The Hetero Ring Contains Seven Members Including Nitrogen And Carbon Patents (Class 540/484)
  • Patent number: 7842808
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I) as antagonists of calcitonin gene-related peptide receptors (“CGRP-receptor”), pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, methods for identifying them, methods of treatment using them and their use in therapy for treatment of neurogenic vasodilation, neurogenic inflammation, migraine and other headaches, thermal injury, circulatory shock, flushing associated with menopause, airway inflammatory diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and other conditions the treatment of which can be effected by the antagonism of CGRP-receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Prasad V. Chaturvedula, Ling Chen, Rita Civiello, Andrew P. Degnan, Gene M. Dubowchik, Xiaojun Han, Xiang Jun J. Jiang, Guanglin Luo, John E. Macor, Graham S. Poindexter, George O. Tora
  • Patent number: 7838029
    Abstract: A non-effervescent, solid dosage form containing mirtazapine, which is used to form mirtazapine pharmaceutical tablets. The dosage form contains mirtazapine, a hydrophilic component, and at least one lubricant. In some embodiments, the dosage forms contain a salivating agent. Processes for producing mirtazapine orally disintegrating tablets are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Watson Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Salah U. Ahmed, Gandha V. Naringrekar, Tahseen A. Chowdhury, Sudhir R. Gorukanti
  • Patent number: 7834182
    Abstract: Provided are a histamine-H3 receptor antagonist; and a preventive and/or a remedy for metabolic system diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hormone secretion disorder, hyperlipemia, gout, fatty liver, circulatory system diseases, for example, stenocardia, acute/congestive cardiac insufficiency, cardiac infarction, coronary arteriosclerosis, hypertension, nephropathy, sleep disorder and various diseases accompanied by sleep disorder such as idiopathic hypersomnia, repetitive hypersomnia, true hypersomnia, narcolepsy, sleep periodic acromotion disorder, sleep apnea syndrome, circadian rhythm disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, REM sleep disorder, senile insomnia, night worker sleep insanitation, idiopathic insomnia, repetitive insomnia, true insomnia, electrolyte metabolism disorder; and central and peripheral nervous system diseases such as bulimia, emotional disorder, melancholia, anxiety, epilepsy, delirium, dementia, shinzophrenia, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, memory disorder, Alzheimer's diseas
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Banyu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norikazu Ohtake, Ryo Yoshimoto, Shigeru Tokita, Akio Kanatani, Sayaka Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20100256114
    Abstract: The present invention relates to inhibitors of 11-? hydroxyl steroid dehydrogenase type 1, antagonists of the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The compounds of the invention can be useful in the treatment of various diseases associated with expression or activity of 11-? hydroxyl steroid dehydrogenase type 1 and/or diseases associated with aldosterone excess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: INCYTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wenqing Yao, Jincong Zhuo, Meizhong Xu, Brian W. Metcalf, Chunhong He, Ding-Quan Qian, Colin Zhang
  • Patent number: 7777030
    Abstract: The present invention relates to various novel substituted dipeptide derived nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds, their pharmaceutically acceptable salt derivatives, and their methods of use. In one aspect the present invention relates to compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of disease in a mammal comprising administering the compounds of the invention in a pharmaceutically acceptable form to a mammal. In particular, the invention relates to medicaments comprising various novel substituted dipeptide derived nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salt derivatives and methods for administration to a mammal for the treatment and prevention of malarial diseases. The compounds of the invention may optionally be administered with at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, another biologically active agent or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherge Scientifique (CNRS), ImmuPharma France SA
    Inventors: Gilles Guichard, Gersande Lena, Eliette Lallemand, Laurent Renia
  • Patent number: 7763602
    Abstract: Novel pyrrole derivatives of formula (I) and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts having superior antimycobacterial activity against clinically sensitive as well as resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as well as having lesser toxicity compared to known compounds. The use of the novel compounds of formula (I) for treatment of latent tuberculosis including Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB). The methods for preparation of the novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing the novel compounds and method of treating MDR TB by administration of compounds of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Lupin Limited
