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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION
(19) INDIA (21) Application No.: 1187/MUM/2004 A
(22) Date of filing of Application: 04/11/2004 (43) Publication Date: 09/06/2006
(54) Title of the invention: IMMEDIATE RELEASE SULFONYLUREA TABLETS
(51) International classification : A61K 31/155,
31/64, 45/06
(31) Priority Document No : NIL
(32) Priority Date : NIL
(33) Name of priority country : NIL
(86) International Application No : NIL
and Filing Date : NIL
(87) International Publication No : NIL
(61) Patent of addition to :
Application No
NIL
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Filed on : N.A.
Divisional to Application No : NIL
Filed on : N.A.
(71) Name of Applicant:
GLENMARK PHARMACEUTICALS
LIMITED
Address of the Applicant:
B/2, MAHALAXMI CHAMBERS, 22,
BHULABHAI DESAI ROAD, POST
BOX NO.26511, MUMBAI-400
026,INDIA.
(72) Name of the Inventor:
1. MUTHAIYYAN ESAKKI
KANNAN
2. PREETHI BHUJANGA RAO
3. ANANDI KRISHNAN
Filed U/S 5(2) before The Patents
(Amendment) Act, 2005: YES
(57) Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising (a) a pharmaceutically effective amount of a
sulfonylurea, (b) a dissolution enhancing effective amount of a homopolymer or copolymer of a vinyl pyrrolidone
and (c) one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carrier materials, the composition being in a form of a unit
dosage tablet and being an immediate release composition wherein at least about 50% of the sulfonylurea is
dissolved in vitro within about 5 minutes in a 900 ml phosphate buffer solution of pH of 7.5 at 37ºC
Drawing Sheets: NIL
Total Pages: 22.
Fig. Nil
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