Owner Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare (UK) Limited

Inventors Myrvold, Rolf; Dickson, Paul Andrew; Axford, Sophie Eugenie; Marshall, Paul; Jolliffe, Ian Gordon

Agent FB Rice

Pub. Number AU-B-2003205868

PCT Number PCT/GB03/00593

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/068246

Priority 0203269.6 12.02.02 GB

Filing date 7 February 2003

Wipo publication date 4 September 2003

Acceptance publication date 17 May 2007

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

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

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

A61K 31/734 (2006.01) - Alginic acid

A61K 33/00 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations containing inorganic active ingredients

A61K 47/34 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by the non-active ingredients used, e.g. carriers, inert additives - Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than 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

A61P 1/04 (2006.01) Drugs for disorders of the alimentary tract or the digestive system