    Inventors: Sudershan Kumar Arora, Neelima Sinha, Sanjay Jain, Ram Shankar Upadhayaya, Gourhari Jana, Shankar Ajay, Rakesh Kumar Sinha
  • Patent number: 7759336
    Abstract: The compound represented by formulae (I) and (II), the salt thereof, the N-oxide thereof or the solvate thereof, or the prodrug thereof and the pharmaceutical composition comprising thereof have a CXCR4-regulating effect, and they are effective in treatment and prevention of various inflammatory disease, various allergic disease, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome infection with human immunodeficiency virus, or agents for regeneration therapy. (wherein ring A represents a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group which may have a substituent(s); ring B represents a homocyclic group which may have a substituent(s) or a heterocyclic group which may have a substituent(s); and Y represents a hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent(s), a heterocyclic group which may have a substituent(s), an amino group which may be protected, a hydroxyl group which may be protected or a mercapto group which may be protected; T represents ring A or an amino group which may be protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromu Habashita, Masaya Kokubo, Shiro Shibayama, Hideaki Tada, Tatsuya Tanihiro
  • Patent number: 7723323
    Abstract: The use of fused 1,2,4-triazoles for modulating the activity of 11?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11?HSD1) and the use of these compounds as pharmaceutical compositions has been described. Also a novel class of fused 1,2,4-triazoles, their use in therapy, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, as well as their use in the manufacture of medicaments has been described. The present compounds are modulators and more specifically inhibitors of the activity of 11?HSD1 and may be useful in the treatment, prevention and/or prophylaxis of a range of medical disorders where a decreased intracellular concentration of active glucocorticoid is desirable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: High Point Pharmaceuticals, LLC
    Inventors: Henrik Sune Andersen, Gita Camilla Tejlgaard Kampen, Inge Thoger Christensen, John Patrick Mogensen, Annette Rosendal Larsen
  • Publication number: 20100113722
    Abstract: Sulfur chelated ruthenium compounds represented by the following formula: wherein M indicates the ruthenium metal bound to a benzylidene carbon; R represents C1-C7 alkyl group or optionally substituted aryl; X1 and X2 each independently represent halogen; Y1 and Y2 each independently denote unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted phenyl; and Z independently represents hydrogen, electron withdrawing or electron donating substituent, with m being an integer from 1 to 4, and processes and compositions related thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
    Inventors: N. Gabriel LEMCOFF, Amos BEN-ASULY
  • Patent number: 7696350
    Abstract: This invention relates to chromen-2-one derivatives useful as monoamine neurotransmitter re-uptake inhibitors. 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Neurosearch A/S
    Inventors: Dan Peters, Gunnar M. Olsen, Jørgen Scheel-Krüger, Elsebet Østergaard Nielsen
  • Patent number: 7691837
    Abstract: Novel pyrrole derivatives of formula (I) and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts having superior antimycobacterial activity against clinically sensitive as well as resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as well as having lesser toxicity compared to known compounds. The use of the novel compounds of formula (I) for treatment of latent tuberculosis including Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB). The methods for preparation of the novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing the novel compounds and method of treating MDR TB by administration of compounds of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Lupin Limited
    Inventors: Sudershan Kumar Arora, Neelima Sinha, Sanjay Jain, Ram Shankar Upadhayaya, Gourhari Jana, Shankar Ajay, Rakesh Kumar Sinha
  • Patent number: 7674787
    Abstract: The invention relates to conformationally constrained mimetics of Smac which function as inhibitors of Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins. The invention also relates to the use of these mimetics for inducing apoptotic cell death and for sensitizing cells to inducers of apoptosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Shaomeng Wang, Haiying Sun, Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska, Chao-Yie Yang, Liang Xu, Naoyuki G. Saito, Jianyong Chen
  • Patent number: 7632944
