Owner Glaxo Group Limited

Inventors Warby, Richard, John; Godfrey, Anne Pauline; Ottolangui, David Michael; Cripps, Alan Leslie

Agent Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Pub. Number AU-B-2001258585

PCT Pub. Number WO01/89616

Priority 0012522 23.05.00 GB; 0031502 22.12.00 GB

Filing date 22 May 2001

Wipo publication date 3 December 2001

Acceptance publication date 21 December 2006

B65D 83/34 (2006.01) Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents - Cleaning or preventing clogging of the discharge passage

A61J 1/05 (2006.01) Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes - for collecting, storing or administering blood, plasma or medical fluids

A61J 1/14 (2006.01) Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes - Details

A61J 3/00 (2006.01) Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms

A61K 9/72 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form - for smoking or inhaling

A61K 31/137 (2006.01) - Arylalkylamines, e.g. amphetamine, epinephrine, salbutamol, ephedrine

A61K 47/06 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by the non-active ingredients used, e.g. carriers, inert additives - Organic compounds

A61M 15/00 (2006.01) Inhaling devices

A61P 11/00 (2006.01) Drugs for disorders of the respiratory system

A61P 11/06 (2006.01) Drugs for disorders of the respiratory system

A61P 29/00 (2006.01) Non-central analgesic, antipyretic or antiinflammatory agents, e.g antirheumatic agents

B65D 77/00 (2006.01) Packages formed by enclosing articles or materials in preformed containers, e.g. boxes, cartons, sacks, bags

B65D 81/26 (2006.01) Containers, packaging elements, or packages, of special types or forms or specially adapted for organisms, articles, or materials presenting particular transport, storage, or dispensing problems - with provision for draining away, or absorbing, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents

B65D 83/14 (2006.01) Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents - for delivery of liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers

B65D 83/36 (2006.01) Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents - allowing operation in any orientation

A61K 9/00 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form