Owner Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

Inventors Fleshner-Barak, Moshe; Lerner, E Itzhak; Rosenberger, Vered; Aqua, Ofer

Agent Shelston IP

Pub. Number AU-B-2002352613

PCT Number PCT/US02/36081

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/057136

Priority 60/361,821 04.03.02 US; 60/342,442 24.12.01 US

Filing date 12 November 2002

Wipo publication date 24 July 2003

Acceptance publication date 19 April 2007

A61J 3/06 (2006.01) Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms - into the form of pills, lozenges or dragees

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

A61J 3/10 (2006.01) Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms - into the form of compressed tablets

A61K 9/20 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form - Pills, lozenges or tablets

A61K 9/22 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form - Sustained or differential release type

A61K 9/24 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form - Layered or laminated unitary dosage forms

A61K 9/26 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form - Discrete particles in supporting matrix

A61K 9/30 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form - Organic coatings

A61K 31/195 (2006.01)

A61K 31/216 (2006.01)

A61K 31/4045 (2006.01)

A61K 31/433 (2006.01) - Thiadiazoles

A61K 31/663 (2006.01)

A61K 45/06 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations containing active ingredients not provided for in groups

A61K 47/02 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by the non-active ingredients used, e.g. carriers, inert additives - Inorganic compounds

A61K 47/26 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by the non-active ingredients used, e.g. carriers, inert additives - Carbohydrates

A61K 47/32 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by the non-active ingredients used, e.g. carriers, inert additives - Macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds

A61K 47/36 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by the non-active ingredients used, e.g. carriers, inert additives - Polysaccharides

A61K 47/38 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by the non-active ingredients used, e.g. carriers, inert additives - Cellulose

A61P 19/10 (2006.01) Drugs for skeletal disorders

B30B 11/34 (2006.01) Presses specially adapted for forming shaped articles from material in particulate or plastic state, e.g. briquetting presses, tabletting presses