Benzothiazoles (including Hydrogenated) Patents (Class 544/135)
  • Publication number: 20110263593
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidine derivatives of formula (I) and isomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Methods for preparing the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treatment also are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: sanofi-aventis
    Inventors: Eric Bacque, Dominique Damour, Conception Nemecek, Patrick Nemecek, Laurent Schio, Sylvie Wentzler
  • Publication number: 20110257153
    Abstract: Aryl-substituted bridged or fused diamine compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using the compounds and the pharmaceutical compositions for leukotriene A4 hydrolase (LTA4H or LTA4H) modulation and for the treatment of disease states, disorders, and conditions mediated by LTA4H activity, such as allergy, asthma, autoimmune diseases, pruritis, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, and cardiovascular disease, including atherosclerosis and prevention of myocardial infarction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Genesis M. Bacani, Scott D. Bembenek, Wendy Eccles, James P. Edwards, Matthew T. Epperson, Laurent Gomez, Cheryl A. Grice, Aaron M. Kearney, Adrienne M. Landry-Bayle, Alice Lee-Dutra, Kelly J. Mcclure, Taraneh Mirzadegan, Alexandro Santillan, JR.
  • Publication number: 20110251386
    Abstract: Disclosed is a compound which is useful as an endothelial lipase inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: SHIONOGI & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Masuda, Shiro Kida, Kyohei Hayashi, Manabu Katou, Naoki Yoshikawa, Akira Kugimiya, Mado Nakajima, Nobuyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20110251193
    Abstract: Novel classes of 1,2-benzisothiazolinone and isoindolinone compounds and compositions are disclosed. These compounds and compositions are useful in treating, preventing, and/or ameliorating viral, yeast, and fungal infections such as, for example, Hepatitis C Virus, Flavivirus infections, Aspergillus fumigatus, and candidiasis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicants: WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Richard A. Calderone, William C. Groutas, Brent E. Korba
  • Publication number: 20110201604
    Abstract: Substituted fused imidazole derivatives, methods of their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising a substituted fused imidazole derivative, and methods of use in treating inflammation are provided. The substituted fused imidazole derivatives may control the activity or the amount or both the activity and the amount of heme-oxygenase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: HIGH POINT PHARMACEUTICALS, LLC
    Inventors: Adnan M. M. Mjalli, Dharma Rao Polisetti, Jareer Nabeel Kassis, Matthew J. Kostura, Mustafa Guzel, Otis Clinton Attucks, Robert Carl Andrews, Samuel Victory, Suparna Gupta
  • Patent number: 7985749
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with the activity of Cathepsin S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Hong Liu, David C. Tully, Arnab Chatterjee, Phillip B. Alper, David H. Woodmansee, Daniel Mutnick
  • Publication number: 20110178083
    Abstract: Vicinal substituted cyclopropyl compounds which are inhibitors of phosphodiesterase 10 are described as are processes, pharmaceutical compositions, pharmaceutical preparations and pharmaceutical use of the compounds in the treatment of mammals, including human(s) for central nervous system (CNS) disorders and other disorders which may affect CNS function, for example neurological, neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders including, but not limited to, those comprising cognitive deficits or schizophrenic symptoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Amy Ripka, Gideon Shapiro, Richard Chesworth
  • Patent number: 7951954
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds according to formula (I), a process for preparing them, the intermediate compounds of the process and the use of the compounds in the manufacture of a medicament for use in treating diseases such as ARDS, pulmonary emphysema, bronchitis, bronchiectasis, COPD, asthma and rhinitis. The compounds are beta adrenoreceptor agonists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Lilian Alcaraz, Andrew Lister, Garry Pairaudeau
  • Patent number: 7928133
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for modulating the activity of the hedgehog signaling pathway. In particular, the invention provides a method for inhibiting aberrant growth states resulting from phenotypes such as Ptc loss-of-function, hedgehog gain-of-function, smoothened gain-of-function or Gli gain-of-function, comprising contacting a cell with a sufficient amount of a compound of Formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: IRM LLC
    Inventors: Dai Cheng, Dong Han, Wenqi Gao, Jiqing Jiang, Shifeng Pan, Yongqin Wan, Qihui Jin
