Patent ID: 8808727

Claim:
A therapeutic device to treat an eye of a patient, the eye having a sclera, the therapeutic device comprising: a rigid-walled, refillable reservoir having a volume and a distal portion, at least the distal portion of the reservoir adapted to reside inside the eye when the device is implanted in the eye, the reservoir having a cross-sectional shape defined along a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the device; a cap portion positioned near the reservoir and adapted to be positioned against an external surface of the sclera when the device is implanted in the eye, the cap portion including at least a portion of a penetrable barrier to introduce the therapeutic agent into the device without any need to explant the device during introduction of the therapeutic agent into the device; and a neck portion adjacent the cap portion, the neck having a cross-sectional shape defined along a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the device, wherein the cross-sectional shapes of the neck portion and the reservoir portions are each defined at their widest locations by a long width, and wherein the reservoir portion has a long width sized larger than the long width of the neck portion.