    Abstract: A process of preparing a quinolone carboxylic acid or its derivatives having Formula I, Ia, or IV, as shown herein, comprises using a starting quinolone that already has one or more desired substituents at one or more particular positions on the quinolone ring and preserving the orientation of such substituents throughout the synthesis. The present process comprises fewer steps than prior-art processes. The present process also can include a simple separation of a desired enantiomer of the quinolone carboxylic acid or its derivatives from the enantiomeric mixture. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising fluoroquinolones prepared by the present process can be used effectively against a variety of microbial pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventor: Arthur E. Harms
  • Patent number: 7622462
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, wherein Ar, R1 and R2 are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, methods of preparing the compounds, and method of using the compounds for treatment of monoamine reuptake inhibitor-mediated diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Roche Palo Alto LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Craig Schoenfeld, Robert James Weikert
  • Patent number: 7605289
    Abstract: Benzamide derivatives of formula I and II, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, stereoisomers, and prodrugs thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, are described and have therapeutic utility, particularly in the treatment of diabetes, obesity, and related conditions and disorders: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, and R12 are defined as provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Amgen, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay P. Powers, Michael Degraffenreid, Xiao He, Lisa Julian, Dustin L. McMinn, Daqing Sun, Yosup Rew, Xuelei Yan
  • Patent number: 7605288
    Abstract: Novel compounds useful for inhibiting the 90 kDa heat shock proteins containing a quinone-like moiety and a di-hydroxy phenol like moiety, similar to geldanamycin and radicicol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: University of Kansas
    Inventors: Brian Blagg, Gang Shen, Randell C. Clevenger
  • Patent number: 7557118
    Abstract: A method for the preparation of a compound of general Formula: or pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives and salts, racemates, isomers and/or tautomers thereof comprising cyclizing an azomethine ylide of general Formula: wherein, A is a cyclic or non-cyclic group; Z is a carbon or a heteroatom; n is selected from 0, 1, 2 or 3; W, X and Y may be the same or different and each are selected from hydrogen; optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, amino, alkoxy, alkenoxy, alkynoxy, aryl, alkylthio, heterocyclyl; carboxy, carboxy ester, carboxamido, acyl, acyloxy, mercapto, halogen, nitro, sulfate, phosphate, cyano and optionally protected hydroxy; or W and X, together with the nitrogen and carbon atoms to which they are attached, form a saturated or unsaturated nitrogen containing heterocyclic group which may be optionally substituted or optionally fused to a saturated or unsaturated carbocyclic group, aryl group or heterocyclic group is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: The Australian National University
    Inventors: Martin Gerhardt Banwell, Bernard Luke Flynn
  • Patent number: 7547693
    Abstract: Provided are a histamine-H3 receptor antagonist; and a preventive and/or a remedy for metabolic system diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hormone secretion disorder, hyperlipemia, gout, fatty liver, circulatory system diseases, for example, stenocardia, acute/congestive cardiac insufficiency, cardiac infarction, coronary arteriosclerosis, hypertension, nephropathy, sleep disorder and various diseases accompanied by sleep disorder such as idiopathic hypersomnnia, repetitive hypersomnnia, true hypersomnnia, narcolepsy, sleep periodic acromotion disorder, sleep apnea syndrome, circadian rhythm disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, REM sleep disorder, senile insomnia, night worker sleep insanitation, idiopathic insomnia, repetitive insomnia, true insomnia, electrolyte metabolism disorder, and central and peripheral nervous system diseases such as bulimia, emotional disorder, melancholia, anxiety, epilepsy, delirium, dementia, shinzophrenia, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, memory disorder, Alzheimer's dis
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Banyu Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Norikazu Ohtake, Ryo Yoshimoto, Shigeru Tokita, Akio Kanatani, Sayaka Mizutani
  • Patent number: 7538101
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1, R2 and G are as defined in the description and claims and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases which are associated with the modulation of H3 receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Nettekoven, Jean-Marc Plancher, Hans Richter, Olivier Roche, Rosa Maria Rodriguez Sarmiento, Sven Taylor
