PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15741656
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["514", "028000"]

Abstract:
The present inventors provides one or more of a tiacumicin compound, a stereo-isomer thereof, a polymorph thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate thereof for use in the oral treatment of  Clostridium difficile  infections (CDI) or  Clostridium difficile -associated disease (CDAD) in a patient according to a dosage regimen comprising: (1) administering to the patient in an initial course of treatment 200 mg of the tiacumicin compound twice a day; (2) monitoring the efficacy of the initial course of treatment in the patient by means of monitoring changes of one or more indicators of CDI or CDAD; (3) assessing whether there is a positive change of the one or the more of the indicators; and (4) switching to an intermittent course of treatment by administering to the patient 200 mg of the tiacumicin compound every other day if the one or the more of the indicators of CDI or CDAD are positively changed. Further the invention provides the use of the tiacumicin compound to reduce recurrence in a patient suffering from CDI or CDAD.

Claim (Index 8):
The method according to  claim 7 , wherein the consistency of the stool shows an improvement from type 7 or type 6 to type 4 according to the Bristol stool form scale.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38272
- Patent Class: 514.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15309992', '14539214', '15500377', '13978965', '13509818']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7915615206567175
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5617787319298184
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7685832417840276
- Mean Citation Score: 351.007246
- Max Citation Score: 571.9016
- Similarity Product: 293.4262284070016

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

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