Owner Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

Inventors Soerens, Dave Allen; Makoui, Kambiz Bayat; Laumer, Jason Matthew; Qin, Jian; Sawyer, Lawrence Howell

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2003237240

PCT Number PCT/US03/16436

PCT Pub. Number WO2004/011044

Priority 10/206,888 26.07.02 US

Filing date 23 May 2003

Wipo publication date 16 February 2004

Acceptance publication date 13 November 2008

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A61F 13/49 (2006.01) Bandages, dressings or absorbent pads

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C08L 33/02 (2006.01) Compositions of homopolymers or copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and only one being terminated by only one carboxyl radical, or of salts, anhydrides, esters, amides, imides, or nitriles thereof

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