Patents Issued in June 14, 2011
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Patent number: 7960536Abstract: The invention concerns making and evaluating synthetic regulatory regions for controlling gene expression. The invention features a method for identifying transcription factor binding sites and a method for evaluating the regulatory functions of synthetic regulatory regions.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2005Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Genetronics, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Schwartz, Eric M. Eastman, Xuyang Li, Jeff Nordstrom
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Patent number: 7960537Abstract: A family of minimally cross-hybridizing nucleotide sequences, methods of use, etc. A specific family of 210 24mers is described.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Luminex Molecular Diagnostics, Inc.Inventors: Petr Pancoska, Vit Janota, Albert S. Benight, Richard S. Bullock, Peter V. Riccelli, Daniel Kobler, Daniel Fieldhouse
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Patent number: 7960538Abstract: A probe, a set of probes, and a probe carrier on which the probe or the set of probes is immobilized, are provided for classification of fungus species. The probe or the set of probes is capable of collectively detecting fungus of the same species and distinguishingly detecting those fungus from fungus of other species. The probe is an oligonucleotide probe for detecting a pathogenic fungus DNA and includes at least one of base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 1 to 3 and mutated sequences thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuhiro Tomatsu, Toshifumi Fukui, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Atsushi Takayanagi
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Patent number: 7960539Abstract: A probe, a set of probes, and a probe carrier on which the probe or the set of probes is immobilized, are provided for classification of fungus species. The probe or the set of probes is capable of collectively detecting fungus of the same species and distinguishingly detecting those fungus from fungus of other species. The probe is an oligonucleotide probe for detecting a pathogenic fungus DNA and includes at least one of base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 1 to 2 and mutated sequences thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuhiro Tomatsu, Toshifumi Fukui, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Atsushi Takayanagi
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Patent number: 7960540Abstract: Compositions and methods for modulating tumor proliferation in an individual are provided. The methods employ nucleolin-binding agents, such as aptamers. The aptamers of the present invention can be used to modulate the proliferation of malignant, dysplastic, hyperproliferative, and/or metastatic cells through interference with molecular interactions and functions of nucleolin in the tumor cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Advanced Cancer Therapeutics, LLCInventors: John O. Trent, Paula J. Bates, Donald M. Miller
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Patent number: 7960541Abstract: An antisense molecule capable of binding to a selected target site to induce exon skipping in the dystrophin gene, as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 to 202.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: The University of Western AustraliaInventors: Stephen Donald Wilton, Sue Fletcher, Graham McClorey
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Patent number: 7960542Abstract: A process for the purification of an oligonucleotide synthon is provided. The process comprises subjecting an organic solution comprising an oligonucleotide synthon and lower molecular weight impurities to nanofiltration whereby the ratio of an oligonucleotide synthon to lower molecular weight impurities in the solution is increased after the nanofiltration. Preferably, the oligonucleotide synthon is a nucleoside phosphoramidite or nucleoside H-phosphonate. The nanofiltration membrane is preferably a polyimide membrane having a molecular weight cut off of 400.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Avecia Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Timothy Boam, Andrew Guy Livingston, Dinesh Nair, Paul McCormac, Stephen Hargreaves
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Patent number: 7960543Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a nucleoside or nucleotide having a 5-substituted-2-oxo(1H)pyridin-3-yl group as a base, as well as a method using the same. In one embodiment, the nucleoside or nucleotide of the present invention has a fluorescent dye selected from the group consisting of 5-FAM, 6-FAM, 5-TAMRA, 6-TAMRA, DANSYL, 5-HEX, 6-HEX, 5-TET, 6-TET, 5-ROX and 6-ROX or a quencher dye selected from the group consisting of DABCYL, BHQ1 and BHQ2, which is attached either directly or through a linker to the 5-position of the above base.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2005Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: RIKENInventors: Ichiro Hirao, Shigeyuki Yokoyama
