Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Mark R. Daniel
  • Patent number: 7947664
    Abstract: A compound having the structure wherein R is an angiotensin receptor antagonist active group, Y is selected from the group consisting of and 2) —C(R1H)OC(O)X((CR12R13)—(CHR10)m—(CH2)n—Zp—(CH2)q—(CHR11)r—(CR16R17))—R5; Z is —O— or —(CR14R15)—; m, n, p, q, and r are independently selected from the group consisting of 0 and 1; X is —O— or —(CR18R19)—; R1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl, aryl and C1-4 alkylaryl; R5 is —O—N?N(O)—NR3R4; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or hydrate thereof, which is useful for treating hypertension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Amjad Ali, Michael Man-Chu Lo, Christopher Franklin, Brent R. Whitehead
  • Patent number: 7935727
    Abstract: Compounds having a biphenyl group substituted with a phenyl or heteroaromatic group, as shown in 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:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Yi-Heng Chen, Zhijian Lu, Peter J. Sinclair
  • Patent number: 7915252
    Abstract: Sulfonyl derivatives of structural formula I are selective inhibitors of the 11?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1. The compounds are useful for the treatment of diabetes, such as noninsulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM), hyperglycemia, obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome or Syndrome X, and other symptoms associated with NIDDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme
    Inventors: Sherman T. Waddell, James M. Balkovec, Gina M. Santorelli, Aaron H. Leeman, Milana Maletic, Xin Gu
  • Patent number: 7915271
    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: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Amjad Ali, Zhijian Lu, Peter J. Sinclair, Yi-Heng Chen, Cameron J. Smith, Hong Li
  • Patent number: 7910592
    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. In the compounds of Formula (I), B is a cyclic group other than phenyl, and B has a cyclic substituent at a position that is ortho to the position at which B is connected to the remainder of the structure of Formula (I). The 5-membered ring of Formula (I) has a second cyclic substituent in addition to B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Amjad Ali, Zhijian Lu, Peter J. Sinclair, Yi-Heng Chen, Cameron J. Smith, Hong Li, Christopher F. Thompson
  • Patent number: 7906521
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds useful as potassium channel inhibitors to treat cardiac arrhythmias, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: B. Wesley Trotter, Richard Isaacs
  • Patent number: 7879839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds having the structure useful as potassium channel inhibitors to treat cardiac arrhythmias, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Dinsmore, Jeffrey M. Bergman, Douglas C. Beshore, B. Wesley Trotter, Kausik K. Nanda, Richard Isaacs, Linda S. Payne, Lou Anne Neilson, Zhicai Wu, Mark T. Bilodeau, Peter J. Manley, Adrienne E. Balitza
  • Patent number: 7863307
    Abstract: An efficient process is disclosed for producing a compound that is an inhibitor of CETP. The last step of the process is the coupling of an oxazolidinone derivative with a biphenyl moiety to provide a compound of formula (I). In a specific embodiment of this synthesis, a crystalline product is produced which is characterized as a non-solvated crystalline polymorph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Inventors: Ross A. Miller, Aaron S. Cote
  • Patent number: 7786305
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of the formula I: (wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, X, n and the dashed line are defined herein) which are useful as modulators of chemokine receptor activity. In particular, these compounds are useful as modulators of the chemokine receptor CCR-2. The present invention is also directed to intermediates useful in the preparation of formula I compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Richard Jiao, Gregori Morriello, Lihu Yang, Changyou Zhou, Shankaran Kothandaraman, Christopher Moyes
  • Patent number: 7781426
    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. In the compounds of Formula (I), B or R2 is a phenyl group which has an ortho amine or aminomethyl substituent which is further substituted, and the other of B or R2 is also a cyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Amjad Ali, Zhijian Lu, Peter J. Sinclair, Gayle E. Taylor, Christopher F. Thompson, Cameron J. Smith, Adrian A. Dowst, Yi-Heng Chen
  • Patent number: 7737295
    Abstract: Compounds 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. In the compounds of Formula 1, A1 and A2 are each an aromatic ring, a 5-6-membered heterocyclic ring, an aromatic ring fused to a heterocyclic ring, a phenyl ring fused to a heterocyclic ring, or a cycloalkyl ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Amjad Ali, Joann Bohn, Qiaolin Deng, Zhijian Lu, Peter J. Sinclair, Gayle E. Taylor, Christopher F. Thompson, Nazia Quraishi
  • Patent number: 7700591
    Abstract: Cyclopentyl compounds linked to a benzoxazinyl group through an amido moiety utilizing the ring nitrogen of the benzoxazine, and further substituted with a heterocyclic moiety, such compounds represented by formula I: which are used to modulate the CCR-2 chemokine receptor to prevent or treat inflammatory and immunoregulatory disorders and diseases, allergic diseases, atopic conditions including allergic rhinitis, dermatitis, conjunctivitis, and asthma, as well as autoimmune pathologies such as rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis; and pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen D. Goble, Sander G. Mills, Lihu Yang, Alexander Pasternak, Celine Bonnefous, Theodore M Kamenecka, Jean-Michel Vernier, John H. Hutchinson, Essa Hu, Steven Govek
  • Patent number: 7659408
    Abstract: Pyrazole carboxamides of structural formula I are selective inhibitors of the 11?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1. The compounds are useful for the treatment of diabetes, such as noninsulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM), hyperglycemia, obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome, and other symptoms associated with NIDDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dhome Corp.
