PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16385440
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["053", "433000"]

Abstract:
A method of packaging a ready to use intermittent urinary catheter by (i) placing lubricant within a pocket formed in a base film proximate a first end of the pocket, (ii) placing a catheter within the pocket with the insertion end of the catheter proximate the first end of the pocket, (iii) partially sealing the catheter within the pocket between the base film and a cover film, (iv) pulling a vacuum within the pocket to effect controlled circumferential flow of lubricant around the insertion end portion of the catheter, and then (v) fully sealing the pocket.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 1  wherein the cover film is a planar sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15130337', '16111779', '15067717', '15642431', '15707817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7701057553821973
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5271801474469113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7458131945886688
- Mean Citation Score: 244.44015200000004
- Max Citation Score: 360.28113
- Similarity Product: 236.56909328204875

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

Dataset: test