  • Publication number: 20100324039
    Abstract: Disclosed are substituted indolealkanoic acids useful in the treatment of chronic complications arising from diabetes mellitus. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods of treatment employing the compounds, as well as methods for their synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Jones, David Gunn, John Howard Jones, Michael Van Zandt
  • Publication number: 20100317842
    Abstract: The present application discloses methods for identifying inhibitors with high binding-affinity for the carbonic anhydrase-IX (CA-IX) enzyme using click chemistry and uses the candidates thereof as positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Hartmuth C. Kolb, Joseph C. Walsh, Dhanalakshmi Kasi, Vani P. Mocharla, Bing Wang, Umesh B. Gangadharmath, Brian A. Duclos, Kai Chen, Wei Zhang, Gang Chen, Henry Clifton Padgett, Farhad Karimi, Peter J.H. Scott, Zhiyong Gao, Qianwa Liang, Thomas Lee Collier, Tieming Zhao, Chunfang Xia
  • Publication number: 20100311741
    Abstract: This invention pertains generally to the field of therapeutic compounds, and more particularly, to certain bicyclosulfonyl acid (BCSA) compounds which act as inhibitors of Tumour Necrosis Factor-? Converting Enzyme (TACE). The compounds are useful in the treatment of conditions mediated by TNF-?, such as rheumatoid arthritis; inflammation; psoriasis; septic shock; graft rejection; cachexia; anorexia; congestive heart failure; post ischaemic reperfusion injury; inflammatory disease of the central nervous system; inflammatory bowel disease; insulin resistance; HIV infection; cancer; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); and asthma. The present invention also pertains to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and the use of such compounds and compositions, both in vitro and in vivo, in the inhibition of TACE, and in the treatment of conditions that are ameliorated by the inhibition of TACE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: INHIBOX LTD.
    Inventors: Aigars Jirgensons, Gundars Leitis, Ivars Kalvinsh, Daniel Robinson, Paul Finn, Nagma Khan
  • Patent number: 7847101
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical pyrazolybenzothiazole compositions of formula (1) are provided. The compositions may be pharmaceutically acceptable salts. R1, R2 and R3 at each occurrence are independently selected from amino, aminosulfinyl, aminosulfonyl, aryl, azido, halogen, heteroalkyl, heteroaryl, hydrazinyl, hydrocarbyl, hydrogen, hydroxyl, nitro, nitroso, phosphate, phosphinate, phosphonate, phosphonium, phosphorothioate, phosphoryl, sulfamoyl, sulfate, sulfinic acid, sulfonamido, sulfonate, sulfonic acid, sulfonyl, sulfoxido, thiol, thioureido, and ureido, and R4 is selected from hydrogen, heteroalkyl, heteroaryl, and hydrocarbyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Valocor Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Zaihui Zhang, Timothy S. Daynard, Shisen Wang, Xinyao Du, Gregory B. Chopiuk, Jun Yan, Jianxin Chen, Serguei V. Sviridov
  • Publication number: 20100305067
    Abstract: Compound of formula (I) have antibacterial activity: wherein: m is 0 or 1; Q is hydrogen or cyclopropyl; AIk is an optionally substituted, divalent C1-C6 alkylene, alkenylene or alkynylene radical which may contain an ether (—O—), thioether (—S—) or amino (—NR)— link, wherein R is hydrogen, —CN or C1-C3 alkyl; X is —C(?O)NR6—, or —C(?O)O— wherein R6 is hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl or C2-C6 alkynyl; Z1 is —N? or —CH?Z2 is —N? or —C(R1)?; R1 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, ethenyl, ethynyl, methoxy, mercapto, mercaptomethyl, halo, fully or partially fluorinated (C1-C2)alkyl, (C1-C2Jalkoxy or (C1-C2)alkylthio, nitro, or nitrile (—CN); R2 is a group Q1-[Alk1]q-Q2-, wherein q is 0 or 1; AIk1 is an optionally substituted, divalent, straight chain or branched C1-C6 alkylene, or C2-C6 alkenylene or C2-C6 alkynylene radical which may contain or terminate in an ether (—O—), thioether (—S—) or amino (—NR)— link; Q2 is an optionally substituted divalent monocyclic carbocyclic or heterocyclic ra
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: BIOTA EUROPE LTD
    Inventors: David John Haydon, Lloyd George Czaplewski
  • Publication number: 20100292208
    Abstract: Compounds with two fused bicyclic heteroaryl moieties and their pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using them as leukotriene A4 hydrolase (LTA4H) modulators and for the treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions mediated by LTA4H.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Genesis Bacani, Christa C. Chrovian, Wendy Eccles, Anne M. Fourie, Laurent Gomez, Cheryl A. Grice, Aaron M. Kearney, Adrienne M. Landry-Bayle, Alice Lee-Dutra, Alejandro Santillán, JR., Virginia M. Tanis, John J. M. Wiener
  • Publication number: 20100292232