  • Patent number: 7531543
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to phenylpiperazine cycloalkanol derivatives, compositions containing these derivatives, and methods of their use for the prevention and treatment of conditions ameliorated by monoamine reuptake including, inter alia, vasomotor symptoms (VMS), sexual dysfunction, gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromylagia syndrome, nervous system disorders, and combinations thereof, particularly those conditions selected from the group consisting of major depressive disorder, vasomotor symptoms, stress and urge urinary incontinence, fibromyalgia, pain, diabetic neuropathy, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Paige Erin Mahaney, Eugene John Trybulski, Lori Krim Gavrin, An Thien Vu
  • Publication number: 20090118257
    Abstract: Methods of treating or suppressing mitochondrial diseases, such as Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON), mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactacidosis, and stroke (MELAS), Kearns-Sayre Syndrome (KSS), are disclosed, as well as compounds useful in the methods of the invention, such as 4-(p-quinolyl)-2-hydroxybutanamide derivatives. Methods and compounds useful in treating other disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and pervasive developmental disorders such as autism are also disclosed. Energy biomarkers useful in assessing the metabolic state of a subject and the efficacy of treatment are also disclosed. Methods of modulating, normalizing, or enhancing energy biomarkers, as well as compounds useful for such methods, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Orion D. Jankowski, Kieron E. Wesson, Paul Mollard, William D. Shrader
  • Patent number: 7524874
    Abstract: Compounds having the general structure and compositions containing them, for the treatment of acute, inflammatory and neuropathic pain, dental pain, general headache, migraine, cluster headache, mixed-vascular and non-vascular syndromes, tension headache, general inflammation, arthritis, rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disorders, inflammatory eye disorders, inflammatory or unstable bladder disorders, psoriasis, skin complaints with inflammatory components, chronic inflammatory conditions, inflammatory pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, neuropathic pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, diabetic neuropathy pain, causalgia, sympathetically maintained pain, deafferentation syndromes, asthma, epithelial tissue damage or dysfunction, herpes simplex, disturbances of visceral motility at respiratory, genitourinary, gastrointestinal or vascular regions, wounds, burns, allergic skin reactions, pruritis, vitiligo, general gastrointestinal disorders, gastric ulceration, d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth M. Doherty, Jiawang Zhu, Markian Stec, Mark H. Norman, Vassil I. Ognyanov, Christopher H. Fotsch, Ning Chen, Partha P. Chakrabarti, Liping H. Pettus, Hui-Ling Wang, Xianghong Wang, Premilla Arasasingham
  • Patent number: 7452879
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of treating or preventing autoimmune diseases with 2,4-pyrimidinediamine compounds, as well as methods of treating, preventing or ameliorating symptoms associated with such diseases. Specific examples of autoimmune diseases that can be treated or prevented with the compounds include rheumatoid arthritis and/or its associated symptoms, systemic lups erythematosis and/or its associated symptoms and multiple sclerosis and/or its associated symptoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajinder Singh, Ankush Argade, Hui Li, Somasekhar Bhamidipati, David Carroll, Catherine Sylvain, Jeffrey Clough, Holger Keim
  • Patent number: 7423048
    Abstract: The present invention concerns compounds of formula (I) a stereochemically isomeric form thereof, an N-oxide form thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof, wherein -a1?a2-a3?a4- is a bivalent radical wherein one or two of a1 to a4 are nitrogen and the remaining a1 to a4 are —CH?; -Z1-Z2- is a bivalent radical; -A- is a bivalent radical of formula —N(R6)-Alk2- or a 5, 6 or 7-membered saturated heterocycle containing one or two nitrogen atoms; R1, R2 and R3 are each independently selected from hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, hydroxy, halo and the like; Alk1 and Alk2 are optionally substituted C1-6alkanediyl; R5 is a radical of formula wherein n is 1 or 2; p1 is 0, and p2 is 1 or 2; or p1 is 1 or 2, and p2 is 0; X is oxygen, sulfur or ?NR9; Y2 is oxygen or sulfur; R7 is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, C3-6cycloalkyl, phenyl or phenylmethyl; R8 is C1-6alkyl, C3-6cycloalkyl phenyl or phenylmethyl; R9 is cyano, C1-6alkyl, C3-6cycloalkyl, C1-6alkyloxycarbonyl or aminocarbonyl; R10 is hydrogen or C1-6al
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V.
