Patents Issued in May 14, 2013
  • Patent number: 8440670
    Abstract: The invention relates to the fields of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and medicine and concerns a novel compound which can be used as an antiulcer agent. The compound is 9 -(quinony-2)-2-p-ethoxyphenylethyl-4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11-octahydropyrido [1,2-a]pyrazindione-1,4 of formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable complex derivatives thereof. The compound can be used as an antiulcer agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Pharmacology Research OOO (IPHAR)
    Inventors: Vladimir Grigorevich Granik, Valeriya Markovna Ljubchanskaya, Valery Aleksandrovich Parshin, Marina Alekseevna Kalinkina
  • Patent number: 8440671
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to novel pharmaceutical methods for the treatment of various conditions. Compositions comprising: at least one phosphodiesterase-5-inhibitor in combination with one or more of the following medications: a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor; a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor; a cholinesterase inhibitor; a dopamine agonist; or a medication suitable to increase the chemical concentrations of the neurotransmitters, selected from amino acids, monoamines, neuropeptides and other agents capable of primary neurotransmission in the synaptic clefts, and their use for treating a neurodegenerative disease in a subject. The invention also relates to: Compositions comprising: at least one phosphodiestersa-5-inhibitor in combination with one or more of the following medications: a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor; or a cholinesterase inhibitor, and their use for treating damaged skin in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Vivus, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerry M. Held
  • Patent number: 8440672
    Abstract: The instant invention provides compounds of Formula I which are 5-lipoxygenase activating protein inhibitors. Compounds of Formula (I) are useful as anti-atherosclerotic, anti-asthmatic, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory and cytoprotective agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Anthony Ogawa, Feroze Ujjainwalla, Ellen K. Vande Bunte, Lin Chu, Debra Ondeyka, Ihor Kopka, Bing Li, Hyun Ok, Minal J. Patel, Jinyou Xu, Rosemary Sisco
  • Patent number: 8440673
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein, R1 is optionally substituted pyrazolyl, and R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using the compounds for treating diseases associated with P2X3 and/or a P2X2/3 receptor antagonists and methods of making the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Roche Palo Alto LLC
    Inventors: Li Chen, Michael Patrick Dillon, Lichun Feng, Ronald Charles Hawley, Minmin Yang
  • Patent number: 8440674
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a new class of compounds capable of modulating Raf kinase and, accordingly, useful for treatment of Raf kinase mediated diseases, including melanomas, tumors and other cancer-related conditions. The compounds have a general Formula I wherein R1 is and A1, A2, A3, A4, X, Z, Z?, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are defined herein. The invention further comprises pharmaceutical compositions, methods for treatment of Raf kinase mediated diseases, and intermediates and processes useful for the preparation of compounds of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Frenel F. De Morin, Jian J. Chen, Elizabeth M. Doherty, Stephen A. Hitchcock, Qi Huang, Joseph L. Kim, Gang Liu, Thomas Nixey, Nick A. Paras, Jeffrey Petkus, Daniel Martin Retz, Adrian Leonard Smith, Jiawang Zhu
  • Patent number: 8440675
    Abstract: To provide a radiation therapy potentiator, which, when employed in combination with cancer radiation therapy, can reduce radiation dose and can mitigate adverse effects. The invention provides a radiation therapy potentiator containing, as an effective ingredient, a uracil derivative represented by formula (1) (wherein R1 represents a halogen atom or a cyano group; and R2 represents a 4- to 8-membered heterocyclic group having 1 to 3 nitrogen atoms and optionally having as a substituent a lower alkyl group, an imino group, a hydroxyl group, a hydroxymethyl group, a methanesulfonyloxy group, or an amino group; an amidinothio group in which a hydrogen atom attached to a nitrogen atom may be substituted by a lower alkyl group; a guanidino group in which a hydrogen atom attached to a nitrogen atom may be substituted by a lower alkyl group or a cyano group; a lower alkylamidino group; or a 1-pyrrolidinylmethyl group) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Fukushima