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Patent number: 7960544Abstract: Indoles that have activity as inhibitors of FAAH are described as are indoles and indole derivatives that have activity as inhibitors of DAO.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: Wilmin Bartolini, Brian M. Cali, Barbara Chen, Yueh-Tyng Chien, Mark G. Currie, G. Todd Milne, James Philip Pearson, John Jeffrey Talley, Jane Yang, Craig Zimmerman, Charles Kim, Kevin Sprott, Timothy Barden, Regina Lundigran, Ara Mermerian
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Patent number: 7960545Abstract: The present invention discloses an improved and novel process for the preparation of erlotinib (N-(3-ethynylphenyl)-6,7-bis(2-methoxyethoxy)-4-quinazolinamine) of formula (1), which comprises: (i) demethylation of commercially available 6,7-dimethoxy-4(3H)-quinazolinone of formula (8); acetylation using acetic anhydride; (iii) introduction of a leaving group at C-4 position in quinazolinone; (iv) condensation with 3-ethynylaniline to get novel compound of formula (12); (v) deacetylation to get novel dihydroxy compound of formula (13); and (vi) O-alkylation with 2-iodoethylmethyl ether to get the erlotinib base of formula (1). Erlotinib base is purified by recrystallization from ethyl acetate to get a HPLC purity of >99.5%. Salt formation of this base with hydrogen chloride gave pharmaceutically acceptable erlotinib hydrochloride of formula (1a) with a HPLC purity of >99.8%. Erlotinib hydrochloride is useful for the treatment of proliferative disorders, such as cancers, in humans.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Natco Pharma LimitedInventors: Ramanadham Jyothi Prasad, Bollepalli Nageshwar Rao, Nannapaneni Venkaiah Chowdary
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Patent number: 7960546Abstract: The invention relates to an improved process for preparing aminocrotonylamino-substituted quinazoline derivatives of general formula (I) wherein the groups Ra, Rb, Rc and Rd have the meanings given in the claims, as well as sulphonyl derivatives of formula (XIII) and the use thereof as synthesis components for preparing quinazolines of formula (I). The quinazoline derivatives of formula (I) are inhibitors of signal transduction mediated by tyrosinekinases and by the Epidermal Growth Factor-Receptor (EGF-R) and are therefore particularly suitable for the treatment of tumoral diseases.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbHInventors: Juergen Schroeder, Georg Dziewas, Thomas Fachinger, Burkhard Jaeger, Carsten Reichel, Svenja Renner
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Patent number: 7960547Abstract: The present invention discloses a transition metal complex having carbene ligands. The disclosed transition metal complex has a structure of a center transition metal surrounded by two identical carbene ligands and one double-chilating ligand which is a nitrogen-contain heteroaryl group compound with pyridyl group.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Inventors: Chien-Hong Cheng, Cheng-Han Hsieh, Kun-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 7960548Abstract: Compounds and methods for treating, inhibiting, or delaying the onset of cancer in a subject by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a keratinocyte growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase (KGFR TK) inhibitor to the subject in need of such treatment. Also provided are compounds and methods for the treating, inhibiting, or delaying the onset of metastasis in a subject with cancer by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a KGFR TK inhibitor to the subject in need of such treatment.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignees: The Ohio State University Research Foundation, The Board of Regents of the University of OklahomaInventors: J. Thomas Pento, Pui-Kai Li, Robert W. Brueggemeier, John C. Hackett
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Patent number: 7960549Abstract: The citrate salt of (S)-4-(4-Chloro-phenyl)-1-{3-[7-(1-hydroxy-1-methyl-ethyl)-11H-10-oxa-1-aza-dibenzo[a,d]cyclohepten-5-ylidene]-propyl}-3,3-dimethyl-piperidin-4-ol, which may be used in pharmaceutical applications, is disclosed. The crystalline Citrate Salt, including particular single crystal forms and combinations of the single crystalline forms, are also discussed. Mixtures for forming the crystalline salts are discussed. As well, methods of producing the Citrate Salt, and crystalline forms thereof, and using such Citrate Salt, and crystalline forms thereof, in treating diseases associated with aberrant leukocyte recruitment, activation, or recruitment and activation are also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Inventors: Carole Neves, Aurelia Chevalier, Pascal Billot