    Inventors: Kristol Van Emelen, Marcel Frans Leopold De Bruyn, Manuel Jesús Alcázar-Vaca, José Ignacio Andrés-Gil, Francisco Javier Fernández-Gadea, Maria Encamacion Matesanz-Ballesteros, José Manuel Bartolomé-Nebreda
  • Patent number: 7402670
    Abstract: Chiral synthesis from an achiral starting material by chiral diamine-mediated, such as sparteine-mediated, intermolecular asymmetric alkylation with a strained cyclic ether in the presence of a Lewis acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V.
    Inventors: Xiaohu Deng, Neelakandha Mani
  • Patent number: 7368445
    Abstract: The disclosed invention is directed to compounds of the formula: Formula (I) and methods of using these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Hong-Yu Li, William Thomas McMillen, Yan Wang
  • Patent number: 7368443
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to 2,6-disubstituted piperidine and piperazine analogs having the following general formula: which are used to treat diseases of the central nervous system, drug abuse, and withdrawal therefrom as well as treating eating disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Peter A. Crooks, Linda Dwoskin, Marlon D. Jones, Dennis Keith Miller, Seth Davin Norholm, Guangrong Zheng, Sairam Krishamurthy
  • Patent number: 7358238
    Abstract: The use of fused 1,2,4-triazoles for modulating the activity of 11?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11?HSD1) and the use of these compounds as pharmaceutical compositions has been described. Also a novel class of fused 1,2,4-triazoles, their use in therapy, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, as well as their use in the manufacture of medicaments has been described. The present compounds are modulators and more specifically inhibitors of the activity of 11?HSD1 and may be useful in the treatment, prevention and/or prophylaxis of a range of medical disorders where a decreased intracellular concentration of active glucocorticoid is desirable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Sune Andersen, Gita Camilla Tejlgaard Kampen, Inge Thoger Christensen, John Patrick Mogensen, Annette Rosendal Larsen
  • Patent number: 7335672
    Abstract: Substituted pyridines and pyrimidines and compositions containing them, for the treatment of acute, inflammatory and neuropathic pain, dental pain, general headache, migraine, cluster headache, mixed-vascular and non-vascular syndromes, tension headache, general inflammation, arthritis, rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disorders, inflammatory eye disorders, inflammatory or unstable bladder disorders, psoriasis, skin complaints with inflammatory components, chronic inflammatory conditions, inflammatory pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, neuropathic pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, diabetic neuropathy pain, causalgia, sympathetically maintained pain, deafferentation syndromes, asthma, epithelial tissue damage or dysfunction, herpes simplex, disturbances of visceral motility at respiratory, genitourinary, gastrointestinal or vascular regions, wounds, burns, allergic skin reactions, pruritus, vitiligo, general gastrointestinal disorders, gastric ulceration, duoden
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Mark H. Norman, Liping H. Pettus, Xianghong Wang, Jiawang Zhu
  • Patent number: 7332511
    Abstract: Compounds having the general structure and compositions containing them, for the treatment of acute, inflammatory and neuropathic pain, dental pain, general headache, migraine, cluster headache, mixed-vascular and non-vascular syndromes, tension headache, general inflammation, arthritis, rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disorders, inflammatory eye disorders, inflammatory or unstable bladder disorders, psoriasis, skin complaints with inflammatory components, chronic inflammatory conditions, inflammatory pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, neuropathic pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, diabetic neuropathy pain, causalgia, sympathetically maintained pain, deafferentation syndromes, asthma, epithelial tissue damage or dysfunction, herpes simplex, disturbances of visceral motility at respiratory, genitourinary, gastrointestinal or vascular regions, wounds, burns, allergic skin reactions, pruritus, vitiligo, general gastrointestinal disorders, gastric ulceration, d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth M. Doherty, Jiawang Zhu, Markian Stec, Mark H. Norman, Hui-Ling Wang, Christopher H. Fotsch, Ning Chen, Partha P. Chakrabarti, Celia Dominguez, James Richard Falsey, Christopher Hulme, Jodie Katon, Thomas Nixey, Vassil I. Ognyanov, Liping H. Pettus, Robert Michael Rzasa
  • Patent number: 7323563