  • Patent number: 8440676
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions comprising sucralose and 4-amino-5,6-dimethylthieno[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2(1H)-one or salts, solvates, and/or esters thereof and methods of making the compositions by spray drying. The present invention also provides ingestible compositions comprising compositions of the present invention and methods of making such foods. The present invention also includes a process of preparing 2-amino-thiophene derivatives, which are key intermediates for preparing 4-amino-5,6-dimethylthieno[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2(1H)-one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Rhondi Shigemura, Carolyn Podgurski, Boriruck Kitisin, Maria Suparno, Jennifer Ward, Thitiwan Lebien, Kevin Wirtz, James Robert Zeller
  • Patent number: 8440677
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds, compositions and methods to treat certain inflammatory conditions and/or oncology by administering a compound that inhibits PI3K isoforms, particularly the delta isoform. It further provides specific stereoisomers of a compound useful for these methods. In particular, the compound is an optically active atropisomer of 2-((6-amino-9H-purin-9-yl)methyl)-5-methyl-3-o-tolylquinazolin-4(3H)-one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Gilead Calistoga LLC
    Inventors: Jerry B. Evarts, Roger G. Ulrich
  • Patent number: 8440678
    Abstract: The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions, which are useful for treatment of depression and the like, and which comprises a compound having an adenosine A2A receptor antagonistic activity such as (E)-8-(3,4-dimethoxystyryl)-1,3-diethyl-7-methyl-3,7-dihydro-1H-purine-2,6-dione or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and an antidepressant drug (for example, a tricyclic antidepressant, a tetracyclic antidepressant, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, a selective noradrenalin reuptake inhibitor, a dopamine reuptake inhibitor, a serotonin-noradrenalin reuptake inhibitor, monoamine oxidase inhibitor, a 5-HT2 antagonist or the like), and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kase, Minoru Kobayashi, Shizuo Shiozaki, Akihisa Mori, Naoki Seno
  • Patent number: 8440679
    Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted aromatic bicyclic compounds containing pyrimidine and pyridine rings of formula (I) having the structure as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds of the present invention are useful as tyrosine kinase inhibitors, preferably SRC family kinases (SFKs) inhibitors, in particular as multi SFK/JAK. kinases inhibitors and even preferably as dual c-SRC/JAK kinases inhibitors, thereby inhibiting the STAT3 activation and therefore abnormal growth of particular cell types. Notably, the compounds of the present invention are useful for the treatment or inhibition of certain diseases that are the result of deregulation of STAT3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: Debiopharm S.A., Aurigene Discovery Technologies Ltd
    Inventors: Andrès Mc Allister, Maximilien Murone, Saumitra Sengupta, Shankar Jayaram Shetty
  • Patent number: 8440680
    Abstract: A chemical compound having the following structural formula wherein optionally at least one of the phenyl —C6H5 groups bound to the Carbon atoms in position 2 and 6 is independently substituted with a methyl —CH3 or ethyl —C2H5 group, and wherein optionally the ?CH2 group in position 10 is substituted with a sulphinyl ?SO or sulphonyl ?SO2 group. Subject-matter of the invention is also a process of manufacture of 2,6-diphenyl-4,8-diazoadamantan-1-one and the use of this chemical compound and above-mentioned derivatives thereof as components for the formulation of solutions with sterilizing and disinfectant effect. The figure shows the IR spectrum of 2,6-diphenyl-4,8-diazoadamantan-1-one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Pietro Affaitati
    Inventors: Pietro Affaitati, Giancarlo Folchitto
  • Patent number: 8440681
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pyrimidine derivatives of formula (1) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for using such compounds. For example, the pyrimidine derivatives of the invention may be used to treat, ameliorate or prevent a condition which responds to inhibition of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1R) or anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: IRM LLC
    Inventors: Thomas H. Marsilje, Wenshuo Lu, Bei Chen, Xiaohui He, Badry Bursulaya, Christian Cho-Hua Lee
  • Patent number: 8440682