    Inventors: Ying-Duo Gao, Xin Gu, Nancy J. Kevin, Sherman T. Waddell
  • Patent number: 7652049
    Abstract: Compounds having the structures 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: In the compounds of Formula I, B or R2 is a phenyl group which has an ortho aryl, heterocyclic, benzoheterocyclic or benzocycloalkyl substituent, and one other position on the 5-membered ring has an aromatic, heterocyclic, cycloalkyl, benzoheterocyclic or benzocycloalkyl substituent connected directly to the ring or attached to the ring through a —CH2—.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Amjad Ali, Joann M. Napolitano, Qiaolin Deng, Zhijian Lu, Peter J. Sinclair, Gayle E. Taylor, Christopher F. Thompson, Nazia Quraishi, Cameron J. Smith, Julianne A. Hunt, Adrian A. Dowst, Yi-Heng Chen, Hong Li
  • Patent number: 7629372
    Abstract: A class of compounds having Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are useful as therapeutic compounds, particularly in the treatment of hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, dyslipidemia, and other lipid disorders, and in delaying the onset of or reducing the risk of developing conditions and sequelae that are associated with these diseases, such as atherosclerosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: James F. Dropinski, Guo Q. Shi, Yong Zhang
  • Patent number: 7598243
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of the formula I: Wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, X, n and the broken lines are as defined herein which are useful as modulators of chemokine receptor activity. In particular, these compounds are useful as modulators of the chemokine receptor CCR-2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Gabor Butora, Stephen D. Goble, Alexander Pasternak, Lihu Yang, Changyou Zhou, Christopher R. Moyes
  • Patent number: 7589085
    Abstract: The present invention is further directed to compounds of the formulas: (I) (II) (wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R15, R16, R17, R18, R19, R24 and R25 are as defined herein) which are modulators of chemokine receptor activity and are useful in the prevention or treatment of certain inflammatory and immunoregulatory disorders and diseases, allergic diseases, atopic conditions including allergic rhinitis, dermatitis, conjunctivitis, and asthma, as well as autoimmune pathologies such as rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which chemokine receptors are involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Gabor Butora, Lihu Yang, Stephen D. Goble
  • Patent number: 7034026
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds comprising a 2,3-diphenylquinoxaline moiety which inhibit the activity of Akt, a serine/threonine protein kinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley F. Barnett, Samuel L. Graham, David C. Remy
  • Patent number: 6835727
    Abstract: This invention relates to a novel class of compounds which are cysteine protease inhibitors, including but not limited to, inhibitors of Cathepsins K and L. These compounds are useful for treating diseases in which inhibition of bone resorption is indicated, such as osteoporosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignees: Merck Frosst Canada & Co., Banyu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Axys Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Okamoto, Jean-Pierre Falgueyret, Renata Marcella Oballa, Petpiboon Prasit, Robert Rydzewski
  • Patent number: 6800785
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for the synthesis of intermediates useful for the synthesis of estrogen receptor modulators. The process includes new methods for annelating 5-, 6- and 7-membered cycloalkenones onto an indanone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Dongfang Meng