Owner Smith & Nephew plc

Inventors Downthwaite, Gary Paul; Thomson, Brian Mark; Archer, Charles William; Smith, Mark Frederick

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2001275746

PCT Pub. Number WO02/10348

Priority 0025939.0 24.10.00 GB; 0116888.9 11.07.01 GB; 0116886.3 11.07.01 GB; 0018583.5 29.07.00 GB; 0116885.5 11.07.01 GB

Filing date 30 July 2001

Wipo publication date 13 February 2002

Acceptance publication date 26 April 2007

C12M 3/00 (2006.01) Tissue, human, animal or plant cell, or virus culture apparatus

A61F 2/28 (2006.01) Filters - Bones

A61F 2/30 (2006.01) Filters - Joints

A61K 35/32 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations containing material or reaction products thereof with undetermined constitution - Bones

A61L 27/00 (2006.01) Materials for prostheses or for coating prostheses

A61L 27/38 (2006.01) Materials for prostheses or for coating prostheses

A61P 19/02 (2006.01) Drugs for skeletal disorders

A61P 41/00 (2006.01) Drugs used in surgical methods, e.g. surgery adjuvants for preventing adhesion or for vitreum substitution

C12N 5/00 (2006.01) Undifferentiated human, animal or plant cells, e.g. cell lines

C12N 5/06 (2006.01) Undifferentiated human, animal or plant cells, e.g. cell lines -

C12N 5/08 (2006.01) Undifferentiated human, animal or plant cells, e.g. cell lines -

A61K 35/12 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations containing material or reaction products thereof with undetermined constitution - Materials from mammals or birds