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are antiviral agents, in particular non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) of the formula Also disclosed are methods of making the NNRTIs, as well as compositions that include such NNRTIs and methods of their use for treating viral infections, in particular retroviral infections, such as HIV infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Daniel Elleder, John A.T. Young, Thomas J. Baiga, Joseph P. Noel
  • Publication number: 20100273793
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to compounds of formula (I): wherein A, W, R, R5, and R6 are as defined in the disclosure, or a salt thereof, and to their use as drugs, in particular as c-Met inhibitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: SANOFI-AVENTIS
    Inventors: Conception Nemecek, Sylvie Wentzler
  • Publication number: 20100240889
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I): in which R1, R?1, R2, R?2, R3, Y and G have the meanings given in the description, to a process for their preparation, their application by way of medicaments, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: PROSKELIA SAS
    Inventors: Pierre DePrez, Hélène Jary, Taoues Temal
  • Patent number: 7767811
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for the kinetic resolution of racemic and diastereomeric mixtures of chiral compounds. The critical elements of the method are: a non-racemic chiral tertiary-amine-containing catalyst; a racemic or diastereomeric mixture of a chiral substrate, e.g., a cyclic carbonate or cyclic carbamate; and a nucleophile, e.g., an alcohol, amine or thiol. A preferred embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for achieving the kinetic resolution of racemic and diastereomeric mixtures of derivatives of ?- and ?-amino, hydroxy, and thio carboxylic acids. In certain embodiments, the methods of the present invention achieve dynamic kinetic resolution of a racemic or diastereomeric mixture of a substrate, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Brandeis University
    Inventors: Li Deng, Jianfeng Hang, Liang Tang
  • Publication number: 20100137301
    Abstract: Disclosed are substituted indolealkanoic acids useful in the treatment of chronic complications arising from diabetes mellitus. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods of treatment employing the compounds, as well as methods for their synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Lee Jones, David Gunn, John Howard Jones, Michael C. Van Zandt
  • Publication number: 20100099671
    Abstract: A compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, represented by the formula (1), (wherein, the carbon atom marked with an * is in the R-configuration, R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, a hydroxyamino group, a nitro group, a cyano group, a sulfamoyl group, a C1-C6 alkyl group, or a C1-C6 alkoxy group, R2 represents a C3-C6 cycloalkylsulfanyl group, a C3-C6 cycloalkylsulfinyl group, or a C3-C6 cycloalkylsulfonyl group, and A represents a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Yasumichi Fukuda, Yoshikazu Asahina, Masanori Takadoi, Kohei Ohata, Tomohiro Ide, Fumiyoshi Kobayashi, Shinji Kobayashi, Kanji Komatsu, Masanori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7659269
    Abstract: Disclosed are substituted indolealkanoic acids useful in the treatment of chronic complications arising from diabetes mellitus. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods of treatment employing the compounds, as well as methods for their synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: The Institute for Pharmaceutical Discovery, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Jones, David Gunn, John Jones, Michael Van Zandt
  • Publication number: 20100016304
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1): (wherein the carbon atom denoted by * is in the R-configuration; R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, a hydroxyamino group, a nitro group, a cyano group, a sulfamoyl group, a C1-C6 alkyl group, a C1-C6 alkoxy group, a C1-C6 alkylsulfanyl group, a C1-C6 alkylsulfinyl group or a C1-C6 alkylsulfonyl group; and A is a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Yasumichi Fukuda, Yoshikazu Asahina, Ayako Nakamura, Kenji Fujita, Tomohiro Ide, Fumiyoshi Kobayashi, Shinji Kobayashi, Kanji Komatsu, Masanori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7642274
    Abstract: The invention aims to provide a drug having an activity on inhibiting a decrease in pain threshold. Since a ?-opioid receptor agonist effectively inhibits the decrease in pain threshold, it is useful as an inhibitor of pain threshold decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoichi Shimomura, Hiroyuki Aono, Yaeko Tsukahara, Taeko Hata
  • Patent number: 7576110
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are useful in treating conditions or disorders prevented by or ameliorated by histamine-3 receptor ligands. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the histamine-3 receptor ligands, methods for using such compounds and compositions, and a process for preparing compounds within the scope of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Marlon D. Cowart, Minghua Sun, Chen Zhao, Guo Zhu Zheng
