PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16272984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["206", "210000"]

Abstract:
A method of preparing a ready-to-use catheter by providing a catheter assembly that has a first compartment that includes a catheter therein. The catheter includes on at least a part of its surface an exterior coating designed to reduce the coefficient of friction after treatment with a liquid swelling medium, and a second compartment containing a liquid swelling medium. The method includes sterilising the catheter assembly, adding the liquid swelling medium to the first compartment for wetting/activating the exterior coating of the catheter, and storing the ready-to-use catheter. By using the method according to the invention, the sterilisation of the catheter is effectuated in a dry-state, ensuring that the known problems with wet-sterilisation are completely eliminated and the need for preparing complicated and expensive liquid swelling mediums are no longer required.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of preparing a ready-to-use catheter, said method comprising:\n providing a catheter assembly, comprising\n i. a catheter disposed in a first location, said catheter comprises on at least a part of its surface an exterior coating arranged to reduce the coefficient of friction after treatment with a swelling medium, and \n ii. a swelling medium disposed in a second location, said catheter assembly being wrapped or placed in a gas-impermeable package, said method comprises the steps of: \n sterilising the catheter assembly, transferring the swelling medium to the first location under sterile conditions inside the sterile boundaries of the catheter assembly for wetting/activating the catheter's exterior coating, wherein said transferring occurs when the catheter assembly is in one or more production facilities, and storing the ready-to-use catheter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97183
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14438589', '15840571', '10026819', '12003230', '13603433']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7966124604245556
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4804839680617192
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.764999611188272
- Mean Citation Score: 196.218092
- Max Citation Score: 248.63068
- Similarity Product: 209.9637942125273

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

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