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Patent number: 7960550Abstract: Processes for the preparation of Methyl (+)-(S)-(2-chlorophenyl)-(6,7dihydro-4H-thieno[3,2-c]pyridin-5-yl)acetate [Clopidogrel base, (I)] and their various pharmaceutically acceptable salts.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Cadila Healthcare LimitedInventors: Parind Narendra Dholakia, Mayank Ghanshyambhai Dave, Pankaj Ramanbhai Patel
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Patent number: 7960551Abstract: A succinic acid salt of biphenyl-2-ylcarbamic acid 1-[2-(2-chloro-4-{[(R)-2-hydroxy-2-(8-hydroxy-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinolin-5-yl)ethylamino]methyl}-5-methoxyphenylcarbamoyl)ethyl]piperidin-4-yl ester or a solvate thereof, for use in treating pulmonary disorders.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Reshma Chudasama, Andrew Kennedy
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Patent number: 7960552Abstract: The present invention provides novel substituted isoxazole compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, therapeutic uses and processes for preparing the same.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline LLCInventors: Jonathan York Bass, III, Justin Caravella, David Norman Deaton, Robert Blount McFadyen, Frank Navas, III, Paul Kenneth Spearing
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Patent number: 7960553Abstract: A newly synthesized compound designated lepidine ether 2-(4-Methoxybenzyloxy)-4-methylquinoline reacts with methyl triflate in the presence of alcohols to generate a neutral organic salt that transfers the para-methoxybenzyl (PMB) protecting group onto alcohols in high yield and under mild conditions.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Florida State University Research Founation, Inc.Inventor: Gregory B. Dudley
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Patent number: 7960554Abstract: Ambient-temperature molten salts of formula (I): wherein Y+ is a cation selected from the group consisting of an ammonium ion, a sulfonium ion, a pyridinium ion, a(n) (iso)thiazolium ion, and a(n) (iso)oxazolium ion that may be optionally substituted with C1-10 alkyl and/or C1-10 alkyl having ether linkage, provided that the above cation has at least one substituent of —CH2Rf1 or —OCH2Rf1 (wherein Rf1 is C1-10 perfluoroalkyl); Rf2 and Rf3 are independently C1-10 perfluoroalkyl or may together form C1-4 perfluoroalkylene; and X is —SO2— or —CO—.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Teruo Umemoto
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Patent number: 7960555Abstract: Versatile Group VIII metathesis catalysts, as can be used in a range of polymerization reactions and other chemical methodologies.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: University of MassachusettsInventor: Todd S. Emrick
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Patent number: 7960556Abstract: The invention provides novel 1,2,4-thiadiazole derivatives useful for preventing or treating an ?-synucleopathy such as Parkinson's disease, as well as pharmaceutical compositions including them as biologically active ingredients, and methods for manufacturing them.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: NV reMYNDInventors: Gerard Griffioen, Stefaan Wera, Hein Roger Duhamel, Ellen Gommé, Nele Van Damme
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Patent number: 7960557Abstract: Asymmetric light-emitting dendrimers having the formulae: (a) CORE-[DENDRITE1]n[DENDRITE2]m and (b) CORE-[DENDRITE]n are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignees: Isis Innovation Limited, The University Court of the University of St. AndrewsInventors: Paul Leslie Burn, Ifor David William Samuel, Shih-Chun Lo
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Patent number: 7960558Abstract: The compounds of the general Formula (I), wherein R1 is aryl or alkyl; R2 represents alkyl; R3 represents alkyl or aralkyl, are valuable pharmaceutical intermediates, which can be prepared by reacting a compound of the general Formula (IV) (wherein the definitions of R1 and R2 are as above), with at least 2 molar equivalents of the compound of the general Formula (VI) (wherein X represents halogen or tertiary butyloxycarbonyloxy group and R3 is as defined above). The known compounds of the general Formula (II) (wherein R1 and R2 are as defined above) are prepared by reacting the compounds of the general Formula (I) with thionyl chloride. The compounds of the general Formula (I) are new intermediates useful in the synthesis of pharmaceutically active ingredients, particularly in the preparation of ACE-inhibitors, e.g. enalapril, perindopril or ramipril.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Egis Gyogyszergyar Nyilvanosan Mukodo ReszvenytarsasagInventors: Márta Porcs-Makkay, Gyula Simig, Tibor Mezei, Angéla Veressné Pandur, Gyula Lukács
