Hydrogel-driven drug dosage form
CA 2418907 A1 · Owner: Friesen, Dwayne Thomas · Inventors: Babcock, Walter C.; Friesen, Dwayne Thomas; Curatolo, William John
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A controlled release dosage form has a coated core with the core comprising a drug-containing composition and a water-swellable composition each occupying , separate regions within the core. The coating around the core is waterpermeable, water-insoluble and has at least one delivery port therethrough. A variety of geometric arrangements are disclosed.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed August 3, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 3, 2021.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 3, 2023.
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