PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901637
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["424", "009200"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a prebiotic composition comprising a microbially produced oligosaccharide, wherein the oligosaccharide is characterised by being selective for a pre-determined probiotic bacterial strain and also capable of being produced by the pre-determined probiotic bacteria by reverse enzyme action. The present invention also relates to methods of screening a composition suitable for use as a prebiotic and methods for screening of prebiotics for incorporation into synbiotic formulations.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of screening for a symbiotic formulation comprising the steps:\n (a) assembling a panel of probiotic bacterial strains; (b) selecting strains found to have oligosacharride activity; (c) inducing the selected probiotic strains to produce the oligosacharride prebiotic composition by reverse enzyme reaction; (d) isolating the oligosaccharide prebiotic compositions for each selected strain; (e) combining each selected strain and corresponding isolated oligosaccharide prebiotic composition in a formulation; and (f) assessing the improved growth and/or survivability of the selected probiotic bacterial strain for each formulation in a gut model and identifying the formulation showing improved growth and/or survivability; wherein the probiotic bacterial strain comprises a  Lactobacillus plantarum  strain; and wherein the oligosaccharide comprises galacto oligosaccharide (GOS) and the GOS is substantially the same as the form produced by reverse \u03b2-galactosidase reaction in the probiotic bacterial strain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65909
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15034420', '15034448', '15034492', '14639734', '12281448']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7422438181463282
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6642384829071857
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.734443284622414
- Mean Citation Score: 483.668554
- Max Citation Score: 782.14435
- Similarity Product: 597.8918443467497

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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