  • Publication number: 20090186870
    Abstract: A compound of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in which R1, R2, R3, R4 and m are as described in the specification for use in the treatment of obesity and/or diabetes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Jack McQueen ALLEN, Roger John Butlin, Clive Green, William McCoull, Graeme Richard Robb, James Matthew Wood
  • Publication number: 20090143376
    Abstract: Provided herein are novel sirtuin-modulating compounds and methods of use thereof. The sirtuin-modulating compounds may be used for increasing the lifespan of a cell, and treating and/or preventing a wide variety of diseases and disorders including, for example, diseases or disorders related to aging or stress, diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative diseases, chemotherapeutic induced neuropathy, neuropathy associated with an ischemic event, polyglutamine diseases, ocular diseases and/or disorders, cardiovascular disease, blood clotting disorders, inflammation, cancer, and/or flushing. Also provided are compositions comprising a sirtuin-modulating compound in combination with another therapeutic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Sitris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Milburn, Jill Milne, Jean Bemis, Joseph J. Nunes, Roger Xie, Karl D. Nomington, Chi B. Vu
  • Publication number: 20090137570
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds, compositions and methods for the selective inhibition of cathepsin S. In a preferred aspect, cathepsin S is selectively inhibited in the presence of at least one other cathepsin isozyme. The present invention also provides methods for treating a disease state in a subject by selectively inhibiting cathepsin S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: IRM LLC
    Inventors: Hong LIU, Arnab K. CHATTERJEE, David C. TULLY, Phillip B. ALPER, Badry BURSULAYA, Jianhua GUO, David H. WOODMANSEE, Daniel MUTNICK, Donald S. KARANEWSKY, Yun HE
  • Publication number: 20090118272
    Abstract: A compound of Formula (I) an enantiomer, diastereomer or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, wherein A is independently selected from: further wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and W are as described herein. Also disclosed is a compound of Formula (II) an enantiomer, diastereomer, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, wherein each of G, X and Y are independently CH or N, wherein at each occurrence at least one of G, X or Y is N and the other two of G, X or Y are CH; and B is independently selected from: further wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R8, R9 and Z are as described herein. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II), and methods of treating conditions associated with the activity of p38 kinase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Chunjian Liu, Katerina Leftheris, James Lin
  • Publication number: 20090069317
    Abstract: The invention relates to insecticidal methods using 3-amino-1,2-benzoisothiazole compounds of the formula (I) wherein the variables n and R1 to R6 are as defined in the description. The invention relates to methods of combating or controlling insects, arachnids or nematodes, to methods for protecting growing plants from attack or infestation by insects, arachnids or nematodes, and to methods for the protection of seeds from soil insects and of the seedlings' roots and shoots from soil and foliar insects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Pohlman, Wolfgang von Deyn, Florian Kaiser, Michael Rack, Henricus Maria Martinus Bastiaans, Douglas D. Anspaugh, Deborah L. Culbertson, Henry Van Tuyl Cotter
  • Publication number: 20090062259
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds according to formula (I), a process for preparing them, the intermediate compounds of the process and the use of the compounds in the manufacture of a medicament for use in treating diseases such as ARDS, pulmonary emphysema, bronchitis, bronchiectasis, COPD, asthma and rhinitis. The compounds are beta adrenoreceptor agonists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Lilian Alcaraz, Andrew Lister, Garry Pairaudeau
  • Publication number: 20080306060
    Abstract: A series of 5,6-dihydro-1,3-benzothiazol-7(4H)-one derivatives, and analogues thereof, which are substituted in the 2-position by an optionally substituted morpholin-4-yl moiety, being selective inhibitors of PD kinase enzymes, are accordingly of benefit in medicine, for example in the treatment of inflammatory, autoimmune, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, metabolic, oncological, nociceptive or ophthalmic conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: UCB PHARMA S.A.