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula (I): wherein the variants R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 are as defined herein, and wherein said compound is an inhibitor of CETP, and thus can be employed for the treatment of a disorder or disease mediated by CETP or responsive to the inhibition of CETP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Muneto Mogi, Ken Yamada, Kayo Yasoshima, Toshio Kawanami, Ichiro Umemura, Yuki Iwaki, Hongbo Qin, Hidetomo Imase
  • Patent number: 8440683
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical remedy used to treat demyelinating diseases of the nervous system. The remedy contains stephaglabrin sulfate that contributes to the restoration of the myelin sheath of nerve fibers. A method for treating demyelinating diseases of the nervous system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Biogen Technologies
    Inventors: Evgeny Venjaminovich Arzamastsev, Klavdia Ignatievna Malinovskaya, Margarita Ivanovna Mironova
  • Patent number: 8440684
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel polycyclic pyrrolidine-2,5-dione derivatives, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as pharmaceuticals as modulators of the N-formyl peptide receptor like-1 (FPRL-1) receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Beard, Vidyasagar Vuligonda, Thong Vu, John E. Donello, Veena Viswanath, Michael E. Garst
  • Patent number: 8440685
    Abstract: A method for treatment of the symptoms of neurologic dysfunctions, including major depression, an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and schizophrenia. The patient is administered an amount of a compound that increases the catalytic activity of MAO-A. The effective compound is preferably reserpine, administered in a dosage of less than about 0.03 mg per day. The reserpine may be administered topically or transdermally at a dosage in the range from about 0.002 mg per day to about 0.02 mg per day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: MedDEV, Inc.
    Inventor: Elaine A. DeLack
  • Patent number: 8440686
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ester prodrugs of nalmefene of formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, chemical processes for preparing these compounds and their use in the treatment of substance abuse disorders such as alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence and impulse control disorders such as pathological gambling and addiction to shopping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
    Inventors: Michel Joseph Maurice André Guillaume, Tim Gaekens
  • Patent number: 8440687
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds that are chemically modified by covalent attachment of a water-soluble oligomer. A compound of the invention, when administered by any of a number of administration routes, exhibits characteristics that are different from those of the compound not attached to the water-soluble oligomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Nektar Therapeutics
    Inventors: Jennifer Riggs-Sauthier, Bo-Liang Deng, Timothy A. Riley
  • Patent number: 8440688
    Abstract: Methods, compounds, and topical formulations for reduction of skin sagging, creasing and/or wrinkling are disclosed. The methods comprise topically applying a composition comprising an ?2 adrenergic receptor agonist. Amelioration of skin sagging, creasing and/or wrinkling begins within minutes after topical application of a disclosed composition. A single application can significantly reduce skin sagging, creasing and/or wrinkling for at least about 8 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Galderma Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Jack DeJovin, Isabelle Jean DeJovin
  • Patent number: 8440689
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein G, L1, L2, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are defined in the specification. This disclosure also relates to materials and methods for preparing compounds of Formula 1, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their use for treating disorders, diseases, and conditions involving the immune system and inflammation, including rheumatoid arthritis, hematological malignancies, epithelial cancers (i.e., carcinomas), and other disorders, diseases, and conditions for which inhibition of SYK is indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Arikawa, Qing Dong, Victoria Feher, Benjamin Jones, Betty Lam, Zhe Nie, Christopher Smith, Masashi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8440690
    Abstract: Quinuclidine carbonate derivatives act as muscarinic receptor antagonists and are effective for the prevention and/or treatment of a broncho-obstructive or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gabriele Amari, Maurizio Delcanale