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Patent number: 7960559Abstract: The tetracycline class of antibiotics has played a major role in the treatment of infectious diseases for the past 50 years. However, the increased use of the tetracyclines in human and veterinary medicine has led to resistance among many organisms previously susceptible to tetracycline antibiotics. The recent development of a modular synthesis of tetracycline analogs through a chiral enone intermediate has allowed for the efficient synthesis of novel tetracycline analogs never prepared before. The present invention provides a more efficient route for preparing the enone intermediate.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: Andrew G. Myers, Jason D. Brubaker
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Patent number: 7960560Abstract: The invention relates to A 1-(biphenyl-4-ylmethyl)imidazolidine-2,4-dione derivative having the general Formula I wherein R1 is H, (C1-6)alkyl (optionally substituted with oxo, OR4, COOR5, halogen or CN), (C2-6)alkenyl, (C2-6)alkynyl, (C3-6)cycloalkyl or (C3-6)cycloalkyl(C1-3)alkyl; R2 and R2? are independently H or (C1-3)alkyl; or R2 and R2? form together with the carbon atom to which they are bound a (C3-5)cycloalkyl group; R3 represents H or 1 to 4 F substituents; Y represents or NR8R9; X represents CHR6, CF2, O, S, SO or SO2; R4 and R5 are (C1-6)alkyl; R6 is H, OR7 or CN; R7 is (C1-3)alkyl; R8 is (C5-7)cycloalkyl comprising a heteroatom selected from O, S, SO and SO2; R9 is H or (C1-4)alkyl; o and m represent the ortho or meta position of the substituent Y—CH2; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; as well as to the use of said 1-(biphenyl-4-ylmethyl)imidazolidine-2,4-dione derivatives in the treatment of pain such as for example peri-operative pain, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, canceType: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: N.V. OrganonInventors: Marcelis van der Stelt, Joseph Maria Gerardus Barbara Cals
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Patent number: 7960561Abstract: This invention relates to novel 2-(phenylamino)benzimidazole derivatives useful as modulators of small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels (SK channels). In other aspects the invention relates to the use of these compounds in a method for therapy and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Neurosearch A/SInventors: Ulrik Svane Sørensen, Lene Teuber, Dan Peters, Dorte Strøbæk, Tina Holm Johansen, Karin Sandager Nielsen, Palle Christophersen
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Patent number: 7960562Abstract: It is intended to provide a compound useful as a GnRH receptor antagonist. The inventors further investigated propane-1,3-dione derivatives. As a result, they confirmed that a compound having a benzene ring or a thiophene ring substituted with a group represented by —SO2—R3 in a propane-1,3-dione derivative having 2-(1,3-dihydro-2H-benzimidazol-2-ylidene) has an excellent GnRH receptor antagonistic effect and accomplished the present invention. Because the compound of the present invention has a potent GnRH receptor antagonistic effect, it is useful for the treatment of sex hormone-dependent diseases, particularly GnRH-related diseases. Further, because the compound of the present invention has an excellent metabolic stability in human and few drug interactions, therefore it has preferable characteristics as a pharmaceutical used for the above-mentioned diseases.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Masaaki Hirano, Isao Kinoyama, Shunichiro Matsumoto, Eiji Kawaminami, Kei Ohnuki, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Kazuhiko Osoda, Tatsuhisa Takahashi, Takashi Shin, Takanori Koike, Itsuro Shimada, Hiroyuki Hisamichi, Toshiyuki Kusayama
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Patent number: 7960563Abstract: The present invention relates to novel indazole derivatives having pharmacological activity, processes for their preparation, compositions containing them and uses of these compounds in the treatment of estrogen receptor beta mediated diseases.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Christopher Norbert Johnson, David G Jones, Xi Liang, David Timothy MacPherson, Aaron B Miller, Antoinette Naylor, Steven James Stanway, Andrew Kenneth Takle, Giancarlo Trani
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Patent number: 7960564Abstract: N-[4-(3-Amino-1H-indazol-4-yl)phenyl]-N?-(2-fluoro-5-methylphenyl)urea Crystalline Form 1, ways to make it, formulations comprising it and made with it and methods of treating patients having disease using it are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Abbott LaboratoriesInventors: Thomas B. Borchardt, Michael J. Rozema
