Owner Glaxo Group Limited

Inventors McAllister, Stephen Mark; Wilson, Alan Anthony; Davies, Michael Birsha; Margetson, Daniel N; Bonney, Stanley George; Matthews, Wayne M.; Brown, Adrian; Rand, Paul, Kenneth

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2003281758

PCT Number PCT/GB2003/0031

PCT Pub. Number WO2004/010978

Priority 0302435.3 03.02.03 GB; 0217336.7 25.07.02 GB

Filing date 24 July 2003

Wipo publication date 16 February 2004

Acceptance publication date 4 October 2007

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

A61J 3/07 (2006.01) Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms - into the form of capsules or similar small containers for oral use

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

A61K 9/48 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form - Preparations in capsules, e.g. of gelatin, of chocolate

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