PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873282
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["427", "002240"]

Abstract:
A balloon coating method and a balloon coating apparatus are disclosed for forming a coating layer containing a water-insoluble drug on an outer surface of a balloon of a balloon catheter. The balloon coating method including fixing a connection portion between the balloon and an inner tube passing through an inside of the balloon, and moving a dispensing tube relative to the balloon in an axial direction of the balloon while rotating the balloon about an axis of the balloon and while also dispensing the coating liquid containing the water-insoluble drug from the dispensing tube to apply the coating liquid to the outer surface of the balloon.

Claim (Index 14):
The balloon coating apparatus according to  claim 10 , wherein the rotation driving section includes a motor connected to the at least two clamping portions so that operation of the motor results in rotation of the at least two clamping portions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15136397', '15136269', '15136435', '15789592', '15282087']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8370950350281757
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5573334816363632
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8091188796889944
- Mean Citation Score: 328.10385
- Max Citation Score: 421.96228
- Similarity Product: 352.2266486408615

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test