet in set having a common dose of medication and a different dose than a tablet of a different set. Each set of tablets is disposed in receivers of one having an adjacent row and an adjacent column. Indicia is provided and disposed adjacent to the columns and rows for displaying common days and successive weeks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Bruce Firestone, John Zanden, Rodney Terwilliger, Janet Cheetham, Richard Kurjan, Teresa Kuan, Chin-Ming Chang, J. Espiritu
  • Publication number: 20060251717
    Abstract: This invention relates to an oral dosage form containing between 1 mg and 100 mg of memantine, wherein said dosage form does not contain 10 mg of memantine or 20 mg of memantine, and wherein said dosage form is not prepared by the patient or a person administering the drug to the patient who divides the dosage form containing a larger dose of memantine. Other aspects of this invention relate to pharmaceutical products comprising said dosage forms and methods of administering memantine and treating disease with said dosage form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: Bruce Firestone, J. Vander Zanden, Rodney Terwilliger, Janet Cheetham, Richard Kurjan, Teresa Kuan, Chin-Ming Chang, J. Abraham Espiritu
  • Publication number: 20060008443
    Abstract: Ophthalmic compositions include an ophthalmically acceptable carrier component, for example, an aqueous-based carrier, and a plurality of polyanionic component portions having different molecular weights. In one embodiment, the polyanionic component includes a first polyanionic component portion having a first molecular weight; and a second polyanionic component portion having a different second molecular weight. Each of the first and second polyanionic component portions is present in an amount effective to provide lubrication to an eye when the composition is administered to an eye. Methods of making and using such compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Applicant: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventors: James Chang, Teresa Kuan
  • Publication number: 20050031697
    Abstract: The present invention provides for compositions for administering a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic component. The compositions may include an ophthalmically acceptable carrier component; a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic component; and a retention component which may be effective to reduce wettability, induce viscosity, increase muco-adhesion, increase meniscus height on a cornea of an eye and/or increase physical apposition to a cornea of an eye of a composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Applicant: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Vehige, James Chang, Richard Graham, Robert Lyons, Teresa Kuan, Chin-Ming Chang