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Patent number: 7960565Abstract: This invention relates to organometallic compounds represented by the formula LML? wherein M is a metal or metalloid, L is a substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl group or cyclopentadienyl-like group, a substituted or unsubstituted pentadienyl group or pentadienyl-like group, or a substituted or unsubstituted pyrrolyl group or pyrrolyl-like group, and L? is a substituted or unsubstituted pyrrolyl group or pyrrolyl-like group, a process for producing the organometallic compounds, and a method for producing a film or coating from the organometallic compounds. The organometallic compounds are useful in semiconductor applications as chemical vapor or atomic layer deposition precursors for film depositions.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventor: Scott Houston Meiere
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Patent number: 7960566Abstract: An anthracene derivative is disclosed, and a light-emitting element, a light-emitting device, an electronic device, and a lighting device using the anthracene derivatives are demonstrated. The structure of the anthracene derivative is described in detail in the specification. The use of the anthracene derivative enables the production of a blue emissive light-emitting element having high emission efficiency, excellent purity of emission color, and a long lifetime, which contributes to the production of a high-performance light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kaori Ogita, Sachiko Kawakami, Tsunenori Suzuki, Satoshi Seo
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Patent number: 7960567Abstract: Compounds, compositions and methods that are useful in the treatment of inflammatory and immune-related diseases and conditions are provided herein. In particular, the invention provides compounds which modulate the function and/or expression of proteins involved in atopic diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. The subject compounds are carboxylic acid derivatives.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Amgen Inc.Inventors: Matthew Brown, Michael G. Johnson, An-Rong Li, Jiwen Liu, Sarah E. Lively, Julio C. Medina, Wang Shen, Xuemei Wang, Yingcai Wang
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Patent number: 7960568Abstract: The present invention relates to heterocyclyl-substituted sulfonamides with 5-HT6 receptor affinity, and compositions thereof, and the use of said compounds for the treatment or prophylaxis of various disorders.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve, S.A.Inventor: José-Luis Diaz-Fernández
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Patent number: 7960569Abstract: The present invention provides indole compounds of Formula (I) or (II): or a stereoisomer, tautomer, pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate form thereof, wherein the variables ring A, X1, X2, X3, X4, R6, and R15 are as defined herein. These compounds are selective inhibitors of the human P2Y1 receptor which can be used as medicaments.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyInventors: Patrick Y. S. Lam, Charles G. Clark
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Patent number: 7960570Abstract: This invention relates to neurotrophic compounds having an affinity for FKBP-type immunophilins, their preparation and use as inhibitors of the enzyme activity associated with immunophilin proteins, and particularly inhibitors of peptidyl-prolyl isomerase or rotamase enzyme activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: GliaMed, Inc.Inventors: Gregory S. Hamilton, Joseph Steiner
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Patent number: 7960571Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a silicon-based cross-coupling reagent is disclosed which is a highly stable tetraorganosilicon compound allowing for a cross-coupling reaction under mild reaction conditions without using fluoride ions, transition metal promoter, or strong bases, and the residue of the silicon reagent can be recovered and reused. The silicon-based cross-coupling reagent is a silicon compound in which an o-hydroxymethylphenyl group is connected to a silicon atom for intramolecular activation.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2005Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Kyoto UniversityInventors: Yoshiaki Nakao, Tamejiro Hiyama
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Patent number: 7960572Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of Nebivolol and, more particularly, to an improved method of synthesizing 6-fluoro chroman epoxides of formula (I) key intermediates in preparing nebivolol.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Zach System S.p.A.Inventors: Raffaella Volpicelli, Paolo Maragni, Livius Cotarca, Johnny Foletto