    Abstract: A method for the treatment of bacterial infections in humans and non-human mammals, which comprises inhibiting bacterial growth by administering to a subject an antibacterially effective dose of a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically or veterinarily acceptable salt thereof:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: British Biotech Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael George Hunter, Paul Raymond Beckett, John Martin Clements, Mark Whittaker, Zoe Marie Spavold
  • Patent number: 7299930
    Abstract: The present invention provides a ammoniated collector (amine, azepine, etc.) alone or in combination with other thiol-type collecting reactants, as well as sodium, iron, magnesium, and/or manganese sulfates, sulfurs, oxides, and hydroxides, acrylic acid polymers and copolymers or other spreading agents, in the process of grinding and floating mineral ores, in order to allow to set new floating operational conditions in existing mineral ore processing plants; to obtain substantial improvements in metallurgic productivity by improving the kinetics of the floating process, which allows to increase recovery of molybdenum, decrease recovery of iron, increase copper grade in copper concentrate, at least keep or improve copper recovery, among others, through the addition of a collecting reactant implying savings of up to 100% of consumption of modifying agents, such as lime, currently used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Procesos Mineros e Industries Conosur S.A.
    Inventors: Hector Correa-Castillo, German Rodriguez-Buendia
  • Patent number: 7276610
    Abstract: The invention provides novel GlyT2 inhibiting compounds useful in modulating, treating, or preventing: anxiolytic disorders; a condition requiring treatment of injured mammalian nerve tissue; a condition amenable to treatment through administration of a neurotrophic factor; a neurological disorder; or obesity; an obesity-related disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Janssen Pharaceutica, NV
    Inventors: Charles Q. Huang, Timothy W. Lovenberg, Alejandro Santillán, Jr., Liu Y. Tang, Ronald L. Wolin
  • Patent number: 7247748
    Abstract: Disclosed is a compound having the formula (I) pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, wherein the structural variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: SmithKline Corporation
    Inventors: Scott K. Thompson, James S. Frazee, Lara S. Kallander, Chun Ma, Joseph P. Marino, Michael J. Neeb, Ning Wang
  • Patent number: 7220856
    Abstract: The present invention relates to CCR5 receptor antagonists of formulae (1a) or (1b): enantiomers, diastereomers, salts and solvates thereof wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R7 are as defined herein. The invention further includes a method of CCR5-mediated disorders employing such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Schering Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Laura Dunning, Stefan Jaroch, Monica J. Kochanny, Wheeseong Lee, Xiongdong Lian, Meina Liang, Shou-Fu Lu, James Onuffer, Gary Phillips, Guo-Ping Wei, Bin Ye
  • Patent number: 7208630
    Abstract: Novel compounds useful for inhibiting the 90 kDa heat shock proteins containing a quinone-like moiety and a di-hydroxy phenol like moiety, similar to geldanamycin and radicicol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: University of Kansas
    Inventors: Brian Blagg, Gang Shen, Randell C. Clevenger
  • Patent number: 7196084
    Abstract: The invention concerns novel cdc25 phosphatase inhibitors, and in particular cdc25-C, which correspond to the general formula (I) wherein: A represents a carbocyclic aryl radical optionally substituted 1 to 3 times by one or more radicals independently selected among a halogen atom and an alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, alkylthio or NR1R2 radical wherein R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical or R1 and R2 form together with the nitrogen atom a heterocycle of 4 to 7 members comprising 1 to 2 heteroatoms, the members required to complete the heterocycle being selected independently among the CR3R4—, —O—, —S and NR5-radicals, R3 and R4 representing independently each time they are involved a hydrogen atom or an alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, amino, alkylamino or dialkylamino radical, and R5 representing independently each time it is involved a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical, or A represents a phenyl radical substituted by a phenyl radical optionally substituted 1 to 3 times by one or more radicals selected
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Societe de Conseils de Recherches et d'Applications Scientifiques (S.C.R.A.S.)