  • Patent number: 8440691
    Abstract: Compounds that are antagonists of the VR1 receptor, having formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, or salt of a prodrug thereof, wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, R7, R8, R9, X, Y, Z, L, n, and m, are as defined herein, and are useful in disorders prevented or ameliorated by inhibiting the VR1 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: AbbVie Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Gomtsyan, Erol K. Bayburt, Robert G. Schmidt, Jr., Chih-Hung Lee, Brian S. Brown, Tammie K. Jinkerson, John R. Koenig, Jerome F. Daanen, Steven P. Latshaw
  • Patent number: 8440692
    Abstract: 2-aryl-4-quinolones are converted into phosphates by reacting with tetrabenzyl pyrophosphate to form dibenzyl phosphates thereof, which are then subject to hydrogenation to replace dibenzyl groups with H, followed by reacting with Amberlite IR-120 (Na+ form) to form disodium salts. The results of preliminary screening revealed that these phosphates showed significant anti-cancer activity. A novel intermediate, 2-selenophene 4-quinolone and ?/, ?/-dialkylaminoalkyl derivatives of 2-phenyl-4-quinolones are also synthesized. These novel intermediates exhibited significant anticancer activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: China Medical University
    Inventors: Sheng-Chu Kuo, Che-Ming Teng, Kuo-Hsiung Lee, Li-Jiau Huang, Li-Chen Chou, Chih-Shiang Chang, Chung-Ming Sun, Tian-Shung Wu, Shiow-Lin Pan, Tzong-Der Way, Jang-Chang Lee, Jing-Gung Chung, Jai-Sing Yang, Chien-Ting Chen, Ching-Che Huang, Shih-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 8440693
    Abstract: The invention relates to substituted nitrogen containing bicyclic heterocycles of the formula (I) wherein Z is CH2 or N—R4 and X, R1, R2, R4, R6, R7 and n are as defined in the description. Such compounds are suitable for the treatment of a disorder or disease which is mediated by the activity of MDM2 and/or MDM4, or variants thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Joerg Berghausen, Nicole Buschmann, Pascal Furet, François Gessier, Joanna Hergovich Lisztwan, Philipp Holzer, Edgar Jacoby, Joerg Kallen, Keiichi Masuya, Carole Pissot Soldermann, Haixia Ren, Stefan Stutz
  • Patent number: 8440694
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel quinoline compounds of the formula (I) and to the salts thereof. The compounds possess valuable therapeutic properties and are particularly suitable, for treating diseases that respond to modulation of the serotonin 5-HT6 receptor. In formula (I) R is a moiety of the formula (R) wherein * indicates the binding site to the quinolinyl radical and wherein A, B, X?, Y, Q, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, m, n, p, q, Ra, Rb, X and Ar are as defined in claim 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Abbott GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sean Colm Turner, Wilfried Braje, Andreas Haupt, Udo Lange, Karla Drescher, Karsten Wicke, Liliane Unger, Mario Mezler, Matthias Mayrer, Andrea Hager-Wernet
  • Patent number: 8440695
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for modulating certain metabolic processes and for treating a variety of disorders associated with metabolic syndrome, including insulin related disorders, ischemia, oxidative stress, atherosclerosis, hypertension, obesity, abnormal lipid metabolism, and stroke by administering an effective dose of a chloroquine compound. The invention also provides methods and compositions relating to administering an effective dose of a chloroquine compound in combination with at least a second pharmaceutically active ingredient or compound including an antihyperglycemic diabetes treatment, an antihypertensive agent, an antithrombotic agent, and/or an inhibitor of cholesterol synthesis or absorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: St Jude Children's Research Hospital, The Washington University
    Inventors: Michael B. Kastan, Clay F. Semenkovich, Jochen Schneider
  • Patent number: 8440696
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of inhibiting the effects of platelet activating factor (PAF). For instance, a disease or condition mediated by PAF (particularly inflammation) can be treated or platelet aggregation can be inhibited. The invention also provides a method of inhibiting the production and/or release of interleukin 8 (IL-8) by cells. The effects of PAF and the production and/or release of IL-8 are inhibited according to the invention by a compound of the formula: wherein R1 and R2 are defined in the application, or a physiologically-acceptable salt thereof. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: DMI Acquisition Corp.
