Patent ID: 7897168

Claim:
An implantable medical device having a controlled release biodegradable polymer coating thereon, wherein the polymeric coating comprises: a polymer of the general structure of Formula 6: wherein a is an integer from 1 to about 20,000; b is an integer from about 1 to about 20,000; c is an integer from about 1 to about 20,000; and the sum of a, b and c is at least 3; and at least one drug selected from the group consisting of FKBP-12 binding agents, estrogens, chaperone inhibitors, protease inhibitors, protein-tyrosine kinase inhibitors, leptomycin B, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma ligands (PPARγ), hypothemycin, nitric oxide, bisphosphonates, epidermal growth factor inhibitors, antibodies, proteasome inhibitors, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, anti-sense nucleotides and transforming nucleic acids.