    Inventors: Grégoire Prevost, Marie-Christine Brezak Pannetier, Marie-Odile Galcera Contour, Christophe Thurieau, Françoise Goubin Gramatica, Bernard Ducommun, Christophe Lanco
  • Patent number: 7173025
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), wherein G1 is CH or N; G2 is CH or N; R1 is a variety of optional substituents; L1 is (1-4C)alkylene; T1 is CH or N; R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen or (1-4C)alkyl or are joined to form a ring; X1 and X2 represent various linking groups; Ar is phenylene or certain heteroaryl rings and Q represents a variety of aromatic or heterocyclic rings systems, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are described as useful antithrombotic and anticoagulant agents, and are selective Factor Xa inhibitors. Processes for their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing them are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Zeneca Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Stocker, John Preston, Michael James Smithers
  • Patent number: 7161000
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a phenol condensate by oxidative condensation of a phenol compound not having a substituted group on at least one ortho-position, in the presence of a specific complex (II) and oxygen, wherein a condensate coupled at para-position of the phenol can be produced in an excellent yield, L-M (X)n??(II) wherein L represents a ligand having 2 to 4 nitrogen atoms as donor atoms, M represents copper ion, nickel ion, cobalt ion, iron ion, manganese ion, chromium ion or vanadyl ion, X represents a counter ion, n is a number of Xs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hideyuki Higashimura, Eiichi Kotake, Masaaki Kubota, Shiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7153958
    Abstract: This invention comprises the novel compounds of formula (I) wherein r, s, t, X, Z, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 have defined meanings, having farnesyl transferase inhibiting activity; their preparation, compositions containing them and their use as a medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.
    Inventors: Patrick René Angibaud, Marc Gaston Venet, Virginie Sophie Poncelet
  • Patent number: 7148221
    Abstract: Compounds having the general structure and compositions containing them, for the treatment of acute, inflammatory and neuropathic pain, dental pain, general headache, migraine, cluster headache, mixed-vascular and non-vascular syndromes, tension headache, general inflammation, arthritis, rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disorders, inflammatory eye disorders, inflammatory or unstable bladder disorders, psoriasis, skin complaints with inflammatory components, chronic inflammatory conditions, inflammatory pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, neuropathic pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, diabetic neuropathy pain, causalgia, sympathetically maintained pain, deafferentation syndromes, asthma, epithelial tissue damage or dysfunction, herpes simplex, disturbances of visceral motility at respiratory, genitourinary, gastrointestinal or vascular regions, wounds, burns, allergic skin reactions, pruritus, vitiligo, general gastrointestinal disorders, gastric ulceration, d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth M. Doherty, Jiawang Zhu, Markian Stec, Mark H. Norman, Hui-Ling Wang, Christopher H. Fotsch, Ning Chen, Partha P. Chakrabarti, Celia Dominguez, James Richard Falsey, Christopher Hulme, Jodie Katon, Thomas Nixey, Vassil I. Ognyanov, Liping H. Pettus, Robert Michael Rzasa
  • Patent number: 7109233
    Abstract: This invention relates in general to certain substituted substituted 1,1,4-1l6-trioxo[1,2]thiazepan-4-ylamides of formula I as defined herein which are protease inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: SMithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Jae U. Jeong, Dennis S. Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7094896
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel diaminothiazoles that are selective inhibitors of Cdk4. These compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters are anti-proliferative agents useful in the treatment or control of solid tumors, in particular breast, colon, lung and prostate tumors. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds as well as intermediates useful in the preparation of the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Qingjie Ding, Paul Gillespie, Kyungjin Kim, Warren William McComas, Agostino Perrotta