    Inventors: David Bar-Or, C. Gerald Curtis, Nagaraja K. R. Rao, Greg Thomas
  • Patent number: 8440697
    Abstract: The invention relates to perhexiline, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for use in the treatment of HfnEF, as well as to a method of treating HfnEF, which comprises administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of perhexiline, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to treat said HFnEF. The invention further relates to a treatment program for treating HFnEF, which involves the co-use or co-administration of perhexiline with one or more other compounds that are advantageous in treating HFnEF or the symptoms thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Heart Metabolics Limited
    Inventors: Houman Ashrafian, Michael P. Frenneaux
  • Patent number: 8440698
    Abstract: Substituted 3-(4-((1H-imidazol-1-yl)methyl)phenyl)-5-phenyl-1,2,4-oxadiazole derivatives which are useful as sphingosine-1-phosphate modulators and useful for treating a wide variety of disorders associated with modulation of sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Allergan, Inc.
    Inventors: Janet A. Takeuchi, Ken Chow, Ling Li
  • Patent number: 8440700
    Abstract: The present application relates to novel substituted aryloxazole derivatives, to processes for their preparation, to their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, preferably for the treatment and/or prevention of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Nell, Walter Hübsch, Barbara Albrecht-Küpper, Jorg Keldenich, Alexandros Vakalopoulos, Frank Süssmeier, Katja Zimmermann, Dieter Lang, Daniel Meibom
  • Patent number: 8440701
    Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted 1-(alkyl)-3-aniline-5-aryl triazole derivatives and analogues or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy, according to Formula (I). The invention particularly relates to potent positive allosteric modulators of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors which have the capability of increasing the efficacy of nicotinic receptor agonists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
    Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus John F. Thuring, Theodorus Dinklo, Anne Simone Josephine Lesage, Marcel Frans Leopold De Bruyn, Wei Zhuang
  • Patent number: 8440702
    Abstract: Compounds having the structure of Formula I, including pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds, are CETP inhibitors, and are useful for raising HDL-cholesterol, reducing LDL-cholesterol, and for treating or preventing atherosclerosis. The compounds have 3 cyclic groups connected by single bonds, as for example triphenyl, which are attached directly to the ring of formula I or attached at the position B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Amjad Ali, Zhijian Lu, Peter J. Sinclair, Yi-Heng Chen, Cameron J. Smith, Hong Li
  • Patent number: 8440703
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition which comprises a therapeutically effective amount of a aminopyridine dispersed in a release matrix, including, for example, a composition that can be formulated into a stable, sustained-release oral dosage formulation, such as a tablet which provides, upon administration to a patient, a therapeutically effective plasma level of the aminopyridine for a period of at about 12 hours and the use of the composition to treat various neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis. A method of selecting individuals based on responsiveness to a treatment, including, for example, identifying individuals who responded to treatment with a sustained release fampridine composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Acorda Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Blight, Ron Cohen
  • Patent number: 8440704
    Abstract: This invention relates to a composition containing quercetin, vitamin B3, and vitamin C. Also disclosed is a method of using the composition for enhancing physical or mental performance or treating various diseases or disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Quercegen Pharmaceuticals LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Christian Lines
  • Patent number: 8440705
    Abstract: Compounds and compositions are provided for treatment or amelioration of one or more symptoms of ?-synuclein toxicity, ?-synuclein mediated diseases or diseases in which ?-synuclein fibrils are a symptom or cause of the disease. In one embodiment, the compounds for use in the compositions and methods are heteroaryl acylguanidines, heteroarylhydrazones, dihydropyridones, heteroaryl and aryl styryl ketones, and heteroarylpyrazoles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Susan L. Lindquist, Tiago Outeiro, Richard Labaudinière