    Inventors: Rikki Peter Alexander, Pavandeep Aujla, Mark James Batchelor, Daniel Christopher Brookings, George Martin Buckley, Karen Viviane Lucile Crepy, Claire Louise Kulisa, James Petrie Turner
  • Publication number: 20080214540
    Abstract: Disclosed are substituted indolealkanoic acids useful in the treatment of chronic complications arising from diabetes mellitus. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods of treatment employing the compounds, as well as methods for their synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Lee Jones, David Gunn, John Howard Jones, Michael C. Van Zandt
  • Publication number: 20080194555
    Abstract: This invention relates to benzimidazole and benzothiazole compounds of formula (I) to methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and to methods of treatment comprising administering of such compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: AVENTIS PHARMA S.A.
    Inventors: Conception NEMECEK, Francois CLERC
  • Publication number: 20080125424
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to compounds represented in Formula I, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and methods of treating of diseases or disorders related to the function of the calcium sensing receptor. The invention also relates to processes for making such compounds and to intermediates useful in these processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Pierre DePrez, Sarah E. Lively, Taoues Temal
  • Patent number: 7371749
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formulae IA and IB wherein R1 and R2 are each independently lower alkyl or —(CH2)m—O-lower alkyl, or together with the N atom to which they are attached form a heterocyclic ring; R3 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R4 is lower alkyl; hetaryl is 3H-imidazole-2,4-diyl or 1H-pyrazole-1,4-diyl; n is 1 or 2; and m is 1 or 2; and to pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. These compounds may be used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, neuroprotection, schizophrenia, anxiety, pain, respiration deficits, depression, ADHD, drug addiction, such as amphetamine, cocaine, opioids, ethanol, nicotine, cannabinoids, or for the treatment of asthma, allergic responses, hypoxia, ischaemia, seizure and substance abuse, or for use as sedatives, muscle relaxants, antipsychotics, antiepileptics, anticonvulsants and cardiaprotective agents for coronary artery disease and heart failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Flohr, Claus Riemer
  • Patent number: 7371748
    Abstract: This invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1 and R2 are defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. It has been found that the compounds of formula I are adenosine receptor ligands with good affinity to the A2A-receptor and a high selectivity to the A1- and A3 receptors. These compounds are useful, inter alia, in treatment of Alzheimer's disease, depression, Parkinson's disease and ADHD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Flohr, Roland Jakob-Roetne, Roger David Norcross, Claus Riemer
  • Patent number: 7348347
    Abstract: Substituted 4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzothiazol-2-ylamine compounds, a method for their production; pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and methods of use for modulating biological functions and/or treating or inhibiting various medical conditions such as, e.g., depression and pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Oberboersch, Corinna Sundermann, Bernd Sundermann, Edward Bijsterveld
  • Patent number: 7314872
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds, compositions and methods for the selective inhibition of cathepsin S. In a preferred aspect, cathepsin S is selectively inhibited in the presence of at least one other cathepsin isozyme. The present invention also provides methods for treating a disease state in a subject by selectively inhibiting cathepsin S. More particularly, the present invention provides compounds having Formula I: wherein Q is morpholinyl; and A, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and Ar are substituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: IRM LLC
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Arnab Chatterjee, David C. Tully, Phillip Alper, Badry Bursulaya, Jianhua Guo, David H. Woodmansee, Daniel Mutnick, Donald S. Karanewsky, Yun He
  • Patent number: 7304058
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula I wherein R, X and n are defined hereinabove, and to a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound may be used for the treatment of diseases related to the A2A receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Flohr, Roland Jakob-Roetne, Roger David Norcross, Claus Riemer
  • Patent number: 7285548
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1 and R2 are described herein, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof for the treatment of diseases, related to the A2A receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Flohr, Roland Jakob-Roetne, Roger David Norcross, Claus Riemer
  • Patent number: 7226940
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain substituted heterocycles of Formula (I) which are useful in the treatment of diseases related to lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, such as type 2 diabetes, adipocyte differentiation, uncontrolled proliferation, such as lymphoma, Hodgkin's Disease, leukemia, breast cancer, prostate cancer or cancers in general; and inflammation, such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's Disease or Inflammatory Bowel Disease
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignees: Incyte San Diego, Inc., Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc.
