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(43) Date of publication: 23.08.2000 Bulletin 2000/34 (21) Application number: 98967116.9 (22) Date of filing: 17.07.1998

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: A61K 31/135, A61K 9/00, A61K 9/20 (86) International application number: PCT/GB9802/124 (87) International publication number: WO 9903/458 (28.01.1999 Gazette 1999/04)

(84) Designated Contracting States: AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE (30) Priority: 17.07.1997 GB 9715082 (71) Applicant: R.P. Scherer Technologies, Inc. Paradise Valley, Nevada 89119 (US)	(72) Inventor: JOHNSON, Edward Stewart Ruscombe, Berkshire (GB) (74) Representative: Pearce, Anthony Richmond et al MARKS & CLERK,Alpha Tower,Suffolk Street Queensway Birmingham B1 1TT Birmingham B1 1TT (GB)