  • Patent number: 8440706
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or mixtures thereof that inhibit serine protease activity, particularly the activity of hepatitis C virus NS3-NS4A protease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin M. Cottrell, John Maxwell, Qing Tang, Anne-Laure Grillot, Arnaud Le Tiran, Emanuele Perola
  • Patent number: 8440707
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds that are antagonists of lysophosphatidic receptor(s). Also described are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include the compounds described herein, as well as methods of using such antagonists, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating LPA-dependent or LPA-mediated conditions or diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: John Howard Hutchinson, Thomas Jon Seiders, Bowei Wang, Jeannie M. Arruda, Jeffrey Roger Roppe, Timothy Parr
  • Patent number: 8440708
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein, R1 is optionally substituted triazolyl, and R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using the compounds for treating diseases associated with P2X3 and/or a P2X2/3 receptor antagonists and methods of making the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Roche Palo Alto LLC
    Inventors: Li Chen, Michael Patrick Dillon, Lichun Feng, Ronald Charles Hawley, Minmin Yang
  • Patent number: 8440709
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel crystalline polymorphs, solvate pseudomorphs and amorphous form of 5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-[(trifluoromethyl)sulfinyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile (fipronil). The present invention also provides methods for preparing the novel polymorphs, pseudomorphs and amorphous form, as well as insecticidal or pesticidal compositions comprising same, and methods of use thereof as pesticidal agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Makhteshim Chemical Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Sharona Zamir
  • Patent number: 8440710
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The are useful as HSL inhibitors and may, for example, be used in treatment of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis, and obesity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Ackermann, Stephan Brugger, Aurelia Conte, Daniel Hunziker, Werner Neidhart, Matthias Nettekoven, Tanja Schulz-Gasch, Stanley Wertheimer
  • Patent number: 8440711
    Abstract: The present invention relates to (R,S) 2-aryl-2-fluoropropanoic acids, their single enantiomers (R) and (S), their derivatives amides and acylsulfonamides and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, which are used in the prevention and treatment of tissue damage due to the exacerbated recruitment of polymorphonucleated neutrophils (PMN leukocytes) at inflammation sites. The present invention provides compounds for use in the treatment of psoriasis, ulcerative colitis, melanoma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bullous pemphigo, rheumatoid arthritis, idiopathic fibrosis, glomerulonephritis and in the treatment of damages caused by ischemia and reperfusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Dompe Pha.r.ma S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marcello Allegretti, Andrea Aramini, Maria Candida Cesta
  • Patent number: 8440712
    Abstract: Crystalline sodium atorvastatin, compositions containing the same and methods for the production thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: Arrow International Limited, Zhejiang Neo-Dankong Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kailan Zhou, Hong Liu, Zhirong Chen, Huabin Hong, Yang Sun, Yunde Wang, Jiangchun Pan
  • Patent number: 8440713
    Abstract: A [1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene compound expressed by General Formula (I): General Formula (I) where X and Y are each independently a hydrogen atom; a halogen atom; or a functional group having a straight or branched aliphatic alkyl group optionally having a halogen atom, a functional group having an alicyclic alkyl group optionally having a halogen atom, a functional group having a straight or branched aliphatic alkenyl group optionally having a halogen atom, a functional group having an alicyclic alkenyl group optionally having a halogen atom, a functional group having a carboxyl group, or a functional group having a thiol group, as a partial structure; and X and Y are the same or each independently different, provided that at least one of X and Y has a straight or branched aliphatic alkenyl group, an alicyclic alkenyl group, a carboxyl group or a thiol group, as a partial structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Goto, Masafumi Torii, Tamotsu Horiuchi, Tamotsu Aruga, Hiroshi Ikuno, Toshiya Sagisaka, Satoshi Yamamoto, Takeshi Orito, Masataka Mohri, Takashi Okada, Takuji Kato, Shinji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8440714
