Owner Smith & Nephew PLC

Inventors Rose, John

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2003239428

PCT Number PCT/GB03/00400

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/064531

Priority 0202233.3 31.01.02 GB

Filing date 31 January 2003

Wipo publication date 2 September 2003

Acceptance publication date 24 April 2008

A61L 17/00 (2006.01) Materials for surgical sutures or for ligaturing blood vessels

A61L 17/12 (2006.01) Materials for surgical sutures or for ligaturing blood vessels

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

A61L 31/06 (2006.01) Materials for other surgical articles

C08G 63/06 (2006.01) Macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions forming a carboxylic ester link in the main chain of the macromolecule

C08G 63/08 (2006.01) Macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions forming a carboxylic ester link in the main chain of the macromolecule

C08J 5/24 (2006.01) Manufacture of articles or shaped materials containing macromolecular substances - Impregnating materials with prepolymers which can be polymerised , e.g. manufacture of prepregs

C08L 23/06 (2006.01) Compositions of macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions involving only carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds

C08L 23/12 (2006.01) Compositions of macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions involving only carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds

C08L 33/12 (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

C08L 63/00 (2006.01) Compositions of epoxy resins

C08L 65/00 (2006.01)

C08L 67/04 (2006.01) Compositions of polyesters obtained by reactions forming a carboxylic ester link in the main chain

C08L 101/16 (2006.01) Compositions of unspecified macromolecular compounds

D01F 6/62 (2006.01) Monocomponent artificial filaments or the like of synthetic polymers - from polyesters

D02J 1/22 (2006.01) Modifying the structure or properties resulting from a particular structure - Stretching or tensioning, shrinking or relaxing, e.g. by use of overfeed and underfeed apparatus, or preventing stretch