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Patent number: 7960573Abstract: A method for preparing an enantiomeric chromane, by asymmetrically hydrogenating a chromene compound in the presence of an Ir catalyst having a chiral ligand. The method includes the enantioselective preparation of enantiomeric equol. A preferred Ir catalyst has a chiral phosphineoxazoline ligand. Enantiomeric chromanes of high stereoselective purity can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignees: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Girindus America, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth David Reginald Setchell, Victor Dmitrievich Sorokin
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Patent number: 7960574Abstract: Methods of separating oil from oil-containing seeds, involving aerating an aqueous dispersion of germ particles of oil-containing seeds (e.g., corn) to produce bubbles therein, whereby the oil in the aqueous dispersion adheres preferentially to the surfaces of the bubbles and are carried by the bubbles to the upper surface of the aqueous dispersion where a foam of the bubbles is formed; separating the foam from the aqueous dispersion; and recovering the oil from the foam. The aqueous dispersion of germ particles of oil-containing seeds may be produced by mixing corn germ separated from corn kernels with an aqueous acetate buffer followed by heating, grinding, cooling, and optionally agitation; generally cellulase is added after the grinding.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Leland C. Dickey, Michael F. Dallmer
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Patent number: 7960575Abstract: A process for forming an ester from 1,3-propanediol comprising providing 1,3-propanediol with at least 90% biobased carbon, contacting the 1,3-propanediol with an acid, thereby forming the ester, and recovering the ester is provided. The acid can be an organic acid. Additionally, a process for producing an ester, either or both a monoester and a diester, from biologically-produced 1,3-propanediol is provided. This process includes providing 1,3-propanediol produced biologically through fermentation and catalytic conversion of atmospheric carbon, contacting the 1,3-propanediol with an organic acid, wherein said ester is produced; and recovering the ester. In this process the 1,3-propanediol can have has at least 95% biobased carbon, or can have 100% biobased carbon.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products Company, LLCInventors: Gyorgyi Fenyvesi, Raja Hari Prasad R. Poladi
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Patent number: 7960576Abstract: Described are diol-derived organofunctional silanes in which the silanes contain cyclic and bridged alkoxy groups derived from hydrocarbon-based diols and methods for the preparation of the silanes. Also described are rubber compositions containing the diol-derived organofunctional silanes, methods for the preparation of the rubber compositions and articles of manufacture containing the rubber compositions, in particular, automotive tires and components thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2005Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.Inventors: Antonio Chaves, Richard W. Cruse, Eric R. Pohl
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Patent number: 7960577Abstract: Organosilicon compounds having organyloxy groups are prepared by reacting an organosilicon compound (A) having at least one silanol group with a compound (B) containing at least two organyloxy groups in the presence of a component (C) comprising a zinc chelate (C1) and at least one additive (C2) selected from the group consisting of compounds containing basic nitrogen (C21) and alcohols (C22). The products are useful in compositions which crosslink at room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Wacker Chemie AGInventor: Marko Prasse
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Patent number: 7960578Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for the synthesis of a compound of the formula (I) in which: n is an integer higher than or equal to 1; Rb and each Rn are independently a hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 arylalkyl group or a C1-C6 alkyl group substituted or not by an aryl group, —COOH, C1-C6, —COO-(alkyl), —CONH2, —SH, heteroaryl, —NH2, —NHC(NH)(NH2), C1-C6-s-(alkyl), —OH or phenol; Ra is a N-protective group; Rc is a ORd group in which Rd is a C1-C6 alkyl group or a NReRf group in which Re and Rf Re independently an N-protective group.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universite de Montpellier IInventors: Jean Martinez, Frédéric Lamaty, Valérie Declerck
