PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16197674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["424", "722000"]

Abstract:
Methods and compositions are provided for treating neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, attention deficit disorder, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and bipolar disorder. The methods entail administering to a patient diagnosed as having a neuropsychiatric disorder (e.g., schizophrenia, depression, attention deficit disorder, mild cognitive impairment, dementia bipolar disorder, etc.) or as at risk for a neuropsychiatric disorder a benzoic acid, benzoic acid salt, and/or benzoic acid derivative, and/or a sorbic acid, sorbic acid salt, and/or sorbic acid derivative, in combination with a neuropharmacological agent (e.g., an antipsychotic, an antidepressant, medications for attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, cognitive impairment, or dementia, etc.) where the benzoic acid, benzoic acid salt, or benzoic acid derivative, and/or a sorbic acid, sorbic acid salt, and/or sorbic acid derivative, is in an amount sufficient to increase the efficacy of the neuropharmacological agent.

Claim (Index 70):
The method of  claim 69 , wherein the antidepressant is selected from the group consisting of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA), a tetracyclic antidepressant (TeCA), a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), a noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressant (NASSA), a norepinephrine (noradrenaline) reuptake inhibitor (NRI), a norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor, and a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74603
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15409775', '14552298', '15409655', '12689957', '16119439']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8520785779304625
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5893153312723735
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8258022532646536
- Mean Citation Score: 530.6840540000002
- Max Citation Score: 636.76544
- Similarity Product: 411.1389352633667

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

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