Owner Becton, Dickinson and Company

Inventors Sutter, Diane E; Haider, M Ishaq; Griggs, Julia E; Martin, Frank E; Pettis, Ronald J; Fentress, Jim K; Lockhart, Artis R; Lastovich, Alexander G

Agent FB Rice

Pub. Number AU-B-2003210854

PCT Number PCT/US03/03424

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/066126

Priority 60/353,194 04.02.02 US; 60/389,881 20.06.02 US; 60/407,284 03.09.02 US; 60/377,649 06.05.02 US; 60/420,233 23.10.02 US; 60/397,038 22.07.02 US

Filing date 4 February 2003

Wipo publication date 2 September 2003

Acceptance publication date 29 May 2008

A61K 9/70 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form - Web, sheet or filament bases

A61B 17/20 (2006.01) Surgery - for vaccinating or cleaning the skin previous to the vaccination

A61M 5/42 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way - having means for desensitising skin, for protruding skin to facilitate piercing, or for locating point where body is to be pierced

A61M 31/00 (2006.01) Devices for introducing or retaining media, e.g. remedies, in cavities of the body

A61M 35/00 (2006.01) Devices for applying media, e.g. remedies, on the human body

A61M 37/00 (2006.01) Other apparatus for introducing media into the body

A61M 5/46 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way - having means for controlling depth of insertion