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© Application number: 93118278.6
I278.6
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int. ci.<>: A61 K 9/14, A61 K 9 / 2 0
@ Date of filing: 11.11.93
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© Applicant: VECTORPHARMA INTERNATIONAL
S.p.A.
Corso Italia, 31
1-34122 Trieste (IT)
Priority: 13.11.92 IT MI922603
@ Date of publication of application:
25.05.94 Bulletin 94/21
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Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE ES FR GB GR IT LI LU NL PT
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Date of deferred publication of the search report:
14.06.95 Bulletin 95/24
@ Inventor: Carli, Fabio
Salita Cedassammare, 3/1
1-34136 Trieste (IT)
Inventor: Lombardi, Daniela
Via Ananian, 19
1-34142 Trieste (IT)
Inventor: Esposito, Pierandrea
Via Montona, 4
1-34145 Trieste (IT)
Inventor: Dobetti, luca
Via Mayer, 13
1-34100 Trieste (IT)
Inventor: Boltri, Luigi
Via Revoltella, 74
1-34139 Trieste (IT)
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Representative: Gervasi, Gemma, Dr.
NOTARBARTOLO & GERVASI Sri
Viale Bianca Maria 33
1-20122 Milano (IT)
Pharmaceutical compositions including a drug, a cross-linked polymeric substance, an oil, and a
surface active agent.
© The pharmaceutical compositions including a
slightly soluble drug incorporated in a water-swellable, but water-insoluble cross-linked polymer, a
surface active agent, and an oil show much improved dissolution and, consequently, bioavailability
in respect of the drug as is or used with a polymeric
carrier of said type.
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Application Number
EP 93 11 8278
EUROPEAN SEARCH REPORT
DOCUMENTS CONSIDERED TO BE RELEVANT
Citation of document with indication, where appropriate,
Relevant
Category
of relevant passages
to claim
D,A
EP-A-0 078 430 (BAYER AG)
* claims *
1-11
D,A
EP-A-0 448 091 (THE GREEN CROSS
CORPORATION)
* claims *
* examples 5-7 *
1-11
D,A
GB-A-2 153 678 (FARMITALIA CARLO ERBA
S.P.A.)
* claims *
1-11
DE-A-32 24 619 (FREUND INDUSTRIAL
CO., LTD.)
* claims 1,2,10,11,13-18 *
1-11
CLASSIFICATION OF THE
APPLICATION (Int.C1.5)
A61K9/14
A61K9/20
TECHNICAL FIELDS
SEARCHED (Im.CI.S)
A61K
The present search report has been drawn up for all claims
Dateof completion ofthe March
Piece ofMarch
21 April 1995
THE HAGUE
CATEGORY OF CITED DOCUMENTS
X: particularly relevant if taken alone
Y: particularly relevant if combined with another
document of the same category
A: technological background
O : non-written disclosure
P : intermediate document
Exanfaer
Scarponi, U
T : theory or principle underlying the invention
E : earlier patent document, but published on, or
after the filing date
D : document cited in the application
L : document cited for other reasons
&: member of the same patent family, corresponding
document