Sustained-release drug dosage units
CA 2031150 C · Owner: Brinker, Dale R. · Inventors: Brinker, Dale R.; Eveline, Enrique D.
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A sustained-release coating composition is described that contains an ethylcellulose and/or a methacrylic methylester together with a plasticizer and a detackifying agent. Sized drug granules are coated with this composition and then mixed with a polymeric composition containing at least one viscosity agent and formed into drug dosage units for the administration and sustained release of the drug in a patient. The sustained-release drug dosage units described produce a continuous, slow release of the drug at a therapeutically effective dosage level when administered to a patient.
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- Filed November 29, 1990 and granted November 21, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 29, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 29, 2012.
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