    Abstract: The present application discloses an acid labile lipophilic molecular conjugate of cancer chemotherapeutic agents and methods for reducing or substantially eliminating the side effects of chemotherapy associated with the administration of a cancer chemotherapeutic agent to a patient in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Arbor Therapeutics, LLC
    Inventors: James D. McChesney, John T. Henri, Sylesh Kumar Venkataraman, Mahesh Kumar Gundluru
  • Patent number: 8440715
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a method of treating Excessive daytime Sleepiness (EDS) in a subject, comprising the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula (I): Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof wherein Rx is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkyl of 1 to 8 carbon atoms, halogen selected from F, Cl, Br and I, alkoxy containing 1 to 3 carbon atoms, nitro, hydroxy, trifluoromethyl, and thioalkoxy containing 1 to 3 carbon atoms; x is an integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that R may be the same or different when x is 2 or 3; R1 and R2 can be the same or different from each other and are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkyl of 1 to 8 carbon atoms, aryl, arylalkyl, cycloalkyl of 3 to 7 carbon atoms; R1 and R2 can be joined to form a 5 to 7-membered heterocycle substituted with a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, and aryl groups, wherein the cyclic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: SK Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Abdallah Ahnaou, Wilhelmus H. L. M. Drinkenburg, Joseph Palumbo, Jonathan Sporn
  • Patent number: 8440716
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The inventive compounds are useful as deacetylase inhibitors (e.g., histone deacetylase inhibitors) and may be useful in the treatment of proliferative diseases such as cancer. In particular, the inventive compounds are HDAC6 inhibitors. The invention also provide synthetic methods for preparing the inventive compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: President and Fellows of Harvard College, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Weiping Tang, James Elliot Bradner, Stuart L. Schreiber
  • Patent number: 8440717
    Abstract: A method for regulating hair growth is provided which comprises administering, to a subject in need thereof, dodecylcarbomoylmethyltrimethylammonium chloride and/or a compound of salt thereof selected from 2-dimethylamino-N-ethyl-acetamide, 2-dimethylamino-N-(2-{2-[2-(2-dimethylamino-acetylamino)-ethoxy]-ethoxy}-ethyl)-acetamide, 2-dimethylamino-N-[8-(2-dimethylamino-acetylamino)-octyl]-acetamide, 2-dimethylamino-N-[2-(2-{2-[2-(2-dimethylamino-acetylamino)-ethoxy]-ethoxy}-ethoxy)-ethyl]-acetamide, 2-dimethylamino-N-[12-(2-dimethylamino-acetylamino)-dodecyl]-acetamide, and 2-dimethylamino-N-[4-(2-dimethylamino-acetamino)-butyl]acetamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuto Suzuki, Naoko Morisaki, Michiyo Sasajima
  • Patent number: 8440718
    Abstract: This invention provides pharmaceutical compositions containing lipoxin compounds and therapeutic uses for the compounds in treating or preventing a disease or condition associated with columnar epithelial inflammation. The invention also discloses methods for screening for compounds useful in preventing columnar epithelial inflammation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
    Inventors: James L. Madara, Charles N. Serhan, Sean P. Colgan
  • Patent number: 8440719
    Abstract: Carboxylic anhydrides are highly suitable as additive for industrial materials, cosmetics, pharmaceutics and foodstuffs, in particular beverages, for protecting them against attack and/or destruction by microorganisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Kaulen, Erasmus Vogl, Edwin Ritzer, Manfred Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 8440720
    Abstract: The present invention relates, in part, to methods of treatment, prevention, and inhibition of viral disorders. In one aspect, the present invention relates to inhibition of the M2 proton channel of influenza viruses (e.g. influenza A virus) and other similar viroporins (e.g., VP24 of Ebola and Marburg viruses; and NS3 protein of Bluetongue). The present invention further relates, inter alia, to compounds which have been shown to possess antiviral activity, in particular, inhibiting the M2 proton channel of influenza viruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Influmedix, Inc.
    Inventors: Jizhou Wang, Xiaodong Fan, Lidia Cristian