  • Patent number: 7060819
    Abstract: Process for making both ACN and HMD from partial hydrogenation of ADN by using a combination of distillations resulting in the formation of a mixture of HMD and THA that can be hydrogenated to produce a mixture of HMD and HMI that can be separated easily by simple distillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Invista North America S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Alan Martin Allgeier, John J. Ostermaier
  • Patent number: 7041145
    Abstract: Fuel made from an emulsion between water and a liquid hydrocarbon and polymeric surfactant, used to stabilize the emulsion, obtainable by (a) reacting (i) at least one polyolefin oligomer functionalized with at least one group deriving from a dicarboxylic acid, or a derivative thereof; and (ii) at least one polyoxylalkylene having linear oxyalkylene units, the polyoxyalkylene being linked to a long-chain alkyl group optionally containing at least one ethylenic unsaturation; and (b) reacting the product of step (a) with (ii) at least one nitrogen compound selected from monoamines, polyamines and quaternary ammonium hydroxides. The fuel has high stability over time, without forming carbonaceous deposits adhering to metal surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: CAM Technologie S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tiziano Ambrosini, Attilio Citterio, Alberto De Amicis, Guido Rivolta
  • Patent number: 7030138
    Abstract: A compound of a formula (1) and pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof: wherein R1 represents hydrogen, halogen, alkyl or hydroxyl; R2 represents hydrogen or halogen; R3 represents hydrogen, alkyl, hydroxyl, carboxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonylalkyl, alkylsulfonyl, alkoxycarbonylalkylsulfonyl, craboxyalkylsulfonyl or carboxyalkylcarbonyl; each of R4 and R5 represents hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, carbamoyl, alkoxy, carboxyl, alkoxycarbonyl, monoalkylcarbamoyl or dialkylcarbamoyl; R6 represents a heterocycle, hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, carboxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonyalkyl, aliphatic or aromatic acyl, carbamoyl, alkylsulfonyl, aryl, formimidoyl, 1-iminoalkyl, N-alkylforminidoyl or iminoarylmethyl; each of R7 and R8 represents hydrogen or alkyl; n represents 0, 1 or 2. The compound exhibits excellent activated blood coagulation factor X inhibitory activity and prevents or treats blood coagulation-related diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Koichi Fujimoto, Naoki Tanaka, Ikuko Shimada, Fumitoshi Asai
  • Patent number: 6943177
    Abstract: Cis-2,6-disubstituted piperdine analogs, or lobeline analogs, having the general formula: are used to treat diseases of the central nervous system, drug abuse and withdrawal therefrom as well as to treating eating disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Linda P. Dwoskin, Peter A. Crooks, Marlon D. Jones
  • Patent number: 6919359
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of Formula I: Azabicyclo-N(R1)—C(?X)—W??Formula I These compounds may be in the form of pharmaceutical salts or compositions, racemic mixtures, or pure enantiomers thereof. The compounds of Formula I are useful in pharmaceuticals in which ?7 is known to be involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc
    Inventors: David W. Piotrowski, Jason K. Myers, Bruce N. Rogers, Eric Jon Jacobsen, Alice L. Bodnar, Vincent E. Groppi, Jr., Daniel Patrick Walker, Brad A. Acker
  • Patent number: 6916345
    Abstract: Dye compositions for dyeing keratin fibers, comprising at least one oxidation base and at least one coupler chosen from 6-alkoxy-2,3-diaminopyridine derivatives of formula (I) as defined herein and the addition salts thereof; the use of the compositions for dyeing keratin fibers; and the dyeing processes using the compositions; as well as at least one entity chosen from novel 6-alkoxy-2,3-diaminopyridine compounds and their addition salts thereof that are useful as couplers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventors: Laurent Vidal, Aziz Fadli
  • Patent number: 6908914
    Abstract: The invention relates to benzene derivatives, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, to processes for preparing them, and to the method of use thereof in the treatment of psychotic disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Sanofi-Synthelabo
    Inventors: Robert Boigegrain, Martine Bourrie, Pierre Lair, Raymond Paul, Martine Poncelet, Jean Claude Vernieres