    Inventors: Magnus Pfahl, Catherine Tachdjian, Hussien A. Al-Shamma, Andrea Fanjul, David P. M. Pleynet, Lyle W. Spruce
  • Patent number: 7205312
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with compounds of formula the N-oxides, the pharmaceutically acceptable addition salts and the stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, wherein R1 is hydrogen, hydroxy, C1-6alkyl or aryl; R2 is hydrogen; optionally substituted C1-12alkyl; C3-7cycloalkyl; C2-8alkenyl, optionally substituted pyrrolidinyl or aryl; R3 is hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-6alkyl or aryl; Het is an optionally substituted unsaturated heterocycle selected from imidazolyl, triazolyl, tetrazolyl and pyridinyl; is an optionally substituted unsaturated mono- or bicyclic heterocycle; and aryl is optionally substituted phenyl. The present invention also relates to processes for their preparation and compositions comprising said new compounds, as well as their use as a medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V.
    Inventors: Marc Gaston Venet, Dominique Jean-Pierre Mabire, Jean Fernand Armand Lacrampe, Gerard Charles Sanz
  • Patent number: 7141595
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel amino benzothiazole compounds, compositions comprising these compounds and methods of using these compounds as neuroprotectants. In particular, the compounds described in the present invention are useful for treating stroke and neuropathic pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Neuraxon Inc.
    Inventors: Jailall Ramnauth, Suman Rakhit, Shawn Maddaford, Namrta Bhardwaj
  • Patent number: 7122545
    Abstract: The invention relates to 2-imidazo-benzothiazoles of general formula wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R?, R?, X, R?? and n are defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. It has been found that the compound of formula I are adenosine receptor ligands with good affinity to the A1 and A3 receptors. These compounds have useful pharmaceutical activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Flohr, Roland Jakob-Roetne, Roger David Norcross, Claus Riemer
  • Patent number: 7105514
    Abstract: Disclosed are substituted indolealkanoic acids useful in the treatment of chronic complications arising from diabetes mellitus. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods of treatment employing the compounds, as well as methods for their synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: The Institute for Dibetes Discovery LLC
    Inventors: Michael Lee Jones, David Gunn, John Howard Jones, Michael C. Van Zandt
  • Patent number: 7045518
    Abstract: Selected sulfonylalkanoylamino hydroxyethylamine sulfonamide compounds are effective as retroviral protease inhibitors, and in particular as inhibitors of HIV protease. The present invention relates to such retroviral protease inhibitors and, more particularly, relates to selected novel compounds, composition and method for inhibiting retroviral proteases, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease, prophylactically preventing retroviral infection or the spread of a retrovirus, and treatment of a retroviral infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: G.D. Searle & Co.
    Inventors: Daniel P. Getman, Gary A. DeCrescenzo, John N. Freskos, Michael L. Vazquez, James A. Sikorski, Balekudru Devadas, Srinivasan Raj Nagarajan, Joseph J. McDonald
  • Patent number: 7019001
    Abstract: A compound of formula I and a method of treatment of diseases, related to modulation of the adenosine A2 receptor system comprising administering a compound of formula to a person in need of such treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Flohr, Roland Jakob-Roetne, Roger David Norcross, Claus Riemer
  • Patent number: 6987184
    Abstract: Isothiazoloanthrones, isooxazoloanthrones, isoindolanthrones, and derivatives thereof having the general formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R0 is —CH2—, —SO—, —O—, —SO2—, or —S—; compositions comprising the isothiazoloanthrones, isooxazoloanthrones, isoindolanthrones, and derivatives thereof; and methods for treating or preventing a disorder alleviated by inhibiting Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) by administering the isothiazoloanthrones, isooxazoloanthrones, isoindolanthrones, and derivatives thereof are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Signal Pharmaceuticals, LLC
    Inventors: Steven T. Sakata, Heather K. Raymon
  • Patent number: RE39265
    Abstract: Heteroarylpiperidines, pyrrolidines, and piperazines are useful as antipsychotic and analgesic agents. The compounds are especially useful for treating psychoses by administering to a mammal a psychoses-treating effective amount of one of the compounds. The compounds are also useful as analgesics by administering a pain-relieving effective amount of one of the compounds to a mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph T. Strupczewski, Kenneth J. Bordeau, Edward J. Glamkowski, Yulin Chiang, Grover C. Helsley