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Patent number: 7960579Abstract: A drug effective for the treatment and prevention of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, anxiety and related ailments thereof, depression, bipolar disorder and epilepsy. The drug antagonizes the action of group II metabotropic glutamate receptors and shows high activity in oral administration A 2-amino-bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane-2,6-dicarboxylic ester derivative represented by formula [I] [wherein R1 and R2 are identical or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-10alkyl group or the like; X represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; Y represents —OCHR3R4 or the like (wherein R3 and R4 are identical or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-10alkyl group or the like; and n represents integer 1 or 2)], a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a hydrate thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akito Yasuhara, Kazunari Sakagami, Hiroshi Ohta, Atsuro Nakazato
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Patent number: 7960580Abstract: A process for making menthyl glutarate is disclosed. The process comprises reacting excess glutaric acid and menthol to produce a mixture comprising monomenthyl glutarate (MMG) and dimenthyl glutarate (DMG), wherein the weight ratio of glutaric acid to menthol is from 1.0 to 1.6 and the resulting mixture comprises from 60 to 70 wt. % of MMG and from 30 to 40 wt. % of DMG.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Renessenz, LLCInventors: Mark B. Erman, Joe W. Snow
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Patent number: 7960581Abstract: Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Grupo Petrotemex, S.A. de C.V.Inventors: Marcel de Vreede, Alan George Wonders, Robert Lin
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Patent number: 7960582Abstract: The present invention relates to a new process for the resolution of mandelic acid derivatives from racemic mandelic acid derivative mixtures by salt formation with chiral base cyclic amides; to the resolved mandelic acid cyclic amide salts (see, for example, formula IIa), as well as certain other metal and amine salts of the mandelic acid derivatives, and to the use of the resolved mandelic acid derivatives as intermediates suitable for large-scale manufacturing of, for example, pharmaceutical compounds; Formula IIa, wherein R is selected from CHF2, H, C1-6 Alkyl, CH2F, CHCl2 and CClF2; and wherein n is 0, 1 or 2; R1 is H or C1-6 Alkyl and X is H, halo or C1-6 Alkyl.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2004Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: AstraZeneca ABInventors: Hans Jorgen Blixt, Bo Lars Gustaf Bosson, Roberto Guiseppe Paolo Gatti, Simone Zaramella, Michael William Senior, Kurt Vogtli, Andrea Zistler
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Patent number: 7960583Abstract: The invention encompasses processes for the synthesis of (S)-(+)-3-(aminomethyl) -5-methylhexanoic acid, (S)-Pregabalin, and intermediates of (S)-Pregabalin.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.Inventors: Vinod Kumar Kansal, Brijnath P. Chaurasia, V. Govardhan Rao, Anand Prakash Tiwari
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Patent number: 7960584Abstract: This present invention relates to novel compounds, isomer thereof or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as vanilloid receptor (Vanilloid Receptor 1; VR1; TRPV1) antagonist; and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating a disease such as pain, migraine, arthralgia, neuralgia, neuropathies, nerve injury, skin disorder, urinary bladder hypersensitiveness, irritable bowel syndrome, fecal urgency, a respiratory disorder, irritation of skin, eye or mucous membrane, stomach-duodenal ulcer, inflammatory diseases, ear disease, and heart disease.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Amorepacific CorporationInventors: Young-Ger Suh, Hee-Doo Kim, Hyeung-Geun Park, Uh Taek Oh, Yong-Sil Lee, Seol Rin Park, Chong Hyon Ryu, Young-Ho Park, Song Seok Shin, Sun-Young Kim, Jin Kwan Kim, Yeon Su Jeong, Ki-Wha Lee, Jin Kyu Choi, Kyung Min Lim, Hyun Ju Koh, Joo Hyun Moh, Sung-II Kim, Joon Ho Bae
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Patent number: 7960585Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing secondary amides with good selectivity by carbonylating a corresponding tertiary amine with carbon monoxide in a reaction mixture in the presence of a metal catalyst and in the presence of a halogen containing promoter. The metal catalyst comprises palladium. A same or even a much better catalytic activity can be obtained with palladium than with the much more expensive rhodium, especially when the palladium is used in a low concentration. Moreover, also a good selectivity can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: TamincoInventors: Mondher Srasra, Pierre Jacobs, Bert Sels, Maria Christina Jacoba Tielen, Kristof Moonen, Peter Roose, Ivan Vanden Eynde